Join Us in Support All That is Good
in Our Community.
To be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.
From humble beginnings, the AHA has grown into the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. A shared focus on cardiovascular health unites our more than 33 million volunteers and supporters as well as our more than 3,400 employees. Learn more about our impact over time
DENVER HEART BALL
Heart Ball supporters will help us to analyze, connect, innovate, influence and invest in advancing our efforts to change health outcomes as they relate to heart disease and stroke.
Heart Ball celebrates these efforts to build a foundation of health in our community and ensure everyone lives a longer healthier life. The evening festivities will include dinner, an opportunity to Open Your Heart and further support the mission and an exciting live auction.
Denver Heart Ball: Terri is on the 2019 Executive Leadership Team with chairs Sami and Steve Lockton!
American Heart Association1777 S. Harrison St, Suite 500
Denver, CO 80210
Phone: (303) 801-4630
Have a say in our biggest events of the year by joining the Denver Center Alliance. You’ll come together with other theatre lovers to help support DCPA Education’s outreach in our community through events that are just as theatrical as our performances.
Terri has been a valuable volunteer for more than 10 years and supported DCA's programs Women with Hattitude and Saturday Night Alive. She has served on committees, sponsored entertainment, and provided financial support. In 2018, Terri received the Volunteer of the Year award in recognition of her many contributions.
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
1101 13th St.
Denver, CO 80204
303.893.4000
These priceless images serve as an important step in the healing recovery for bereaved families.
Through further engagement in the organization, such as the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk and online support, families become a part of a compassionate and supportive community. Parents gain a sense of inclusiveness, alleviating the alienation and perception of being alone in their pregnancy or infant loss journey.
As a mother, Terri is very sensitive to the bond between mother and child and understands how the loss of a child is so devastating. For this reason, 5 Star is an avid sponsor and has provided, at the company's expense, the audio production for the Remembrance Walk in Littleton each year.
NILMDTS
7853 E. Arapahoe Court, Suite 2150
Centennial, CO 80112
(720) 283-3339
(720) 283-8998 (Fax)
Toll Free: (877) 834-5667
There are few organizations Terri is so keen to support. When a natural disaster strikes and the need so grave, the American Red Cross is there to help out whenever and wherever they can.
The American Red Cross Mile High Area serves as the Regional Chapter for the Colorado & Wyoming Region, providing disaster leadership for the region and support for five chapters in Colorado and Wyoming.
As a chapter, American Red Cross Mile High Area serves 10 counties: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, and Jefferson. The Mile High Chapter also serves as the Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces station for Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora.
American Red Cross | Mile High Area
444 Sherman St.
Denver, CO 80203
1-303-722-7474
Have a say in our biggest events of the year by joining the Denver Center Alliance. You’ll come together with other theatre lovers to help support DCPA Education’s outreach in our community through events that are just as theatrical as our performances.
Women With Hattitude is an annual luncheon in support of women in theatre.
Terri has been a valuable volunteer for more than 10 years and supported DCA's programs Women with Hattitude and Saturday Night Alive. She has served on committees, sponsored entertainment, and provided financial support. In 2018, Terri received the Volunteer of the Year award in recognition of her many contributions.
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
1101 13th St.
Denver, CO 80204
303.893.4000
Simply raise a minimum of $1500 in pledges and rappel down one of Denver’s most prominent skyscrapers. Whether you are an accomplished climber or a first-time rappeller whose only use of a carabiner is as a keychain, this event is a thrill of a lifetime. An exclusive event for the Cancer League of Colorado, Over the Edge, gives participants a life-changing opportunity to rappel 29 stories while raising money for Colorado-based cancer research.
Unique to non-profits, Cancer League of Colorado has no paid staff and no offices. All operating expenses are covered by membership dues and our volunteer staff. Cancer League of Colorado now has more than 400 volunteer members who share the commitment to fight cancer and support cancer research. 100% of all donations go directly to cancer research and cancer patient services in the state of Colorado. Since 1985, Cancer League has donated over $15 million in grants toward cancer research and services.
Read more about Terri's participation.
Cancer League of Colorado
PO Box 5373
Englewood CO 80155
303-281-9864
Bessie’s Hope enhances the quality of life for nursing home and assisted living elders and brings generations together in mutually rewarding relationships by honoring the human spirit and creating life-enriching volunteer opportunities for youth, families, individuals, community organizations, and businesses.
In 2018, Al & Terri were presented with the Community Angel Award for their volunteer work on behalf of Bessie's Hope.
A World With No Opportunity Gap
By creating a nurturing community, Heart & Hand empowers all young people to realize their potential.
