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Our Giving Back - Looking Forward

For over 75 years, we have made it a priority to give back to our community, and this shines brightly in everything that we do. From donating to local schools, giving back to charities and volunteering our time, we display our dedication to building future growth and prosperity.

Since we began our ECB Giving Back - Looking Forward grant in 2019, we have been able to donate over $463,000.00.  You must be a non-profit, school or community minded organization to apply.

2023 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant

2023 Grant Recipients

Eastern Colorado Bank was proud to present Giving Back- Looking Forward Grants to these local schools, charities and organizations. All our donations are going to bettering the community and helping to build future prosperity!

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2023 Baby Bear Hugs

Eastern Colorado Bank donated $2,000.00 to Baby Bear Hugs in Limon, CO with the 2023 ECB Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. These funds will help their outreach program give support to families of c...
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2023 CWHS Foundation

Eastern Colorado Bank donated $5,000.00 to Cheyenne Wells High School Foundation with our 2023 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. These funds will go towards building a new track and new playground ...
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2023 Wild Horse Community Club

Eastern Colorado Bank donated $3,500.00 to Wild Horse Community Club with the 2023 ECB Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. These funds will help redo the vestibule flooring, ceiling tiles, window cov...
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2023 Country Living Learning Center

Eastern Colorado Bank donated $5,000.00 to Country Living Learning Center in Limon, CO with the 2023 ECB Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. These funds will help purchase teacher professional develo...
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2023 Kit Carson Historical Society

Eastern Colorado Bank donated $2,500.00 to Kit Carson Historical Society with the 2023 ECB Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The funds will help update labels on exhibits in the Old Depot, the hous...
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2023 Strand Theater Group

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000 to Strand Theater Group with our 2023 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The funds will help replace the flooring in the Theater that was damaged by water an...
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Eastern Plains Animal Welfare Alliance

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $550.00 from the Giving Back - Looking Forward grant to Eastern Plains Animal Welfare Alliance (EPAWA). These funds will help pay for 10 spay/neuter surgeries in the ...
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2023 Prairie Cultural Revitalization

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000.00 from the 2023 Giving Back - Looking Forward grant to Prairie Cultural Revitalization.  These funds will help revitalize downtown Burlington Main Street...
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2023 Mercy's Gate

Eastern Colorado Bank donated $10,000.00 to Mercy's Gage in Colorado Springs with the 2023 ECB Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The funds will help mitigate hunger and homelessness in Colorado Spr...
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2023 Dynamic Dimensions

Eastern Colorado Bank donated $5,000.00 to Dynamic Dimensions, Inc. with the 2023 ECB Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The funds will help support the 2nd Annual Middle School and High School Day ...
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2023 EMBRAVE

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $10,000.00 to Embrave with our 2023 Giving Back - Looking Forward grant. With these funds Embrave's Community Corrections Program will provide rehabilitation and supp...
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2023 Prairie View Health Resources

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000 to Prairie View Health Resources with our 2023 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The funds have helped send Tanaia Hansen to Nursing School at Lamar Communi...
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2023 USD 242 Weskan School

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000.00 to USD 242 Weskan School with our 2023 Giving Back - Looking Forward grant. The funds will help support Weskan Sports Improvement Committee with a new dirt-...

2022 Grant Recipients

Eastern Colorado Bank was proud to present Giving Back- Looking Forward Grants to these local schools, charities and organizations. All our donations are going to bettering the community and helping to build future prosperity!

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2022 Kit Carson Rural Development

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $10,000.00 to Kit Carson Rural Development with the 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. These funds helped bring new housing to Kit Carson, Colorado....
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2022 Kirk Fire Department

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $6,000 to Kirk Fire Department with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant....
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Springs Rescue Mission 2022

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000 to Springs Rescue Mission with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. This will help continue to provide a emergency homeless shelter for 450 people eve...
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2022 Wells Rural Development

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000 to Wells Rural Development with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The Cheyenne County Commissioners, Town of Cheyenne Wells and Eastern Colorado Ba...
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2022 Prairie Family Center

