Colorado Gives Day
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Local artist Melissa Axel (melissaaxel.com) has generously offered to give away a free 3-song bundle download to supporters who give to The Center on CO Gives Day. Email dperea@glbtcolorado.org after you donate on GivingFirst.org for your exclusive download link.
About the artist: At just eight years of age, Melissa Axel was writing songs about the bittersweet journey of life, love, struggle, and inspiration—and not much has changed since. Based in Denver, the piano-driven songwriter studied at Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music and was twice awarded scholarships to participate in workshops hosted in the UK by the WOMAD Foundation (World of Music, Arts and Dance) created by Peter Gabriel. Powerful yet subtle, comforting yet complex, Axel's new album LOVE . HUMANITY . METAMORPHOSIS gives voice to the diverse emotional spectrum connecting us all. Message from Melissa: These songs are about our struggles for love and acceptance, how we see the world from the high and low points we each make our way through, time after time, and hopefully, find ourselves all the better for. May they bring you ever closer to love, humanity, and the kind of metamorphosis worthy of the unique, extraordinary beauty within and all around you. This music is dedicated to all the beautiful children deep inside us who just want to be loved for who they really are. Be brave. Choose love.
The Center will be Tweeting for Dollars on Colorado Gives Day, December 6th
Coloradans are encouraged to “give where you live,” on December 6th during Colorado Gives Day, a statewide initiative benefitting several non-profits, to increase philanthropy in Colorado. The annual event is hosted by the Community First Foundation .The Center will be hosting a unique 24-hour tweetathon that day, thanking donors and encouraging supporters with the hash tag CO4TheCenter (#CO4TheCenter). Supporters who use the hash tag will be entered into a drawing for prizes.
On last year’s Colorado Gives Day, The Center raised $107,000. In 2011, The Center hopes to raise $125,000 to support our operations and community programming. Donations that day will be accepted through the online giving website www.GivingFirst.org, starting at 12:00am.
Colorado Gives day is a powerful day to give to The Center, as the value of individual donations on December 6th will be increased through two matching programs; The Gill Foundation will be matching new and increased donations to The Center dollar for dollar, and Giving First will also be allocating a proportional match from a $300,000 incentive fund. Additionally, GivingFirst will be randomly choosing donors every hour to win $1,000 prizes for their organizations, and twelve $5,000 prizes will be awarded to organizations with the most successful campaigns. The Center hopes to be a recipient of these bonus dollars in addition to the guaranteed matches.
Similar to last year, credit card and processing fees will be covered by Community First Foundation and sponsors so that 100 percent of Colorado Gives Day donations go directly to nonprofit organization.
In addition to fundraising, Colorado Gives Day raises awareness of the state’s nonprofit sector and educates communities on the benefits of online giving. Last year on Colorado Gives Day, Coloradans donated $8.4 million online for 529 charities.