Denver, CO 80205
At the Rocky Mountain MS Center, we are passionate about solving problems and evaluating all options. Workable solutions are what we value, and we look forward to helping you find answers. So whether you are searching for education, care, support or research, you can look first to the Rocky Mountain MS Center. The answers begin here.
Our Mission
The mission of the Rocky Mountain MS Center is to improve the quality of life for individuals and their families living with multiple sclerosis and related neurological diseases through care, support, education, and research.
Our Vision
The vision of the Rocky Mountain MS Center is to be internationally recognized as a leader in the MS community as the resource of choice for people and their families living with MS and related neurological diseases, providing unsurpassed care, support, and education while leading the way in research by developing new effective treatments and finding the cure for MS.
The Annual Gala is THE event of the year and a major fundraising event. Terri has been involved for many years helping RMMS achieve success. She has been a sponsor, volunteer, and entertainment coordinator.
2014 Event Co-Chair
Rocky Mountain MS Center
8845 Wagner Street
Westminster, CO 80031
303-788-4030
Our mission is to secure the cure or control of cancer by raising funds to support innovative cancer research and cancer-related services in the state of Colorado.
Raising Money for Cancer Research
Cancer League of Colorado, Inc. was founded in 1969 by five women whose families were affected by cancer. Their individual heartache sparked a shared mission to raise money for research and patient care. Today, we are at the forefront of discovery into the causes of many types of cancer – and the most effective therapies – through our partnership with the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
Cancer League of Colorado
PO Box 5373,
Englewood CO 80155
303-281-9864
Tens of thousands of volunteers, donor, and supporters advance the Make-A-Wish® vision to grant the wish of every child diagnosed with a critical illness. In the United States and its territories, on average, a wish is granted every 34 minutes. We believe a wish experience can be a game-changer. This one belief guides us and inspires us to grant wishes that change the lives of the kids we serve.
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Transferred from the United States Air Force to a group of volunteers in 1994, Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum is located in Hangar #1 of the former Lowry Air Force Base in eastern Denver, Colorado. Today, the museum boasts more than 182,000 square feet of hangar space full of iconic aircraft, space vehicles, artifacts, military uniforms and much more. Visitors can also experience thrilling flight simulators, discover Wings Aerospace Academy, our enrichment program for 6th-11th-grade students, and participate in dozens of exciting museum-sponsored events.
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum is a diverse community organization dedicated to unlocking our visitors dreams of flight through exhibitions, events, and educational programming. Each year, we welcome roughly 160,000 visitors representing all 50 U.S. states and 28 countries around the world.
Terri has been very involved in fundraising efforts for Wings Over the Rockies for several years as entertainment coordinator and provider for the Annual Gala. Terri has also served on the Museum's board.
Wings Over the Rockies
Air & Space Museum
7711 East Academy Boulevard
Denver, CO 80230-6929
Front Desk & Store: 303.360.5360
Additional Charities We Enthusiastically Support
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is the nation's largest nonprofit treatment provider, with a legacy that began in 1949 and includes the 1982 founding of the Betty Ford Center. With 17 sites in California, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado and Washington, the Foundation offers prevention and recovery solutions nationwide and across the entire continuum of care for youth and adults. Singularly focused on the problem of addiction, the Foundation includes:
- the nation's largest recovery publishing house
- a fully-accredited graduate school of addiction studies
- a dedicated addiction research center
- intensive educational programs for medical students and professionals
- community and school-based prevention programs and services
- unique family and children’s programs
- an influential institute for recovery advocacy and policy
P.O. Box 11 C09
15251 Pleasant Valley Rd
Center City, MN 55012-0011
1-888-327-4074
Since Dr. C. Henry Kempe’s landmark paper on The Battered Child Syndrome in 1962, Kempe has been recognized as a world leader in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
We work to keep all children safe and healthy by supporting experts in the field, advocating for children and collaborating with communities.
Terri was proud to be the Entertainment Chair for the "Kempe Takes Venice Gala," April 20, 2013.
The Kempe Foundation
The Gary Pavilion at Children’s Hospital Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 E. 16th Ave., Suite B390
Aurora, CO 80045
303.864.5300
St. Anthony Health Foundation supports the life-changing programs and services of St. Anthony Hospital. Your gift will save lives, restore health and nurture the health of struggling families, right here in your community, and beyond, making it possible to continue the mission put into motion by our founding Sisters of St. Francis more than 120 years ago.
We extend the healing ministry of Christ by caring for those who are ill and by nurturing the health of the people in our communities.
We believe giving is part of healing, and the value of philanthropy is not just in dollars raised, but also in the emotional investment people make with us when we help connect them to our mission. Every gift counts. Thank you for your gracious generosity.
