Community Foundation of Northern Colorado reaches $100M mark

FORT COLLINS — It all comes back to the Lincoln Center. Forty-two years ago, the city of Fort Collins was trying to convert the former junior high school at the corner of Magnolia and Mulberry Streets into a space for performance arts.

It just needed private funding, and to that end, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado was born.

“It had a rather limited vision,” Ray Caraway, the foundation’s president for the last 14 years, said.

The foundation initially had no staff, and like many of the thousands of similar community funds around…