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Ride The Rockies Route Announcement Party

Be among the first to know the route the RTR cyclists will ride June 10 – 17, 2017! Join us on February 4 at the McNichols Civic Center Building for a great party with a great auction! Proceeds benefit The Denver Post Community Foundation.     For more information on The Denver Post Ride The Rockies […]

Congratulations MSU Denver Foundation

Congratulations to Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation’s Family Literacy Program for their $5,000 grant presented at Denver Post Pen & Podium on November 14, 2016. Pictured from left to right are Janine Jackson, Adam Million and Program Director, Dr. Adriann Wycoff, MSU Denver; award winning author, Lauren Groff; and Tracy Ulmer, The Denver Post […]

Attention Spellers: It’s Time For Your School To Sign Up!

The Denver Post Colorado State Spelling Bee is scheduled for Saturday, March 11, 2017. Colorado schools that are interested in participating, need to register for the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee program no later than January 30, 2017. Proceeds of The Denver Post Colorado State Spelling Bee benefit The Denver Post Community Foundation.    For […]

Season To Share – Make Your Gifts Go Further This Holiday Season

The Denver Post Season To Share Holiday Campaign is underway! We are so grateful to our generous community for helping support those who need it most. Each donation given will be matched at 50% by the McCormick Foundation.  Through The Denver Post Season To Share, a McCormick Foundation Fund, grants are made to local nonprofit […]

The Denver Post ACTS – Employees Give Back

On Saturday, November 12, 33 Denver Post ACTS (Assisting the Community Through Service) employee volunteers, with their family and friends, spent their morning volunteering at Food Bank of the Rockies. All in all a total of 102.5 hours of community service was spent helping make our community a better place. The group processed over 12,240 […]

Thank You Trans-Siberian Orchestra!

On Saturday, November 19 the Trans-Siberian Orchestra presented a generous $16,282.00 check to The Denver Post Community Foundation in support of Basket of Joy, our program produced in partnership with Volunteers of America and Safeway and sponsored by Denver Mattress and InnovAge. This donation will help enrich the lives of more than 5,280 home-bound and isolated […]

Congratulations to Colorado Humanities

On Monday, September 26, 2016, The Denver Post Community Foundation was pleased to present a $5,000 grant to support the Motheread/Fatheread program. Colorado Humanities is one of five organizations focused on literacy that will be recognized at The Denver Post Pen & Podium Series. Pictured from left to right are Vera Atilano, Motheread/Fatheread Program Coordinator; Josephine […]

Sign Up to Volunteer for Basket of Joy!

The Denver Post Basket of Joy, produced in partnership with Volunteers of America and Safeway, and sponsored by Denver Mattress and InnovAge is Saturday, December 10, 2016. Co-founded in 1983 by former Denver Post columnist Woody Paige, the Basket of Joy program continues to bring joy in the form of a holiday fruit basket to […]

Congratulations to Colorado 4-H

The Denver Post Community Foundation and Pedal The Plains were proud to present a $7,000 grant to Colorado 4-H on Saturday, September 17 in La Junta, Colorado in support of their mission and dedication to youth.