4:55 pm, Apr 4, 2012
So, you've always wanted to be a park ranger. Turns out you can, if you sport a helmet. The ever-exploding bicycling population in Colorado has reached into the parks and trails surrounding the metro area. In an effort to demonstrate polite and legal cycling, BikeDenver has paired with Denver Parks and Recreation to find a rank of bicycle...
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9:01 am, Mar 28, 2012
You've heard of "eating local," but have you thought about "giving local?" While national organizations have their benefits, the transparency and direct effects of donating to a local charity can’t be ignored. Organizations like Sense of Security and AMC Cancer Fund are doing work that benefits cancer patients in Colorado. SENSE OF...
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3:58 am, Mar 28, 2012
2,218Number of new and gently used pieces of sports equipment giveSPORTS has donated to disadvantaged children since the nonprofit started in March 2011. Make it your spring-cleaning goal to bring your used gear to giveSPORTS’ parent organization, A Precious Child. For drop-off locations, visit apreciouschild.org.
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11:35 am, Mar 21, 2012
On June 16, four local women will embark on a 3,000-mile bike trek from Oceanside, California to Annapolis, Maryland with 170,000 feet of vertical climbing. The team, Love, Sweat & Gears, hopes to complete the Race Across America (which claims to be “the world’s toughest bicycle race”) in less than seven days. Team member Julie...
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3:17 pm, Mar 14, 2012
For South American countries, like El Salvador, the coffee industry is crucial for the survival and well-being of many families. Farms, nestled within a luscious, tropical landscape, provide much of the coffee that Americans drink on a daily basis. So when brothers Tim and Tommy Thwaites—who own Denver-based Coda Coffee—visit an international...
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4:55 pm, Mar 7, 2012
At just over a year old, Broomfield’s MuttSavers Rescue isn’t much older than the puppies the nonprofit saves. But through a network of families who foster and adopt mutts, dogs that would end up wandering the streets or perpetually in shelters are placed in permanent homes. The organization, which also works with older dogs, runs mostly on...
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4:01 pm, Feb 29, 2012
Every morning, on my walk from Market Street station to work, I am greeted by a vendor selling the Denver VOICE, a monthly paper about homeless issues. It’s sold on the street by people who have become homeless and have few opportunities to find regular work. Selling the newspaper is a way for them to make a living. Sometimes, the vendor...
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6:20 pm, Feb 22, 2012
When I was 12, I went to the salon for a ho-hum haircut—but left with 12 inches less of hair. I wasn't having a Sinead O'Connor moment: My hairstylist convinced me to chop off my mane for Locks of Love, a national nonprofit organization that serves children who suffer from long-term medical hair loss. As she prepared to shear, she told me about...
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12:57 pm, Feb 16, 2012
It’s a daunting figure, but Littleton-based nonprofit Doctors Care is trying to address the problem. Nine hundred physicians donate their time to the organization to treat more than 5,500 patients in Douglas, Arapahoe, and Elbert counties who lack private insurance. Lend a hand by contributing financially, committing some office hours, or, for...
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12:14 pm, Jan 24, 2012
Denver’s Better Business Bureau Foundation—the nonprofit, outreach division of the bureau—is expanding its year-old Smarts Program to benefit both students and area businesses. Originally launched to teach office skills to local high schoolers, the program is shifting to a full-service internship hub that pairs high school juniors and seniors with...
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4:39 pm, Nov 10, 2011
A schedule that includes showing up at a Starz Denver Film Festival screening, watching a documentary, hearing the symphony, then capping the evening off by potentially saving a life is no small feat. But that's what happened last night.The joint venture between the film festival and the Colorado Symphony screened More to Live For, a dramatic look...
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6:50 am, Apr 30, 2011
A year ago, Andrew Fonseca was a 19-year-old gang member with a bleak future in Dallas. But when he woke up in the hospital after getting jumped this past summer, he was sent to Colorado to live with an uncle and to attend an alternative school. What happened next was unheard of in Fonseca’s circles: He joined the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (RMYC...
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7:09 pm, Aug 28, 2010
Three-year-old Bicycles for Humanity, a Denver-based nonprofit, extends Colorado's two-wheeled obsession overseas by collecting used bikes to send to Namibia, Africa. Shipping containers—bulging with nearly 400 rides—float to partner organizations. Some bikes are given to mobile health-care workers and school children, while the rest become...
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7:09 pm, Aug 28, 2010
Over the past 11 years, 69-year-old Daniel Mosley has seen his fair share of Colorado heartache. He talked with survivors in the aftermath of the Columbine massacre, helped victims create action plans when tornadoes hit the towns of Holly and Windsor, and counseled passengers after the Continental plane crash at Denver International Airport in...
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11:54 am, Jul 27, 2010
For the past several weeks, I’ve been telling people I’m going to be embedded with the troops. I’m not headed to Iraq or Afghanistan. I’m bound for some hilly terrain along the Front Range, where troops, former troops, and their civilian buddies---up to 200 cyclists---will hop on road bikes and pedal for more than 320 miles over six days. Ride 2...
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