• Excelsior Youth Center recently announced that The Anschutz Foundation has awarded the agency a grant to serve troubled girls, which includes a challenge grant that requires Excelsior to raise $24,000 by November.
• Jake Jabs, president and chief executive officer American Furniture Warehouse, donated a $1,000 check to Easter Seals of Colorado. Jabs received the check at a Rotary Club of Golden ethics awards luncheon where he was the keynote speaker.
• SafeHouse Denver, which assists women, children and youths involved in domestic violence, recently received grants from El Pomar Foundation of $10,000; SM Energy, $5,000; Louis & Harold Price Foundation, $15,000; and Mile High United Way, $40,000.
• The Children’s Outreach Project recently hosted its third annual breakfast meeting, which raised nearly $10,000 toward supporting early childhood education. The event was sponsored by the DoubleTree Hotel Denver North and DaVita Inc.
• The Denver Rotary Club Foundation announced it will award $231,000 in grants in 2012-13. Of that amount, $204,000 is being awarded to 13 local non-profits to further their programs in the fiscal year beginning July 1.
• Denver-basedDCP Midstream, the biggest fundraiser in the nation for the American Heart Association’s Heart Walks, recently delivered $612,000 to the Denver Heart Walk, which took place June 2.
• New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat, a 15-city bike festival, has passed the $2 million mark for total funds raised for nonprofit organizations. Tour de Fat began 13 years ago.
