Community Shares of Colorado Giving Circle
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Please join us in supporting the Community Shares of Colorado 2008 Community Giving Campaign! In the coming months we will work with 150 Colorado businesses to offer paycheck contribution giving to more than 220,000 employees. Due to the tough economy, our member agencies need workplace giving support more than ever!
Community Shares raised $10 for local nonprofits for every dollar we spent on the Giving Campaign in 2007.Thanks to a generous gift from the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado, any new or increased gift made to Community Shares will be matched dollar for dollar!
Get twice the bang for your buck and support Colorado philanthropy by joining our giving circle and making a donation!
 | Community Shares of Colorado Community Shares is a community giving fund dedicated to connecting Coloradans to the charities and causes they care about most. Offering incremental giving options like paycheck contribution campaigns at your workplace and My Colorado Project, Community Shares is changing the definition of the word philanthropist to include all who wish to give. Read More >> |
From 9News:
LONGMONT - For a woman who was evacuated from her home because of a wildfire, Nancy Harpin is unusually happy.
"I'm delighted," she said after petting her two Golden Retrievers, Indy and Callie.
Moments later, she handed the animals over to workers at the Longmont Humane Society.
Awful and cruel behavior squashed by Community Shares' member Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Thank you GWRC.
We as philanthropists know how much giving back means to us. Our reasons for giving are varied but our common belief is that we wish to make our community a better place. Along the path to building a better community many philanthropists find that we too have become better people. We find that what was once an act of community investment becomes an investment in ourselves, and
Great article on denverpost.com about the effort to bring an aquaponics project to north Denver.
Let them fish! Let them fish!
This is an article sent to me about the rise in Giving Circles. We hope My Colorado is a great support of these trends and will give people an effecient and fun outlet for philanthropy.
On Friday, April 17 Community Shares of Colorado announced that it received a challenge grant from the Gay & Lesbian Fund for $12,500. Thisw past year Community Shares met its challenge grant goal of $10,000 early thanks to our tremendous supporters.
While these methodologies apply specifically to blogging they also have relevance to your overall participation. Please consider them when editing your My Colorado webpages.
+ Say it with me: "2009 is the year I finally (insert resolution here)". A New Year has arrived and with it the annual self reflection. For many, the turn of the calendar signals hope and the vow to correct our vices and mistakes of the year gone by. I am no exception and I thought it appropriate to share my New Year's resolution with you.
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