On behalf of the mountain area non-profit coalition we would like to thank everyone who made Colorado Gives Day 2013 a huge success. Together our organizations made over $325,000. Thank you from Art for the Mountain Community, Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity, Bootstraps, Inc., Center for the Arts Evergreen, Evergreen Audubon, Evergreen Children’s Chorale, Evergreen Chorale, Evergreen Christian Outreach, Evergreen Country Day School, Evergreen Players, Into Your Hands Africa, Jefferson County Library Foundation, Jeffco Schools Foundation, Mountain Area Land Trust, Mountain Area Pregnancy Center, Mt. Evans Home Health and Hospice, PeaceWorks, Inc., Seniors’ Resource Center and Starfish One by One-Girls Matter.
Mountain Area Land Trust oversees conservation easements that prevent development in Jefferson, Park, Clear Creek and Gilpin counties, but it does not own property and rarely sees lands go to public use — until now.
For the first time in more than 20 years, MALT is working on a public project in the Pennsylvania Mountain Natural Area in Park County that it will own and manage for public access.
Also unique is a recently acquired easement in Conifer that will be home to the Wildland Awareness and Educational Institute, a nonprofit owned by Indian Hills husband and wife Bret and Susanne Roller that teaches outdoor skills.
The Roller and Roller conservation easement is near James Q. Newton Park just south of Conifer and allows for them to build a facility and cabins for programs they hope to someday offer to the public.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
