Tag: Partnerships
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Exploring Steamboat: A community that gives where it lives
Leadership Steamboat is sponsored by Colorado Mountain College in partnership with the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association. The program is aimed at growing and enabling business and community leaders. The culminating project of this year’s class of new leaders was Yampa Valley Gives, which partnered with Colorado Gives Day to expand its reach. Lisa Schlichtman…
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1000 Words: Help-Portrait
Since 2008, photographers around the world have taken portraits, often of people in need, through the organization Help-Portrait, then printed and delivered them free of charge. Professional photo program students in CMC’s Isaacson School donated their time to Help-Portrait for the fifth year running Friday night, Dec. 5, at CMC in Carbondale, creating free portraits…
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CMC photo students to give free portraits via Help-Portrait Dec. 5
The faculty, staff and students of the professional photography program at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School for New Media will be at the college’s Lappala Center in Carbondale on Friday, Dec. 5, from 5 to 8 p.m., providing free portraits as part of the international Help-Portrait movement. Help-Portrait is a global movement of photographers using…
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Women bring apparel manufacturing to Rifle
New sustainable venture partners with CMC and Garfield County’s Garco Sewing Works to bring new apparel business to Rifle. This article was printed in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Bob Ward. Tired of seeing “Made in China” tags on your clothing? Then take a look at The Whole Works, a new apparel-manufacturing operation coming to…
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The Whole Works launches Kickstarter campaign
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 1990 and 2011 the U.S. lost 750,000 apparel manufacturing jobs. A new company based in Rifle is attempting to get some of those jobs back. The Whole Works is a new sewing facility that provides skilled sewers to designers of softgoods and clothing. Besides training people to…
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Vail Daily column: Education is an economic driver
Dr. Jason Glass, superintendent of Eagle County Schools; Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, president and CEO of Colorado Mountain College; and Chris Romer president and CEO of Vail Valley Partnership, co-authored this editorial, first published in the Vail Daily. A healthy and diverse economy pays almost innumerable benefits to a community. A few of these positive…
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What It Takes to Keep a Community Theater Running
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on the diverse, innovative approaches community theaters around the country are utilizing to stay afloat. The long running Aspen Community Theatre and Colorado Mountain College theatre program faculty Brad Moore were featured in the article by Kevin Brass. All the world may be a stage, but theater…
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Partnership for Education reaches successful end – and beginning
Students can go from pre-K through college along one-mile stretch in Eagle County By Carrie Click The Partnership for Education was supposed to take 50 years to achieve its goal of constructing a college campus and integrating it into the Edwards community – yet it took just a dozen. So at an Eagle County School…
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1000 Words: Got College?
Approximately 2,000 high school students attended the Colorado Western Slope College Fair on Oct. 5 in Aspen. Buses, sponsored by CMC, brought students to the fair from 79 rural and mountain communities; some students had to travel for hours and spend the night in Aspen High School’s gym in order to attend. Representatives from CMC…
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CMC Partnership Puts Solar Atop Another Library
This article appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of Garfield County Libraries Page by Page publication. In 2012, the Garfield County Libraries first partnered with Colorado Mountain College (CMC) to put a 10 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic system on the New Castle Branch Library. In 2013, CMC returned to put a 19.6 kW array on…