Philanthropy

Norwood and longtime Telluride regional resident, April Montgomery, program director of the Telluride Foundation, was recently elected Chair of the  Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB). Governed by a 15-member Board, the CWCB’s responsibilities range from protecting Colorado’s streams and lakes to water conservation, flood mitigation, watershed protection,...

Telluride Foundation’s Annual Award Recognizes Exceptional Community Members Who makes our community great? Who are those unsung heroes? The Telluride Foundation created the Outstanding Citizen award to honor individuals who unselfishly make extraordinary contributions to the community. Nominations are now being solicited from the entire regional...

The Telluride Foundation is hosting the following workshop/ED Breakfast in May, please email to april@telluridefoundation.org if you plan to attend. Workshops are free and open to the public: 1)  May 15, 8:30am to 9:45am, “Strategies for Generating Revenue,” Executive Director Breakfast at the Telluride Historical Museum, 201...

The Strokes of Genius Golf Tournament funds the LARGEST & longest running local scholarship granted to Telluride graduates for higher education. Since its inception in 1993, the scholarship has enabled 70 of Telluride’s finest students to pursue college education, providing over $250,000 in scholarship funding. Please...

Regional youth eligible for a four-year science, technology engineer, or math college scholarship The Neil Armstrong Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for its second round of scholarships. The scholarship was established in 2012 by the Telluride Foundation and family and friends of Neil Armstrong to...

Applications are now being accepted from artists seeking funding for individual artist’s projects, professional development, and artist-to-artist workshops. Small grants support the innovation, creativity and professional development of individual artists living in the Telluride region. Small Grants, a program of CCAASE and Telluride Arts, provides funding...

Telluride Venture Accelerator Receives Blackstone Charitable Foundation Grant to Support Entrepreneurship and Innovation. $100,000 Grant Enables Program Expansion. Meet 2014 TVA winners at open house at Arroyo Telluride, Thursday, February 27, 5 - 6:30 p.m. [caption id="attachment_38290" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Telluride Venture Accelerator, 2014 winners[/caption] Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA),...

You are invited to attend the following upcoming workshop in February offered by the Telluride Foundation. Save the dates for that  and Executive Director breakfasts in March. Send an email if you plan to attend any or all of these events: april@telluridefoundation.org Donor/Customer Relationships Workshop: February 19,...

Telluride Arts now accepting applications for Small Grants program. Deadline is Friday, February 28. Small grants support art at its source, the artists who create the paintings and sculptures, plays and dances, music, films and novels that enrich our lives. The grant program is a unique...

It doesn’t matter where. It doesn’t matter who. Sexual assault and domestic violence ignore cultural boundaries, race, even gender – although women are more often victims than men. Fact is those twin horrors are equal opportunity offenders. And it turns out intimate partner violence is the most...