We are pleased to honor the following charities for making a difference in our community!
Vanguard Skin Specialists and clara are grateful for the many organizations that help make our community and world a better place. Give Thanks is our annual initiative to recognize local charities and organizations that make a significant impact.
Below are the winners for this year’s campaign listed in alphabetical order. We are grateful for all the incredible organizations who applied. Please keep an eye on our website, newsletters, and social media pages for information on next year’s campaign coming soon.
Ascending to Health Respite Care (ATH) is helping to break the cycle of homelessness through quality healthcare, sheltering and case management. Unhoused community members face daunting barriers to care, from wound care and mental health issues to acute conditions that often go untreated or are exacerbated by being discharged from the hospital to recuperate in the streets. ATH services are designed to fill these dangerous gaps in care via an in-house clinic, step-down medical respite program, and street medicine outreach.
Learn more at www.athrc.com.
Care and Share Food Bank supports the 29 counties of Southern Colorado by providing 25 million pounds of food to partner food pantries, schools, and other community organizations. Last year, we provided 21 million meals to nearly 295,000 adults, children, and seniors. Our mission is to ensure equitable and sustainable access to nutritious food and education by partnering with neighbors, communities, organizations, and supporters across Southern Colorado because we believe no one should go hungry.
Learn more at www.careandshare.org.
Catholic Charities provides help and creates hope for people who are poor and vulnerable in our area through the efforts of a wide range of programs. Services include a daily meal, food pantry, comprehensive case management, housing assistance, family services, early childhood and parent education, and many more.
Learn more at www.ccharitiescc.org.
Community Partnership for Child Development (CPCD) offers early childhood education and wrap-around services, including medical, dental, behavioral health, and family support to over 1,000 children in El Paso County. Most children are living in poverty or from families that are very low-income. With the help of CPCD, children are healthy and well, and prepared to thrive in kindergarten. Parents receive home visits, parenting classes, and career training to help them move toward economic independence.
Learn more at www.cpcdheadstart.org.
Friends of the Children – Colorado Springs creates generational change by empowering the most vulnerable children in our community. This is accomplished through long-term, one-to-one mentoring by dedicated professional mentors that begins when a child is age 4 to 6 and continues for 12+ years, no matter what. This improves their physical and mental wellbeing, supports their academic success, and develops their social-emotional and life skills to help them break through intergenerational cycles of poverty.
Learn more at www.friendscoloradosprings.org.
Help & Hope Center is a 501(c) (3) human service organization whose mission is to meet the immediate needs of residents of Douglas and Elbert counties who are in financial distress and at risk of becoming homeless, to help them work through troublesome times with dignity.
Learn more at www.helpandhopecenter.org.
Posada’s mission is to create and provide housing and supportive services that empower homeless and at risk of becoming homeless families with children, aging adults, veterans, and unaccompanied youth 18-24 in Pueblo County to become self-supporting members of the community by recognizing that everyone has a right to safe and healthy shelter and basic needs, and the support systems necessary to reach their housing stability and personal goals.
Learn more at www.posadapueblo.org.
Safe Passage exists to give all children who have experienced the trauma of victimization a voice and enable the healing process, all at no cost. As the state’s only co-located CAC and the exemplary model for care, it coordinates the responses of partners in the law enforcement, medical, mental health, social services, and legal fields. The comprehensive, wrap-around services offered by Safe Passage include: Forensic Interviews, Forensic Medical Exams, Victim Advocacy, and Mental Health Services.
Learn more at www.safepassagecac.org.
Springs Rescue Mission is a faith-based nonprofit committed to helping men and women in need throughout Colorado Springs – 24/7, 365 days a year. The Mission helps neighbors overcome homelessness, poverty and addiction by helping each guest regain their health, get back to work and find permanent housing. As a low-barrier shelter and homeless resource campus, SRM meets people just as they are to create a safe and welcoming environment that encourages hope, healing and transformation.
Learn more at www.springsrescuemission.org.
