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10 for Change

01 Mar
by sparn, posted in Blog   |  Comments Off

10 for Change challenges your business to make efforts to demonstrate leadership in environmental performance. Taking the Challenge includes your business in the County’s largest commercial energy-reduction initiative and allows you to save some real green. Even if you don’t pay the gas and electric bill for your workspace, all efforts made by your business can be quantified and attributed to the Challenge’s annual reduction targets.

Join the Program!

Joining 10 for Change is free, voluntary and takes just five minutes!

How the Program Works:

  1. Register Your Business in 5 minutes
  2. Receive Scorecard and Resources
  3. Create Your Action Plan
  4. Network
  5. Save Money
  6. Measure Results
  7. Celebrate Accomplishments

Join us right now! Simply email us the business information requested below. We will be in touch within 3 business days.

  • Date
  • Business Name
  • Business Address (including Suite # if applicable, and Zip)
  • Business Type: Retail, Office, Restaurant, Hotel, Manufacturing
  • 10 for Change Primary Contact Name, Phone, and Email
  • Your URL
  • Estimated # of Businesses in Your Building (including yours)
  • Number of Employees in Your Business
  • # of Square Feet in Your Occupied Space
  • Do you pay your electricity and natural gas bills, or does your landlord?
  • How did you hear about 10 for Change?
  • Include email addresses of those to receive our e-newsletter

Grants available for fire victims

07 Oct
by sparn, posted in Blog, Fourmile Fire   |  Comments Off

October 4, 2010 –
By Business Report Staff

BOULDER – Folks who lost their homes in the Fourmile Canyon Fire can now apply for grants from a pool of more than $500,000 raised by the community to help them rebuild.

“We know the Fourmile Fire took a huge toll on the lives of many of our community members,” Josie Heath, president of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, which is administering the fund, said in a statement. “Our goal is to have the dollars from the relief fund available and in the hands of those who need it before Thanksgiving.”

Those affected by the fire should fill out an application form posted at the foundation’s website at www.commfound.org. Completed applications are due by Oct. 25. Residents of Sunshine and Fourmile Canyons, Sugarloaf and Gold Hill will be involved in an advisory committee that makes decisions about how the money is spent, the foundation said.

An outpouring of support from the community for the 170 or so families who lost their homes includes the two boys and their mother who brought in $44.96 that they raised at a lemonade stand and a group of employees who donated $300 in cash after wandering into the foundation office by accident as part of a company scavenger hunt.

Radio station KBCO and concert promoters AEG Live raised another $300,000 in ticket sales for a sold-out concert on Saturday at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield featuring The String Cheese Incident, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Yonder Mountain String Band and members of Phish and Leftover Salmon.

Individual contributions total about $140,000 to date. In addition, the Amgen Foundation donated $50,000, Kaiser Permanente donated $20,000, Celestial Seasonings, owned by the Hain Celestial Group donated $15,000, and the Greenlee Family Foundation donated $10,000.

You can still make a donation on The Community Foundation website. Designate gifts to the Boulder Mountain Fire Relief Fund. Or write a check to Boulder Mountain Fire Relief Fund and mail to: The Community Foundation, 1123 Spruce Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302. You can also call the foundation at: 303-442-0436 for more information.

Fourmile Rebuild Forum

21 Sep
by sparn, posted in Blog, Boulder County, Fourmile Fire, Insurance Claims   |  Comments Off

Fourmile Fire Poster

13 Sep
by sparn, posted in Blog, Fourmile Fire, Support Resources   |  Comments Off

Boulder artist Steve Lowtwait created a powerful “Thank you, firefighters” poster to commemorate the tragedy and as a fire relief fundraiser. Businesses may request a FREE 7½ x 10-inch version for storefronts and business windows from laura@gourmetmediagroup.com.  Order copies priced $25-$90, depending on size.  Half Fast Subs, whose owner lost his own house, paid for the printing of the poster, so 100% of sales go to fire relief.

Posted by Stephanie Bingham, sparn.com