• American Cancer Society 800-227-2345, tinyurl.com/ybvauycg.
• American Numismatic Association Money Museum 800-367-9723.
• ASSE International Student Exchange Program 800-888-9040, host.asse.com.
• Care and Share Food Bank 418-4295, careandshare.org, brendas@careandshare.org.
• Cerebral Palsy Association of Colorado Springs 638-0808.
• Colorado Springs Sister Cities International sistercitycs.org.
• Community Advancing Public Safety springscaps.org.
• Community Partnership for Child Development/Head Start 635-1536, ext. 276, cpcdheadstart.org.
• Discover Goodwill Grace, 785-9229, gvigil@discovermygoodwill.org.
• District Attorney’s Office 520-6037, 4thjudicialda.com.
• Doll Doctors Donations accepted; Pat Dinsmore, 574-1915.
• El Paso County Parks Christine: 520-6996.
• Energy Resource Center 591-0772, erc-co.org.
SIGNINGS
Book Signings Susan Joy Paul, “Women in the Wild: The Everywoman’s Guide to Hiking, Camping and Backcountry Travel,” and Chris Meehan, “Best Outdoor Adventures Colorado Front Range: A Guide to the Region’s Greatest Hiking, Climbing, Cycling and Paddling,” 5-8 p.m. May 20, Covered Treasures Bookstore, 105 Second St., Monument; 481-2665.
LITERARY EVENTS
Virtual Write Drunk; Edit Sober With Pikes Peak Writers, learn to write without letting your inner critic get in the way and then use critical analysis to continue to work, 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesday. Registration required: pikespeakwriters.com/ppw-events/may-2021-write-drunk-edit-sober.
Virtual Writer Night With Pikes Peak Writers, 6:30-8:30 p.m. May 24. Registration required: pikespeakwriters.com/ppw-events/april-2021-writers-night-2.
The City of Colorado Springs will hold a groundbreaking for the Panorama Park renovation project at 12:30 p.m. May 8 at Panorama Park. The 13.5 acre park at 4540 Fenton Road, adjacent to Panorama Middle School in the Southeast, is slated to receive the largest neighborhood park renovation in Colorado Springs history.Â
âThis project is estimated at a $7 million investment between the city and the Trust for Public Land for construction,â says Connie Schmeisser, a landscape architect with the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department. âThis is a really important project milestone for the community, and for the city, and for all the people that support this project. Itâs taken us about three years to get to this point. We not only want to say âThank youâ for making this possible, we want to take a moment to recognize all the hard work to this point in taking this next step toward making this vision a reality.â
SeaChange Capital Partners, an organization that helps nonprofits with complex challenges, warned a year ago that nonprofits would have to take decisive action to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the strategies they recommended were that nonprofits refocus on their missions, plan for the future and explore new fundraising options. That is exactly what local nonprofits have been doing.
The Manitou Art Center, for example, has repurposed its two buildings, and its leaders have used the pandemic slowdown to do the strategic planning they didnât have time to do before.
After closing its facility in March 2020, the Colorado Springs Senior Center found new ways to provide services and new collaborative partners.