Candidates announced for BBB ethics awards

FORT COLLINS — Sixteen businesses and 12 nonprofits from Northern Colorado and Wyoming are candidates for the 2025 Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Ethics.

Award winners are selected by an independent panel of judges composed of BBB board members, past Torch Award winners, and community leaders. Winning organizations — four businesses and two nonprofits — will be recognized during BBB’s Celebration of Ethics, scheduled for April 22 at Embassy Suites in Loveland.

The awards are being presented for the 27th year locally by the BBB Serving Northern Colorado and Wyoming Foundation. To be eligible for an award, an organization must be in business at least three years and be in good standing with the Better Business Bureau (a B rating or better, no unresolved complaints, free from government action. Nonprofits must have completed the BBB Charity Accreditation process.

During the application period, interested organizations completed their own applications based on BBB’s four-point Torch Awards criteria:

• Character: Do the leaders of the organization behave intentionally and communicate with their leadership team, employees, customers and stakeholders in a way that is consistent with their beliefs?
• Culture: Does the organization work toward a culture of trust through clarity of purpose, empowering employees, and opportunities for growth?
• Customers: Does the organization employ consistent internal practices to build better customer relationships?
• Community: Does the organization have programs, contributions and activities that return value to and support its community?

Business candidates from Fort Collins include All Star Cleaning Services, Choice Moving Co., HighCraft Builders, Integrated Computer Consulting and WaterPik.

Loveland-based business candidates include CorKat Data Solutions, Imprint Digital, Maven and Muse Media, Meyer Natural Foods and Pride Roofing and Solar.

Other business candidates include DaVinci Sign Systems and Masters Petersen Flooring and Design of Windsor, Endurance Roofing and Contracting of Brighton, T Bare Roofing of Greeley, Steammaster Restoration and Cleaning of Minturn and Fashion Crossroads of Casper, Wyoming.

Nonprofit candidates from Fort Collins include ChildSafe Colorado, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado (now NoCo Foundation), Pathways Hospice, Table Tennis Connections and Unified Workforce.

Other nonprofit candidates include Be The Gift and McKee Wellness Foundation of Loveland, the Estes Valley Crisis Advocates in Estes Park, Evans-based Envision and United Way of the Yampa Valley in Steamboat Springs. Two Wyoming-based nonprofits also made the list: K9s 4 Mobility in Cheyenne and Safe Project in Bosler.

Entities wishing to support the 2025 edition of the ethics awards can contact Jami Jonckowski-Wiens at 970-488-2048 or jami@wynco.bbb.org.

The Better Business Bureau Foundation Serving Northern Colorado and Wyoming is a 501(c)(3) education foundation that provides ethics-based assessment, training and recognition programs for businesses, nonprofits, consumers and students.

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