Philanthropy

Telluride Arts District is now accepting applications for the 2016 cycle for Small Grants for Artists. Funding for individual artist’s projects, professional development, and artist-to-artist workshops. Deadline to submit: March 7, 2016 by 5 p.m. Small grants support the innovation, creativity and professional development of individual artists living in...

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...

In its first 50 years, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded more than $5 billion in grants to recipients in every state and U.S. jurisdiction, the only arts funder in the nation to do so. The NEA just announced awards totaling more than $27.6...

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...

In “The Peanuts Movie,” Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the beloved "Peanuts" gang make their big-screen debut. And we see them like they've never been seen before, in state-of-the-art 3D animation. Charlie Brown, the world's most beloved underdog, embarks upon an epic and...

Just a reminder that the Community Grants Deadline is Monday, October 26, 5 p.m. All grant information can be found here.  The Telluride Foundation encourages you to invite your board and attend a nonprofit workshop, “Overcoming the Overhead Myth.” The conversation takes place Thursday November 5, 10 a.m. to 11:30...

Join the Telluride Foundation for community celebration honoring Gary Freedman as 2015 Outstanding Citizen of the Year. Party Wednesday, Oct. 7, 5:00 – 6:30 P.M. at Arroyo Wine Bar. The Telluride Foundation’s Board of Directors held its bi-annual meeting July 3, 2015 when it selected Gary Freedman, as the...

Telluride Foundation has given over $35 million in total to the community since its inception in 2000. The Telluride Foundation’s annual Community Grant application is now available, and regional nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply. This year, the Foundation will be instituting two new aspects to...

Fundraiser for The San Miguel Resource Center (SMRC) on Wednesday, September 16, 2015   Background: Following up on the successful format introduced in 2014 (with the showing of “The Girls in the Band” on the opening night of the Telluride Jazz Festival), this year KOTO-fm’s DJ Jimmy Jazz, the...