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $2,000 to Prairie Family Center with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant....
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Dream Centers of Colorado Springs

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $10,000 to Dream Centers of Colorado Springs with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. Dream Centers mission is to help single mothers and their children who...
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2022 Karval Food Pantry

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000 to the Karval Food Pantry with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. This will help start the construction to add a room to the Karval Community Buildi...
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2022 USD 241 Wallace County School

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $1,000 to USD 241 Wallace County School with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant....
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2022 Greeley-Wallace County Healthcare Foundation

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $1,500 to Wallace County Healthcare Foundation with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant....
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2022 Prairie View Health Resources

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000 to Prairie View Health Resources with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant....
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2022 Dynamic Dimensions

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $2,500 to Dynamic Dimensions with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant....
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2022 Chinook Center

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $2,500 to CHINOOK CENTER with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant....
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2022 WALKS CAMP PARK ASSOCIATION

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $5,000 to Walks Camp Park Association with our 2022 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. This will help replace the heater that is no longer functional and replace th...

2021 Grant Recipients

Eastern Colorado Bank was proud to present Giving Back- Looking Forward Grants to these local schools, charities and organizations. All our donations are going to bettering the community and helping to build future prosperity!

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THE Place 2021

ECB has donated $2,500 to THE Place to help provide services for runaway and homeless street youth in El Paso County....
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Forge Evolution

ECB has donated $1,000 to Forge Evolution (formerly CS Teen Court) to help provide early intervention education and restorative justice options to low-income youth/families who are referred to this pr...
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Dream Centers

ECB donated $2,500 to Dream Centers to help provide homeless women and women with children to get housing and to learn how to move on with their lives and provide for themselves and their children....
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Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado

ECB has donated $1,000 to Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado to support it's mission to 'empower youth to own their own economic success' through programming focused on financial literacy, career...
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Partners in Housing

ECB has donated $1,000 to Partners in Housing to help provide transitional housing an supportive services to help homeless families with children locate employment improve their education, income and ...
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Springs Rescue Mission 2021

ECB has donated $2,500 to Springs Rescue Mission to help provide hunger relief and addiction recovery services....
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Kit Carson School District

ECB has donated $2,000 to the Kit Carson School District to help students design, create and implement a community facing, student led CTE store in Kit Carson....
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Sharon Springs Golf, Inc.

ECB has donated $2,000 to the Sharon Springs Kansas Golf course to help them rebuild their buildings from the tornado damage earlier this summer....
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Weskan School USD 242

ECB donated $3,000 to the Weskan Schools to help start a new Career and Technical Education (CTE) for Health Science CTE pathway....
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Wallace County Schools USD 241

ECB has donated $5,000 to the Wallace County Schools in Sharon Springs, KS to help fund a Computer Numerical Controlled Plasma Cutter for their welding program....
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Kit Carson Chamber of Commerce

ECB has donated $2,000 to the Kit Carson Chamber of Commerce to replace 2 upper windows on the east side of the Kit Carson Pool Hall, which is listed on the National and State Historical Registries....
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Kit Carson Historical Society

ECB has donated $2,000 to the Kit Carson Historical Society to help fund the exterior painting of the Old Rail Road Depot and Signal Maintenance House....
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Kit Carson Fire Department

ECB has donated $2,000 to help the Kit Carson Fire Department fix their commercial style freezer that the entire community uses....
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CASA of Pikes Peak Region

ECB donated $500 to the CASA of the Pikes Peak Region to help in funding to recruit, train and manage volunteers to serve the influx of abused and neglected children entering the child welfare program...
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Catholic Charities of Central Colorado 2021

ECB donated $2,500 to the Catholic Charities of Central Colorado to help provide emergency support for families and parents with children who are engaged with Life Coaching a.k.a. family-strengthening...
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Your Community Foundation

ECB donated $500 to help the Your Community Foundation of Limon, CO to help them preserve the old fashioned theater marquee for generations to come....
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Hugo Public Library

ECB donated $500 to the Hugo Public Library to help expand their children's reading section....
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Cheyenne County School District

ECB donated $5,000 to the Cheyenne County School District to help purchase the new LED lights for the Tigers football field....
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Hugo Fire Protection District

ECB donated $4,500 to the Hugo Fire Protection District to help them purchase 2 sets of turnout gear to help keep the fire fighters safe while fighting fires....
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Colorado East Community Action Agency

ECB donated $4,500 to the Colorado East Community Action Agency to help them to continue to offer stabilizing services to families with low income in Elbert, Lincoln, Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties....
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Share the Spirit Foundation, Inc.

