Tag: donations
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Children’s Hospital Colorado seeks public’s help in providing NICU incubator covers
Children’s Hospital Colorado is asking Colorado Springs residents to help make the first weeks of life a little easier for their tiniest, and sometimes sickest, patients. The hospital’s neonatal intensive-care unit, or NICU, needs isolette covers that protect premature babies from the onslaught of light and sound that most people take for granted as part…
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Goodwill hunting: ‘Competitive’ shoppers grapple for deals at massive outlet in Colorado Springs
Fans liken it fondly to indoor Dumpster-diving, a feeding frenzy for the starved of stuff and an addiction waiting to happen if it hasn’t already. Goodwill of Colorado’s Outlet Center is all those things and more — an end-of-the-line ecosystem and mortal reminder that when we shop ’til we drop, we leave a heck of…
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Fountain Valley School food rescue program serves community while preventing food waste
For the past few years, students and faculty members at Fountain Valley School have been involved in a weekly effort to reduce the school’s environmental footprint, help serve the surrounding community, and combat food waste. The Food Rescue Program, which repurposes unused food and delivers it to a nearby food bank each Thursday, was the…