Author: Katie Singer

Telluride Foundation awarded a major federal grant to develop investment funding for regional start-up businesses. The Telluride Foundation was recently awarded a $150,000 “Seed Fund Support” grant from the Economic Development Administration’s Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) Program. Selected as one of eight out of a pool...

Telluride Foundation seeks ideas to improve the quality of life in the Telluride Region;$50,000 Innovation Prize. Proposals due by Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017. 5 p.m. (MST). The deadline for the Telluride Foundation’s “Innovation Prize” contest is rapidly approaching. Anyone with a great idea to improve the quality of...

The holiday season is a time for giving, and thanks to the Telluride Foundation’s especially generous donors, 67 regional organizations are receiving grant money. On December 29, the Foundation’s Board of Directors met to finalize its Community Grant awards, one of the Foundation’s core programs that funds...

West End Pay It Forward Trust close to end-of-year goal, just $2,000 short of their end-of-year goal, thanks to an anonymous donation.   Thanks to an anonymous benefactor, the West End Pay It Forward Trust (PIFT) received a 10,000 donation. The gift has brought funding for the PIFT to...

Start-Up Accelerator Graduates 4th class on July 1, 2016. To register, please visit www.tellurideva.com. The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA), an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, invites the community to come to the final presentations of four start-up ventures from the 2016 class and two returning TVA 2014 companies at...

Telluride Foundation receives state and federal grants to develop southwest innovation corridor.Twofold support for regional entrepreneurs and Telluride Venture Accelerator expansion. The Telluride Foundation’s award-winning Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) will soon be expanding its programs and collaborating with other regional business development organizations to create a...

Telluride Venture Accelerator selects companies for 2016. Start-up accelerator making significant impact on Telluride region. Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA), an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, announced today the five winning companies slated to participate in its 2016 accelerator program. Based in Mountain Village  and in its fourth year, TVA is a...

72 local organizations benefit from generosity of Telluride Foundation donors. Seventy-two regional nonprofits will end the year happy to know they will have more funding for their critical programs and projects.  The Telluride Foundation announced its Community Grant awards on December 30, following recommendations by its Board of...

An added bonus from the Telluride Foundation: $15,000 in match money, $1,000 for Best Marketing. Tuesday, December 15, 2015 (12.15.15), the Telluride Foundation and local nonprofit organizations want to demonstrate the generosity of our local and extended, community. The goal of Telluride Gives is that every full-time, part-time resident, or...

Telluride Venture Accelerator enters fourth year. Business accelerator making significant impact on region.   Ninety mentors have their reading glasses on reviewing more than 120 applications for the fourth class of entrepreneurs/companies for the Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA). Each finalist team will receive a $30,000 investment in exchange for a 5%...