Over the past month, we asked Denver Post readers and our staff to help us come up with a list of people in Colorado who should be recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments or ideas that either occurred or came to fruition in 2013.
Click for the complete list of this year’s winners.
Nonprofits
WINNER:
Kathy Underhill, founding executive director of
, a nonprofit organization established in 2009 to end hunger in Colorado. In 2013, Underhill, a nationally recognized leader in the fight to eradicate hunger, launched a new advocacy project called , a photo exhibit aimed at shedding light on hunger in the Denver metro area. She has been a champion of retaining food stamp benefits as part of the federal farm bill.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
First United Presbyterian Church in Loveland, for its work during the Colorado floods. “This church stepped up during the flood in a way that made you wanna cry,” . “It opened a supply depot, stocked it, staffed it.” From a September story in The Post: “The church, converted into a supply center, was packed with donated necessities free for the taking — coats, shoes, toys, bottled water, bags of banana peppers and red potatoes.” The music director was deputized as the supply chief.
