el pomar foundation
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El Pomar releases $1.5 million for food assistance to Colorado communities
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El Pomar Foundation is releasing $1.5 million in immediate aid for food assistance that will be distributed to 112 nonprofit organizations across Colorado this week, the organization announced Monday. The move is in response to “increasing food prices and growing food insecurity, as well as recent suspension of federal funding to critical food systems,” according…
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Air Force Academy receives record $51.7M in 2022 donations
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Donors contributed a record $51.7 million to support Air Force Academy initiatives in 2022. Over 7,500 graduates, parents, families, foundations and corporations contributed funds through the Air Force Academy Foundation, bolstering the total investment in the Defining Our Future campaign to $248.26 million. Defining Our Future campaigns for private funding to support and develop academy…
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El Pomar marks 85th anniversary by surpassing $700 million in statewide charitable grants, community programs
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Few Coloradans alive today knew high-profile community benefactors Julie and Spencer Penrose, but the charitable groundwork the couple laid in the first half of last century is familiar to every generation since. “One thing the trustees try to do every year and with every grant they make is to honor the intent of our donors,…
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‘Aaron Harber Show’ to air Colorado Politics gubernatorial debate
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“The Aaron Harber Show” is set to air Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates’ debate in Colorado Springs starting this Sunday. Harber and yours truly asked the questions in the Colorado Civic Barbecue May 19, presented by the El Pomar Foundation’s Forum for Civic Advancement, The Gazette and Colorado Politics. Harber will air the Republicans –…
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INSIGHTS | Serving up politics with food’s a tradition
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COLORADO SPRINGS – On a rainy Saturday at the foot of Pikes Peak, hundreds of politically engaged Coloradans gathered for politics slathered in tradition to hear candidates for governor answer questions. We had a Colorado Civic Barbecue on May 19, presented by the El Pomar Foundation’s Forum for Civic Advancement, The Gazette and Colorado Politics.…
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Polis basks in the limelight of a Trump tweet
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In a sense, President Donald Trump did U.S. Rep. Jared Polis a big favor Monday when he called out the Democrat running for Colorado governor on Twitter. Trump didn’t call Polis by name, but the Boulder millionaire was glad to take credit for the New York billionaire’s ire. Polis tweeted back, and Tuesday morning his…
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Study examines the question, ‘What is the secret to rural economic resiliency?’
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The smaller, rural counties of Colorado often experience a different – many would say less healthy – economic reality than most of the state’s population in the more heavily populated Front Range counties. While that may not be news, a recent study details what residents of those smaller counties have found helps them be economically resilient. The…
