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Great-West Life Bike MS
Kudos to Chad Mitchiner and Mark Schwarz for their recent participation in the Great-West Life Bike MS, a two-day fundraising bike ride that benefits the Colorado Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
This is the tenth consecutive year Chad and Mark have participated in this fantastic event. Over 4,000 participants registered and helped raise over $3 million for a great cause. |
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Annual Courage Classic
| Roy Masters, Epilog's director of operations, and family recently participated in the annual Courage Classic. The Courage Classic is 157-mile ride through Leadville to Copper Mountain, over Vail Pass and around select Summit County ski areas. A total of 2,000 riders registered this year, with all proceeds going to The Children's Hospital. |
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Click here to learn more about the Courage Classic! |
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| Denver Rescue Mission Volunteering |
A group of Epilog employees recently spent the evening volunteering at the Denver Rescue Mission, helping to prepare and serve dinner to a crowd of over 280 local men and women.
This was the second time a group of ten employees and their families volunteered at the Lawrence Street Shelter, which is the Mission's flagship ministry and central outreach location. Tens of thousands of poor and needy people come to this facility each year for shelter, food, clothing, medical care, client services, and chapel services.
Rolling silverware at the Lawrence Street Shelter. From left to right: Zach Steadman, Eric Mitchiner, Jessica Carney, Jamie Sanders, Heather Malone.
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While some rolled silverware, others cut tomatoes. From left to right: Michelle Mitchiner, Bob Henry, Jacob Henry, Amy Dallman, Chris Cleavelin.
At the Lawrence Street Shelter, all who are hungry—families, seniors, men, women, and children—are welcome for a nutritious meal. The Lawrence Street Shelter serves three meals a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Volunteers bring essential services to DRM outreach program. Epilog was proud to be part of the thousands of people offer their time, talent, and goodness of heart to Mission projects, to help make a difference in the lives of the needy.
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Front Row L to R: Michelle Mitchiner, Jamie Robertson, Jessica Carney, Bob Henry
Center row: Roy Masters, Chris Cleavelin
Back Row: Jacob Henry, Zach Steadman, Heather Malone, Jamie Sanders, Amy Dallman, Eric Mitchiner
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American Military Family, Inc and Family Tree ~ 2009 Charity Drive
Giving back to the community has always been a priority at Epilog. This year was no exception as we worked with two deserving non-profit organizations in our area who both make Christmas a little brighter for local and military families.
Thanks to our generous staff, we donated over 120 new toys for American Military Family. These toys will be distributed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs. American Military Family's mission is to honor and support all members of the United States Military and their families, who together serve and sacrifice so much for all of us as they protect and defend our freedom. During these trying times for our military, we felt it was important to remember that our active-duty military members have children at home who are struggling with the absence of their parent and uncertainty about when they will return. We had the opportunity this holiday season to give them a great token of our appreciation. It is also a great comfort to our military members to know that their families are happy and being taken care of at home. In addition to the toys, Epilog made a corporate donation of $1000.
For more information about how AMF assists our military families at home & overseas, please visit www.amf100.org.
American Military Family Founder and President Debbie Quackenbush accepts Epilog's donation from Mike Dean, director of sales and marketing.
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This year Epilog also "adopted" a family from the Family Tree organization. Family Tree provides a broad range of services and shelter to the families and youth of metro Denver to overcome child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness. Employees raised $200 to help purchase gifts and other essentials for a mother and daughter in the area - hopefully making their holiday season more enjoyable. Epilog was also able to provide a $1000 corporate donation to Family Tree!
We were honored to once again assist Family Tree who recently won the 2009 Governor's Service Award for Outstanding Non-Profit Organization. To learn more about all of the services Family Tree provides for homeless & abused Coloradoans you can access www.thefamilytree.org.
Some of our happy gift wrappers -
Deb Salley, James Stanaway and Jessica Carney.
The round up of toys for American Military Families
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...The Epilog Elves show off their hard work.
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Family Tree Giving
Epilog recently wrapped up our 2008 toy drive benefiting children and teens being served by the Family Tree organization. Employees brought in nearly 40 gifts for underprivileged youth to help make their Christmas holiday a little brighter.
The Family Tree is a Colorado-based charity whose mission is to help people overcome child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness in an effort to become safe, strong and self-reliant.
Family Tree helps people reach these goals by offering a wide spectrum of services including: emergency shelters for runaway and abused youth, women and children victims of domestic violence, and homeless women and children; counseling and support groups; parenting and self-sufficiency classes; temporary and permanent housing; transportation assistance; supervised visitation and safe exchange programs, among other services.
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Fleece Navidad!
No, it's not a misspelling, Fleece Navidad is the latest community activity in which Epilog employees are participating. This year individual Epilog employees "adopted" 10 different senior citizens at the Camellia Healthcare Center who were in need of warm clothes this holiday season. "For the small price of a sweatshirt and sweat pants, our employees can really make a difference in someone's life," said Mike Dean, director of sales and marketing. "We tend to get so busy and rushed during this time of year - it's comforting to know even a small gesture can really make someone else's holiday." The names of only ten seniors were given to us and upon notifying the company, all ten were "adopted" in less than 60 minutes!
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Epilog Director of Operations Arrested!
Roy Masters, Epilog director of operations, was "arrested" at 11 a.m. the morning of the November 15.
Charged with having a big heart, Master's was tasked with raising $1,300 bail to get out of the slammer (all bail money goes to the MDA for equipment, activities and research.) Luckily, Epilog helped Masters raise bail money (and more!) with a $2,500 donation.
"Muscular Dystrophy is a devastating disease and raising money and awareness for the cause is a priority of mine," Masters said.
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"I can't think of a better reason to spend a few hours in jail than to raise money for the MDA."
"I never thought I'd say this, but I couldn't be happier to have one of our employees behind bars," said Mike Dean, director of sales and marketing. "Seriously though, the MDA is a great cause and we're very excited to continue our work with them."
**A few weeks after his "arrest" Masters was informed he was the top individual bailraiser this year, bringing in $2500. That money will send three children to MDA Summer Camp in 2008.
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