Maddie’s Fund, a national family foundation, has awarded Denver Animal Protection $50,000 for a new pilot program to help keep people and their pets together in homes.
Nonprofits
Jesse Ogas knows results aren’t going to come overnight, but the executive director of Firefly Autism is confident that a movement to do for Autism Spectrum Disorders what the Sie and Whitten families have done for Down syndrome is going to change the way the world sees – and funds – this complicated disorder affecting one in every 54 children in Colorado.
The Denver nonprofit Children’s Opportunity Foundation has donated $10 million to Aurora Public Schools and the Aurora Public Schools Foundation for the construction of a state-of-the-art sports complex.
It will be the only exhibit of its kind in the United States to share the history of the massacre from the viewpoint of Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members.
Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined 16 other top prosecutors in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge by conservative groups to state laws that require reporting of nonprofits' major donors.
Colorado Oil & Gas Association
The Colorado Business Roundtable, the coalition of top executives, is adding four board members: Jeff Bloomquist, Brenda Egger, David K. Schunk and Chris Wright.