Companies donate school supplies

BROOMFIELD – Amgen Inc. and Chavez Calibrations International Inc. achieved top honors for providing the most corporate assistance to Crayons to Calculators, a nonprofit collaboration to provide school supplies to Boulder Valley students in need.

The biopharmaceutical firm Amgen with operations in Boulder and Longmont provided the most overall assistance, and testing laboratory Chavez, based in Lafayette,  provided the most assistance as a percentage of employees.

ClickBank, Mod Moms North, Polycom and the St. Vrain Valley Credit Union also received honorable mention plaques for their participation.

The second annual Crayons to Calculators Corporate Challenge attracted 31 corporations that provided backpacks of school supplies,…