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BILL AND MELINDA GATES, whose foundation has poured $10 million into a Colorado program testing ways to combine new state standards and teacher evaluations, flew here this week on a semi-secret visit to assess how the work has progressed, The Denver Post reported. On Monday, they visited Eagle County, one of 13 districts participating in the Integration Project, a collaborative effort by the Colorado Legacy Foundation.
COLORADO CITED BY NEW KENTUCKY GROUP. Kentucky is about to officially start a nonprofit education foundation modeled after one in Colorado and aimed at attracting funding for innovative school programs. State Education Commissioner Terry Holliday on Wednesday will deliver paperwork to the secretary of state’s office incorporating the new Fund for Transforming Education.
OVER $1.5 MILLION was raised at the Global Down Syndrome Foundation’s 2012 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel to benefit the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome. The gala was sold out, with 1,200 people in attendance, including football legends Pat and Annabel Bowlen, and John and Paige Elway.
BOULDER’S ETOWN has landed a $2 million loan from Public Radio Capital in Boulder to fund construction of its new offices and its eTown Hall.
ADVERTISE YOUR EVENT on Blacktie-Colorado for just $150 a week. Email Brett McCann-Lehl at brett@blacktie-llc.com.
THE DENVER CSU ALUMNI NETWORK is looking for projects in the first half of 2013 to participate in as a volunteer group. Email: knpohly@yahoo.com
LATEST ‘CAPTURED EVENTS’ ON BLACKTIE
October 13, 2012 – “Be Beautiful Be Yourself” Continues to Shine
October 01, 2012 – Stories of Hope: Alternatives to Family Violence
October 13, 2012 – 2nd Annual GIVE Denver Masquerade Ball
HONORED: Janet Fieldman, chief foundation officer of the Pueblo Community Health Center Foundation, has been named the 2012 Outstanding Advocate of the Underserved Award by the Community Health Association of the Mountain/Plains States.
HITTING THE TRAIL: Nonprofit bicycle advocacy organization Community Cycles will host the Mountain States Bike! Bike! Conference March 19 through March 21 in Boulder.
BLACKTIE’S SISTER COMPANY, Efficient Tickets, is now selling tickets for the Halloween Masquerade Ball, an Oct. 26 Halloween party to raise money for the survivors of the Aurora and Columbine Tragedy. It’s hosted by Phoenix999 a non-profit charity created by the survivors of the Columbine Tragedy and by Friends of Humanity a local volunteer group that helps local charities raise money.
CONSIDER EFFICIENT TICKETS for your next ticketed event. Online ticketing is inexpensive, consumer-friendly and provides your organization with valuable purchasing and entrance data. Contact Brett McCann-Lehl at 303-339-3819.
NOTABLE NAMES: Former governors Ritter, Owens addressed Colorado Nonprofit Association conference.
VIOLATION? In what appears to be a violation of its tax exempt status as an organization governed under section 501(c)3 of the IRS code, New Era Colorado dropped campaign literature advocating the election of specific candidates. The “Voting Guide” provided by New Era Colorado lists Democratic candidates in state and federal elections who have received the “thumbs up” from New Era Colorado.
STADIUM GOLF took on a new meaning for Phil Mickelson, who overshot the big money targets on his 100-yard shot at halftime of Monday night’s Broncos-Chargers game. He still raised $50,000 for First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides new books for needy children. Had he hit one of the concentric rings in the middle of the green in the “KPMG Chip4Charity” promotion, Mickelson could have raised anywhere from $100,000 to $1 million for the charity.
HAVING TROUBLE MANAGING DONATION REQUESTS? Blacktie can set up a website for your business or organization that makes it easy for you to be responsive to charity requests and carefully manage all aspects of the process. Here’s a request page we set up for a local company. For information about BT Donation Tracker, call Don Knox at 720-272-0961.
USTA SERVES, the charitable entity of the United States Tennis Association, has awarded the Boulder branch of the I Have a Dream Foundation one of its 24 year-end grants under its “Aces for Kids” umbrella.
DID YOU KNOW? You can advertise your nonprofit event easily and affordably to 300,000 readers in the 17 Colorado Community Media newspapers from Thornton to Castle Rock? Blacktie offers discounted rates to organizations that have not previously advertised in the CCM publications. These publications include Arvada Press, Castle Rock News-Press, Centennial Citizen, Douglas County News-Press, Englewood Herald, Golden Transcript, Highlands Ranch Herald, Lakewood Sentinel, Littleton Independent, Lone Tree Voice, Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel, Parker Chronicle, Westminster Window, Westsider and Wheat Ridge Transcript. Call Brett McCann-Lehl or Don Knox at 303-832-2903 for more details!
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