Congratulations to The Cycle Effect

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In each of the five host communities of the 2018 Denver Post Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour, a $5,000 grant was presented to an outstanding nonprofit organization working towards improving and enriching the lives of those in their communities. Please join us in congratulating The Cycle Effect.

Congratulations to Mountain Family Center

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In each of the five host communities of the 2018 Denver Post Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour, a $5,000 grant was presented to an outstanding nonprofit organization working towards improving and enriching the lives of those in their communities. Please join us in congratulating Mountain Family Center.

Congratulations to Headwaters Trails Alliance

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In each of the five host communities of the 2018 Denver Post Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour, a $5,000 grant was presented to an outstanding nonprofit organization working towards improving and enriching the lives of those in their communities. Please join us in congratulating Headwaters Trails Alliance.

Congratulations to STARS – Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports

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In each of the five host communities of the 2018 Denver Post Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour, a $5,000 grant was presented to an outstanding nonprofit organization working towards improving and enriching the lives of those in their communities. Please join us in congratulating STARS.

Congratulations to SOS Outreach

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In each of the five host communities of the 2018 Denver Post Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour, a $5,000 grant was presented to an outstanding nonprofit organization working towards improving and enriching the lives of those in their communities. Please join us in congratulating SOS Outreach.

Congratulations to the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation

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Congratulations to the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation for their $5,000 grant presented at the Denver Post Pen & Podium program featuring novelist Maria Semple on May 16, 2018. Pictured from left to right: 
Stacy Schafer, The Denver Post Community Foundation; Cathy Schwartz, Dawn Schipper and Laurie Romer,

Denver Public Library Friends Foundation
; Maria Semple, Featured Pen & Podium Novelist; Michelle Jeske, Denver Public Library; Pam Jewett, Denver Public Library Friends Foundation; and Tracy Ulmer, The Denver Post Community Foundation.

Denver Post Employee Volunteers Make a Difference

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The Denver Post ACTS – Assisting the Community Through Service, employee volunteers with their family and friends  have been busy over the summer. Signing up once again to be part of the AMP the Cause Community Day, the team selected the Ronald McDonald House – Denver as the location of service. After making hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and putting together readily available to-go grab bags, the ACTS group deep cleaned the house from front to back.
The Denver Public Library Friends Foundation’s Summer Used Book Sale was the next project of re-sorting thousands of books getting everything ready for the popular public sale.
The last ACTS project of the summer was collecting school supplies for the Stuff the Bus campaign for homeless students attending a Denver Public School. MEED (Minority Enterprise & Educational Development) organizes this drive to collect backpacks and school supplies each year and distributes the supplies in the fall.
Thanks to the creativity of the three employees pictured on the left and their team, the Stuff the Bus Carnival took place to raise money to purchase school supplies. Denver Post employees generously donated over $1,700 through this Carnival. With additional supplies donated from employees, well over $2,000 was spent on much needed supplies for less fortunate students.

The 2018 Denver Post Ride The Rockies

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The 33rd Annual Tour Featured a Loop Route
For six beautiful days in June, more than 2,000 cyclists navigated through the Rocky Mountains taking in the views from their bikes. The 2018 Denver Post Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour presented by Flexential, was held June 10 – 15 and took cyclists through the host communities of Breckenridge, Edwards, Steamboat Springs, Grand Lake and Winter Park. The 33rd Annual Tour was planned as a Loop Route close to the I-70 corridor, to make it more accessible to riders on and off the bike. This Tour included 418 miles and added 25,935′ of elevation for the riders.

Prior to the Tour, the 9th Annual RTR Prologue Experience, a premier fundraiser for The Denver Post Community Foundation, took place with participants riding alongside celebrity cyclists over Hoosier Pass into Fairplay, all while discovering the gold rush in the restored mining town of South Park City and touring the Old Country Boy Mine, one of the largest and most famous gold mines in Breckenridge.

Throughout the Tour each year, Ride The Rockies and The Denver Post Community Foundation are proud to grant $5,000 to a deserving nonprofit organization in each of the host communities. You can see the recipients from 2018 in the Grant Corner section below.
The 2018 Tour had 48 states represented and had four riders from Jersey, a smallisland in the English Channel. The eldest RTR cyclist was 84 years old and there were seven others over the age of 80! The youngest participants (there were four) were 9 years of age. The dates for 2019 have already been announced, June 8 -15, 2019.
Proceeds from Ride The Rockies benefit The Denver Post Community Foundation. To view photos from the 2018 Tour, click here. For more information about Ride The Rockies, click here.

Passport To The Arts Fall 2018

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The Denver Post Passport To The Arts Fall 2018 packages are on-sale now for just $165 (a value of more than $275). Don’t miss four of Denver’s best shows this Fall:

Thursday, September 13, 2018 | 6:30 p.m.
OKLAHOMA! | Denver Center Theatre Company | Stage Theatre

 

Saturday, October 6, 2018 | 7:30 p.m.
RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN CELEBRATION WITH YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY | Colorado Symphony | Boettcher Concert Hall

 

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | 7:30 p.m.
LOVE NEVER DIES | Denver Center Attractions | Buell Theatre

 

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 | 7:30 p.m.
VERDI’S LA TRAVIATA | Opera Colorado | The Ellie Caulkins Opera House

 

If you have any questions, please call 303-954-2972 or email dpcommunity@denverpost.com

Congratulations to all Pedal The Plains Participants

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The Denver Post Pedal The Plains Bicycle Tour 2018 was another great ride. The hospitality from the host communities Kiowa, Bennett, and Limon, was so impressive and appreciated. We are grateful to all the volunteers who gave their time and talents to ensure a great experience to the cyclists. Thank you also to the Colorado FFA Foundation and Colorado 4-H for their hard work over the weekend.