Impact

Creating Community Sustainability

Advancing the Arts

Innovative Education

  • Venetucci Farm/Pinello Ranch (focused on local food, nutrition, wellness, health, sustainability, etc.)

  • Aspen Valley Ranch (wide variety of workshops, classes, seminars)

  • Peak Education (mentoring and scholarship support for talented, underserved students in Harrison District 2)

  • Scholarship Funds (variety of types)

Promoting Conservation

  • Pikes Peak Conservation Fund (primarily dedicated to open space, conservation easements, catalyst for overall conservation efforts)

  • Mary Starsmore Fund (dedicated to Starsmore Center, N. Cheyenne Canon Park, Stratton Open Space)

Creating Local Community Impact

  • Strengthening Neighborhoods Initiative

  • UpaDowna - a PPCF initiative whose mission is to raise awareness and appreciation for the outdoors by providing fun and educational adventures for all ages and experience levels.

Encouraging Social Entrepreneurs

  • Symposium on Innovative Philanthropy
  • Venture Fund
  • Pikes Peak Real Estate Foundation (encouraging positive community impact using real estate properties)

Helping Nonprofit Organizations

  • Grant making (board-directed; discretionary)

  • Donor-advised funds and donor-designated grants (wide variety of fund types)

  • Convening Fund (designed to pull together people around a common idea or beneficial purpose)

  • Emergency Fund (grants as well as low-or-no interest loans are possible)

  • Fiscal sponsorship services (examples include Stop Family Violence, Fountain Creek Restoration Project)

  • Establishing endowment funds (new  for 2009: the “one-percent solution”)

Planned Giving Support and Services

  • Special Funds

  • Erikson Fund (for visually impaired and blind citizens)

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