ECB donated $2,500 to Share the Spirit Foundation to help them purchase new shoes and socks for disadvantaged children who reside in the areas of Sheridan Lake, Cheyenne Wells, Kit Carson and Burlingt...
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Burlington Community Ball Field Project

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $2,000 to the Burlington Community Ballfield Project with our 2021 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The Burlington Community Ballfield Project is building a sun s...
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Prairie Family

ECB donated $2,000 to Prairie Family Center to help provide and deliver food boxes to senior citizens in Kit Carson County Colorado....
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Dynamic Dimensions

ECB donated $2,000 to Dynamic Dimensions to help keep up the tradition of the Thanksgiving Baskets for those in need....
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BL McArthur Senior Center

ECB donated $5,000 to help pave the parking lot and replace the sewer line for the Burlington Senior Center....
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Prairie View Health Resources

Our donation of $5,000 to Prairie View Health Resources will be used to help pay the expenses for one applicant to attend the Registered Nursing program at Lamar Community College and come back to wor...

2020 Grant Recipients

Eastern Colorado Bank was proud to present Giving Back- Looking Forward Grants to these local schools, charities and organizations. All our donations are going to bettering the community and helping to build future prosperity!

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2023 Mercy's Gate

Eastern Colorado Bank donated $10,000.00 to Mercy's Gage in Colorado Springs with the 2023 ECB Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The funds will help mitigate hunger and homelessness in Colorado Spr...
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KC School

Our donation of $10,000 to the Kit Carson School was used for their new scoreboard at the football field....
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The Place

Our donation of $2,500.00 to The Place will help with the expenses for their Emergency Youth Shelter program in the Colorado Springs, CO area....
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Limon Child Development Center

Our donation of $3,500.00 to the Limon Child Development Center will help them with expenses from having to be shut down for months because of COVID-19....
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Ft Wallace Museum

Our donation of $600.00 to the Fort Wallace Museum in Sharon Springs, KS purchased a mounted badger for their Teddy Roosevelt display. It's an interesting story you should visit the museum for more de...
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Wallace County Community Care Center

Our donation of $5,000.00 to the Wallace County Community Care Center will help fix up their current Dodge handicapped van that they use to transport their residents to doctor appointments....
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Wee Blew Inn

Our donation of $5,000.00 to the Wee Blew Inn - the Burlington Community Child Care Center will help with the expenses of being shut down during COVID-19....
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Catholic Charities

Our donation of $2,500.00 to Catholic Charities of Central Colorado helped fund emergency resources to vulnerable families and children in needs....
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Karval Community Food Pantry

Our donation of $1,500.00 to the Karval Community Alliance helped to expand and purchase new items for their Karval Food Pantry for those who are in need of assistance....
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Royal Family KIDS

Our donation of $500.00 to Royal Family KIDS will help fund their Mentoring Club with supplies for the Royal Family KIDS Little Campers and Mentees. ...
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Prairie View Health Resources

Our donation of $5,000.00 to Prairie View Health Resources will help purchase a preowned 3D Mammography Unit for the X-ray department at Keefe Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne Wells, CO. ...
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Limon Fire Dept

Our donation of $5,000.00 to the Limon Area Fire Protection District will help purchase new bunker gear to keep their firemen safe while protecting their communities....
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Dynamic Dimension

Our donation of $2,500.00 to Dynamic Dimensions, Inc. helped purchase frozen turkeys for their annual Thanksgiving Basket project to give food to those in need....
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Stratton Area Foundation

