November 30, 2011
A landmark 2001 $35 million endowment gift by the Leeds family to the University of Colorado Boulder was celebrated at a surprise 10th anniversary dinner Tuesday at the Hotel Boulderado.
November 14, 2011
The University of Colorado Foundation has launched Creating Futures magazine, which aims to celebrate philanthropy at CU and generate enthusiasm and support for CU’s $1.5 billion Creating Futures fundraising campaign.
November 11, 2011
The John E. and Margaret L. Lane Foundation and Margot Lane of Colorado Springs will donate $4 million to the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Peak Vista Community Health Centers to build an academic health sciences building on North Nevada Avenue.
November 7, 2011
The University of Colorado Foundation has named Kurt Gulbrand as an assistant vice president and associate athletic director for development, effective November 7, 2011.
October 17, 2011
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Tim Tebow Foundation in partnership with XV Enterprises will use the foundation’s weekly charity eBay auction to auction off a pair of game worn pink cleats that Tebow wore during the Denver Broncos vs. Tennessee Titans game on October 3, 2010. The auction will be known as “cleats for a cure” and all of the funds raised will go towards breast cancer research at the Anschutz Medical Campus.
October 3, 2011
Individual, corporate, and foundation gifts and grants toward Creating Futures have now exceeded $1 billion—surpassing a major milestone in CU’s most ambitious fundraising campaign ever, the $1.5 billion Creating Futures.
September 19, 2011
Members of the Board of Directors have fiduciary oversight of the CU Foundation; Mary Lee Beauregard is the chair, and Carl (“Spike”) Eklund is the vice chair. Members of the Board of Trustees serve as volunteer leaders of the Foundation through their contributions of private support and advocacy for the University of Colorado.
September 13, 2011
Cancer League of Colorado has filled a unique niche throughout its 43 years, providing seed grants for promising yet untested cancer research projects—the types of grants no other funder offers on a systematic basis in the Rocky Mountain region.
August 26, 2011
It has recently come to the attention of the University of Colorado that door-to-door magazine salespeople have been falsely representing themselves as members of a “CU orchestra” raising money for a trip to Europe. Colorado Springs is one of the cities in which these impostors have been spotted in recent weeks.
July 28, 2011
The University of Colorado Foundation has named Robb Pike as Vice President for Development, effective August 22. Pike will lead the University of Colorado Colorado Springs’s development activities and manage the Foundation’s local staff of seven.
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