Thank You Thursday!

This week’s roundup of generous donors to the Imagine! Foundation includes:

Cash Donations

Silver ($2,500-$4,999)
Faith Community Lutheran Church – Grant for $2,775 to provide financial assistance in crisis situations affecting Longmont residents with developmental disabilities

Friend ($1-$249)
Apple Matching Gift Program
Bob & Amanda Brown
Vincent Cervantes
David & Darlene Foy
Iva Richter
John & Jodi VanMatre

In-Kind Donations

Friend ($1-$249)
Panera Bread – Discount on box lunches for Imagine! Provider Fair and waived delivery charge

As always, we thank all of our generous donors.

CU President’s Leadership Class Students Organize Imagine! Service Dog Visit

On April 16, a service dog in training through Freedom Service Dogs visited Imagine! CORE/Labor Source classes so the Imagine! consumers in the classes could meet the dog, Koopa, and ask questions to the dog’s trainer, Jane, about what a service dog does.

The visit was organized by eleven students in the University of Colorado President’s Leadership Class. As a class project, the students chose to hook up two nonprofits in a way that might be mutually beneficial to both organizations. Only four of the students attended the visit, as they didn’t want to overwhelm the CORE/Labor Source classes, and other students had class conflicts. The four students who attended are: Andrea Arreguin, Alexandria Harding, Jimmy Owsley, and Hannah Steketee.

Thanks to all the students who helped to organize this visit, and thank you to Jane and Freedom Service Dogs for bringing Koopa to visit the CORE/Labor Source classes.

Pictured in the photos below, (top) from the left are Cari (in yellow sweater) with Art Instructor Bridget, Koopa, and his trainer Jane; (bottom) Frank pets Koopa with Jane to the left.