Our donation of $2,500.00 to the Stratton Area Foundation will help in constructing of a combined Child Care facility and Community Rec center in Stratton, CO....
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2021 GB-LF CW BB

Our donation of $5,000.00 to the Cheyenne Wells Athletic Clubs helped startup a new school gym where all of the kids can lift weights and work out in the Tigers Den....
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Wallace Cty Beautification Committee

Our donation of $2,500.00 to the Wallace County Beautification Committee will help purchase a bronze statue for the Sharon Springs courthouse lawn and 6 benches for the communities of Sharon Springs, ...
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DayBreak

Our donation of $2,000.00 to DayBreak - An Adult Day Program in Woodland Park, CO helped with improvements to a new 12 passenger van with wheelchair accessibility....
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Springs Rescue Mission

Our donation of $2,500.00 to the Springs Rescue Mission will help fund the resources they need to help people who are experiencing homelessness and give them stability and personal improvement options...
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Strand Theater

Our donation of $2,500.00 to The Strand Theater in Sharon Springs, KS helped with expenses when it had to shut it's doors due to COVID-19 in 2020....

2019 Grant Recipients

Eastern Colorado Bank was proud to present Giving Back- Looking Forward Grants to these local schools, charities and organizations. All our donations are going to bettering the community and helping to build future prosperity!

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Catholic Charities of Central Colorado

For over 50 years, the Catholic Charities of Central Colorado have been a place of hope and help for many families. Our donation will help to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable families and ki...
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Wallace County High School

Our donation to the Wallace County High School will help to fund the upgrade of the schools' computer and software equipment!...
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Weskan Township

With our donation the Weskan Township will be able to replace trees at the Weskan Cemetery that were destroyed in a fire....
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USD 242 Weskan Schools

Our donation will help the Weskan School upgrade their K-6th grade Bridges Math curriculum!...
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Cheyenne Wells Metro Recreation District

Our donation to the Cheyenne Wells Metro Recreation District will help fund the addition of a water splash pad to be located next to the Cheyenne Wells swimming pool in the future....
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Urban Peak Colorado Springs

The Urban Peak Colorado Spring mission is to help the youth in our community develop supportive relationships and self-sufficiency. Our donation will fund an emergency youth shelter program....
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Kids in Need of Dentistry - Mission Dental

Kids in Need of Dentistry provides low-cost and high-quality dental care to kids across Colorado. We were happy to help assist in upgrading curing lights and sterilizer's for children's dental work....
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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Colorado

The Ronald McDonald House Charities is an extraordinary light in many peoples life's during very difficult times. Our donation will help contribute to the building of a new Ronald McDonald House at Ch...
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Reach Pikes Peak

The Reach Pikes Peak elevates low income households to acquire assets for long term sustainability. Our donation will help build to this contribution. ...
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Children's Literacy Center

The Children's Literacy Center helps students learn and grow by providing them with the skills to succeed. We were proud to support their after school tutoring program for 600 kids annually!...
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Sacred Heart Catholic Food Pantry

We were proud to present our grant to the Sacred Heart Catholic Food Pantry in Cheyenne Wells, CO. They provided food and gift baskets to over 50 families in need this holiday season....
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Kit Carson Rural Development

For nearly 15 years, Kit Carson Rural Development has made it their mission to promote, beautify and assist in the betterment of the Kit Carson and Wild Horse Communities. It is our hope that this don...
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Our Hometown Charitable Foundation

Our Hometown Charitable Foundation mission is to enrich the lives of people in the community and help the youth achieve their goals. This donation will kickstart their annual project to bring Chromebo...
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Dynamic Dimensions, Inc.

Dynamic Dimensions, Inc provides training, advocacy, and equal opportunity to individuals in the community! We were happy to see our donation go towards Thanksgiving baskets for families in need in Ki...
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Limon School District RE-4J

Our donation helped the Limon School District be able to update and replace aging bleachers and press box's at the football/track field!...
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Limon Chamber of Commerce

With our donation the Limon Chamber of Commerce will be able to setup a copy center in Limon for small businesses and purchase a copy machine!...