Nonprofits – January 2017

FUNDRAISERS

Foothills United Way, serving Boulder and Broomfield counties, collected $22,746 on Colorado Gives Day, Dec. 6. The organization will use the funds to help make housing attainable for all, build community resilience, and strengthen families for early childhood success.

GRANTS

First Nations Development Institute in Longmont received a $200,000 grant that will be used to help Native American farmers, ranchers and tribal communities advance their businesses and improve control of community-food systems. Under the grant, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, First Nations will conduct various in-person trainings and workshops, plus online webinars.

Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder received $3.7 million in donations to support the school’s Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program, a course that explores property rights, social responsibility and ethics, entrepreneurship, trade and the rule of law and their influences on global markets both in advanced and emerging economies, including the work of Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto. The donations will be used to hire tenure- and nontenure-track faculty for the program. Donors include the El Pomar Foundation of Colorado Springs, the Charles Koch Foundation and longtime CU Boulder supporters George Solich, through his foundation The Solich Fund, and Buz and Sherri Koelbel. Previously, CU Boulder alumni William and Jane Reynolds funded an initial endowment of a little more than $2 million and an additional $1.2 million over three years in operating funds. To date, the program has received $6.9 million in support. Leeds also has received a pledge of nearly $6 million from Tandean Rustandy, a 1987 Leeds graduate and founder and chief executive of one of the world’s largest ceramic tile manufacturing company in Indonesia. Of that pledge, $800,000 will advance strategic initiatives and strengthen core offerings in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation and design within the business school and collaboration across campus; $1.5 million will establish an endowed professorship in global entrepreneurship and innovation with $500,000 of current funds to award immediately; and $3.1 million will establish an endowed chair in global entrepreneurship and strategy.

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