End-of-year field trips to the zoo, Garden of the Gods and college campuses have been called off for Atlas Preparatory School students because thieves stole catalytic converters from two activity buses last week.
Administrators at the charter school, which primarily serves low-income students in southeast Colorado Springs, also are scrambling to figure out how athletes can get to girls’ soccer games and track-and-field meets over the remaining few weeks of school.
“It’s rather unfortunate,” Brittney M. Stroh, executive director of Atlas Prep, which enrolls 1,100 kindergarten through 12th graders.
“We’re in the last four weeks of school, and we don’t have any way to transport kids to cultural and recreational field trips and sporting events.
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.
• Flying Horse Foundation info@flyinghorsefoundation.org.
• Food to Power Formerly Colorado Springs Food Rescue, 582-6676, foodtopowerco.org.
• Fort Carson Red Cross Therapy Dog Program 526-7144.
• Friends of Garden of the Gods Bret Tennis, 219-0108.
• Gateway Prayer Garden 574-0500.
• Leading with Love tinyurl.com/yb8w8uf7.
• Memorial Hospital Volunteer Services Department 365-5298.
• Mission Medical Center Vision Clinic 219-3402, missionmedicalclinic.org.
• Multiple Sclerosis Alliance 633-4603, msasoco.org.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness 473-8477.
• Need Project Inc. needproject.org.
• One Nation Walking Together 329-0251, onenationwt.org.
• Open Bible Medical Clinic 475-0972.
• Operation Christmas Child samaritanspurse.org/occ.
• Partners in Housing mdunlap@partnersinhousing.org.
The Tenderfoot Bluegrass Band checks their sound system in the Manitou Art Centerâs Hagnauer Gallery. Jeanne Davant
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.
Although the Colorado Springs Senior Center has been closed since March 15, Seniors can still get free meals through the center thanks to Silver Key. Every Monday, from 11:30 to 12:30, five frozen meals with a variety of fresh fruit and milk will be passed out to Seniors. Lois Daniels (right) picked up her meals and a jigsaw puzzle at the Senior Center on Monday, April 13, 2020. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
(Gazette file photo)