Philanthropy

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...

Executive Director* breakfast  Thursday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. – 9:4 5a.m. at the Sheridan Opera House, downstairs meeting room The featured speaker at the Telluride Foundation's next breakfast meeting is Stuart Halpern, who will lead a discussion on strategic planning for nonprofits. Stuart has a small practice,...

[caption id="attachment_37264" align="alignright" width="300"] Paradox Valley[/caption] Paradox Community Trust seeks businesses & entrepreneurs needing technical assistance. Applications now open for 2014  for development initiative. The Paradox Community Trust is seeking applications for technical assistance from small businesses and local entrepreneurs with projects promoting local economic development and...

The end of the year brings an extra holiday gift to many local nonprofit organizations that serve the Telluride community and San Miguel County. On Monday, December 30, the Telluride Foundation Board of Directors awarded over $900,000 in Community Grants to 75 regional nonprofits, bringing...

  [caption id="attachment_36903" align="alignright" width="300"] Dude & Bro doing what they do best: hangin'.[/caption] Telluride Theatre's latest production was a Christmas show, "Dude & Bro' s A Christmas Carol," very very very loosely based on the Charles Dickens classic. If you missed it, you are sorry. In this particular...

University Centers of the San Miguel is the Regional Center for the Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC). It also partners with Colorado Mesa University (CMU), Prescott College, Western State Colorado University, Fort Lewis College, and Northern Arizona University. Since its inception in 2005, UCSM is the only higher education organization...