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St. Maryâs Medical Center is doing a solid for Colorado Mesa University in its attempt to build a new health sciences building.
The hospital is to announce later today that it is donating $3 million to the university to help build its new Health Sciences Center, construction for which has already begun and is expected to be completed by the fall.
It is not only the largest donation CMU has ever received, but it also is the largest single donation the hospital has ever given.
âIf you look at both St. Maryâs and CMU, you can almost say in the same sentence that what we do is not just for the Grand Valley, but for the region in terms of serving patient care and students,â CMU President Tim Foster said Tuesday.
Elizabeth Hoffner and
Dakota Cody Hurst have been promoted to new roles by El Pomar Foundation of Colorado Springs. Shields was promoted from vice president to senior vice president of leadership and director of the foundation s fellowship program. Miller was promoted from associate vice president to vice president of information technology. Budler was promoted from maintenance technician to caretaker of the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun. Palmer was promoted from a fellow to deputy director of regional partnerships. Hoffner was promoted from a fellow to deputy director of the fellowship program. Hurst was promoted from part-time to full-time assistant at the shrine.
By Megan Sanders
El Pomar Foundation
Since March, 26 organizations in southwestern Colorado have received grants from El Pomar Foundation’s Colorado Assistance Fund (CAF).
Now entering into its third phase, the fund was activated in March to provide immediate aid to nonprofit organizations and government entities meeting basic human needs and supporting access to appropriate health care for individuals and communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The initial $1 million CAF funding was established by the foundation’s trustees on March 9, within a week of Colorado’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, and supported 175 unique organizations in 48 counties of Colorado with grant amounts ranging from $1,000 to $25,000.
Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room, looking out on a cemetery.
But it wasn’t her verses about death or isolation that kept floating to mind for Scott, rather it was Dickinson’s writing on hope.
“’Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” the lines begin, “/ That perches in the soul / And sings the song without the words / And never stops at all -”
With that uplifting vision in mind, Scott has now given away $4,158,500,000 to organizations helping bring hope to those most devastated by the virus. Her generosity includes a $20 million gift to Mile High United Way in Denver, and a $15 million gift to Goodwill of Colorado. Each of those two gifts is the largest in the more than 100-year history of either nonprofit.