April 1, 2016 6:00:42 am

Nonprofit Network, April 1, 2016

By BizWest Staff

BRIEFS

The Larimer County Office on Aging will host an awards ceremony on May 12 to honor one outstanding senior volunteer and one outstanding family caregiver. Nominations from the public are being sought and must be postmarked by April 7. Nomination forms and criteria for the awards can be found at Larimer.org/seniors or by calling the Office on Aging at 970-498-7751.

The annual Project Homeless Connect is scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon April 8 at the Northside Aztlan Center, 112 Willow St. in Fort Collins, offering a range of free services to people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The event includes a free breakfast and barbecue lunch. Nearly 60 local nonprofits, government agencies and businesses will provide onsite services. Homeward 2020, Bohemian Foundation, the Murphy Center and Colorado State University Student Leadership, Involvement and Community Engagement (SLiCE) co-produce the event with support from United Way of Larimer County.

FUNDRAISERS

Fort Collins-based Black Bottle Brewery, CooperSmith’s Pub and Brewing, Fort Collins Brewery, Funkwerks, Horse and Dragon Brewing Co., Jessup Farm Barrel House, McClellan’s Brewing Co., New Belgium Brewing Co., Odell Brewing Co., Old Colorado Brewing Co., Pateros Creek Brewing Co. and Three Four Beer Co. are tapping their resources for The House That Beer Built II, a collaborative community initiative with Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity to build a home in partnership with the Beavers family. This year’s goal is to raise $100,000 for the family home. Each brewery will fundraise through various events through August. They will build alongside the home buyers onsite beginning in August. The Brewers Olympics on June 18 at Go West T-shirt Co., which donated shirts and printing for the project, will benefit the project, as will a salmon bake at Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar. Mishawaka will donate a portion of concert ticket sales in June to HTBBII and will co-host a benefit concert July 6 at the CSU Lagoon. The Farmhouse will donate proceeds from its Chicken & Givin’ fried chicken platter from 4 to 9 p.m. on Sundays throughout May. Fundraisers also will be held in May at The Moot House and Wilbur’s Total Beverage. Townsquare Media will support the project with fundraising events and public service announcements. The community is also invited to volunteer; registration can be done at FortCollinsHabitat.org. The Beavers family will complete 250 hours of “sweat equity” helping to build the home in Avondale Cottages, a part of the Ridgewood Hills neighborhood; it is expected to be completed by winter. Donations can be made at https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/fortcollinshabitat.

SPONSORED CONTENT

Chefs sliced 750 pounds of avocado, 200 pounds of tomatoes, 120 pounds of cheese and hundreds of pounds of meat on Feb. 29 at the Casa Del Matador grand opening celebration at 341 E. Foothills Parkway, Suite 110, across from the Cinemark movie theater in the newly renovated Foothills shopping area in Fort Collins. The event raised $5,000 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County.

GRANTS

Community Food Share received a $56,989 grant from Hunger Is, a joint charitable initiative of The Albertsons Companies Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, to help address childhood hunger locally. Community Food Share will use the grant to purchase nutritious, whole-grain cereal as a part of the food bank’s Healthy Breakfast Initiative targeting low-income children in Boulder and Broomfield counties.

Express Employment Professionals and its franchise location in Longmont, owned by Todd and Janet Isaacson, are donating $10,000 to OUR Center, a local organization that provides a variety of resources including emergency assistance for food, rent, utilities and shelter. The donation is part of The Impact Project, an initiative of the company’s philanthropic committee, designed to give back to nonprofits nominated by franchisees among their more than 760 franchise locations.

The Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County announced grants totaling $48,000 from the Littler Youth Fund. This is the fund’s 121st distribution to various youth-oriented programs. Grants were awarded to A Woman’s Place for a children’s program, Centennial BOCES/Migrant Christmas Fiesta Committee for its Migrant Family Literacy Project, Greeley Area Habitat for Humanity for the Jefferson High School Construction Management Pathway in Geometry, the Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Center for its SART Peers program, the UNC Foundation for its NoCO Math Circles program and United Way of Weld County for its RITE program.