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The Carson J. Spencer Foundation has received a $500,000 grant from the Adolph Coors Foundation to launch a social-entrepreneurship program for the prevention of youth suicide.
Spencer Foundation executive director Sally Spencer-Thomas said the program, “The FIRE Within,” will be in 80 Colorado high school classrooms training young people to find market-based solutions to peer suicide.
The program partners with Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain Inc. and the Second Wind Fund.
“Colorado kids are getting hands-on experience in running a business, while at the same time preventing the unthinkable grief of teen suicide,” Pete Coors, chairman of the Adolph Coors Foundation, in a statement about the award.
Electa Draper, The Denver Post
