For Small Business Saturday, Cottonwood Institute is excited to announce its “Change Your World” Marketplace where amazing companies have committed a percent of sales or profits to directly support CI students and programs. Please support these great companies that support local nonprofits on #SmallBizSat! CASA GAVIOTA – PUNTA DEL BURRO, MEXICO: Escape the daily grind… Read more »
Cottonwood Institute is in its third year of partnering with Re:Vision for its Urban Farm Volunteer Project to provide a volunteer day that supports the growing Westwood neighborhood of Denver. Eighteen eager volunteers gathered on a Saturday morning, September 30th, 2017 with various connections to CI including board members, advisory members, instructors, friends of CI,… Read more »
Cottonwood Institute (CI) is interested in how the Community Adventure Program (CAP) influences students long-term and what they take with them from their class. We continue to follow up with CAP alumni and hope to keep tabs on their adventures and where life takes them. We caught up with this CAP student from STRIVE Prep… Read more »
For the past 30 years, ColoradoBiz Magazine looks for the best Colorado companies to be recognized for their annual Top Company Awards. After sifting through hundreds of applicants, Cottonwood Institute was honored to make it through as a finalist in the nonprofit category along with First Descents and Denver Kids. ColoradoBiz Magazine, along with… Read more »
Guest Blogger: Joshua Peterson, Cottonwood Institute Board Member and Treasurer: Mission and Purpose: This is what drives us to get out of bed each morning. Mission and purpose drive our decisions on where and why we work, the organizations we build and why we serve our communities. Without mission and purpose, life would be… Read more »
What started as a cool, misty, and cloudy day at Denver’s Union Station turned into a perfect day for The Throwdown 2017, our annual charity cornhole tournament to benefit Cottonwood Institute. 32 corporate teams and 16 competitive teams battled it out, but only 1 team from each bracket would emerge victorious. In the corporate bracket,… Read more »
Colorado Youth for Change and Cottonwood Institute teamed up to create an impactful experience for ten very lucky high school students from Prairie View and Brighton high schools this summer. We loaded up the vans and were off on an adventure to Mission: Wolf! Students didn’t really know what they had signed up for, although… Read more »
It wouldn’t be summer without one of the best charity cornhole tournaments to benefit Cottonwood Institute, so come throwdown at The Throwdown on Sunday, August 6th, 2017 at Denver’s Union Station! It’s a pretty big deal, so Register Today! Not only will you help empower underserved students in Colorado through Cottonwood Institute’s award winning programs,… Read more »
2017 has been an exciting year for the Cottonwood Institute Board of Directors! We started the year welcoming Joel Frank and Jessy Clark to the board and now we are excited to welcome 3 more board members who are storming the board with their passion and enthusiasm: Jake Tiernan, an Attorney for Moye |… Read more »
As Colorado Academy instructors prepare for the kids coming to camp this summer, they invited Cottonwood Institute (CI) to teach a teambuilding workshop at their staff training! If you know CI, this is definitely in our wheelhouse of what we like to teach, so we jumped on this opportunity! With three CI instructors and 68 Colorado Academy instructors… Read more »