The Marion Downs Center provides culturally sensitive services, resources, education, and research to support the needs of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing or who have communication challenges, their families, and the professionals who serve them. All MDC activities value individual and family choice in communication and use of technology, striving to optimize the quality of life for all that it serves. The MDC operates as a nonprofit “Center of Excellence”, developing and providing hearing, speech, and language services and programs to the Colorado community.
St. Anthony Health Foundation
11600 W 2nd Place
Lakewood, CO 80228
Phone: 720-321-4310
The Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon weekend is the largest marathon weekend in the Rocky Mountains, with 20,000 runners in 2018. Races include a marathon, half marathon, urban 10 miler, and a 5K. In addition, the marathon relay has over 1,330 teams in Corporate, Government or Open divisions and is the second largest Marathon Relay in the US.
As Denver’s largest running event, the Colfax Marathon includes seven races over two days and a two-day Health & Fitness Expo at Broncos Stadium at Mile High. Runner’s World has selected Colfax Marathon in its top 10 lists in multiple years!
Each year, the Colfax Marathon is held on the third Sunday in May, with the Expo and races making a fun three day weekend. 5 Star Talent is there every year with the finest talent in the area performing to entertain the crowds.
Colfax Marathon
The best way to reach us is to email info@runcolfax.org
If you are a member of the media please contact Laura@goaheadpr.com
If you’re interested in being a sponsor, email Melissa@runcolfax.org
If you want to learn more about our Charity Partners Program, email Jean@runcolfax.org
You can also find us on Facebook at “Colfax Marathon: Denver’s Ultimate Urban Tour” and Twitter @runcolfax
Our Mission is to encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
We believe in more.
- We believe no matter where you are in life’s journey, you deserve to get the most out of every day.
- We believe you should have more opportunities to create memories and moments of joy.
- We believe in less pain and more quality of life.
- We believe your wishes should be heard and respected
The Mask Project was founded in 1998 to capture the imagination of Coloradans with a unique fundraiser. The unconventional art auction features custom created masks by celebrities, sports figures, politicians, artists, such as Robert Redford, Michelle Obama, Luke Bryant, Bon Jovi, Dale Chihuly, Von Miller, Governor Hickenlooper, Walter Isenberg and many more. Since its inception, the Mask Project has generated upwards of $4.5 million in support for hospice and palliative care for The Denver Hospice. Terri's own mask garnered thousands of dollars in donations for The Denver Hospice.
The Mask Project has been discontinued to focus on new programs.
The Denver Hospice
501 S Cherry Street, Suite 700
Denver, Colorado
(303) 321-2828
The Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado leads the fight to overcome the challenges of living with epilepsy and to accelerate therapies to stop seizures, find cures and save lives.
We are a non-profit, charitable agency, designated as a 501 (c) 3 organization by the Internal Revenue Service. Donations to the Foundation are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Our History
When her grandchild was diagnosed with epilepsy in 1964, Dr. Harriet Hunter incorporated the Colorado Epilepsy Association because there were no support services available for youth with epilepsy. Working out of her basement, Dr. Hunter and a group of loyal, dedicated volunteers began providing counseling and support to those impacted by epilepsy, while also educating the public about seizure disorders. As the organization’s reputation grew, permanent staff was hired, office space was secured and employment and youth programs were added to meet the growing needs of people with epilepsy. In 2000, we expanded our scope of services to areas in western, southern and northern Colorado.
Terri has been an ardent supporter of the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado and its many fundraising programs including Denver Strides 5K Run and the Color of the Mind Gala. She has been an entertainment sponsor and has provided financial support.
5889 Greenwood Plaza Blvd, Suite 404
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
303-377-9774 | 888-378-9779 (Toll-free)
The mission of RMHC is to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and wellbeing of children. Guiding us on our mission are our core values:
- Lead with compassion
- Focus on the critical needs of children
- Celebrate the diversity of our people and our programs
- Value our heritage
- Operate with accountability and transparency
Our Vision
RMHC is the catalyst to create a world where children have access to quality health care and their families are able to better comfort and support them while actively participating in their care.
Denver Ronald McDonald House
1300 E. 21st Ave.
Denver, CO 80205
303.832.2667
Aurora Ronald McDonald House
932 Potomac Circle,
Aurora, CO 80011
720.324.2400
The Marion Downs Center provides culturally sensitive services, resources, education, and research to support the needs of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing or who have communication challenges, their families, and the professionals who serve them. All MDC activities value individual and family choice in communication and use of technology, striving to optimize the quality of life for all that it serves. The MDC operates as a nonprofit “Center of Excellence”, developing and providing hearing, speech, and language services and programs to the Colorado community.
January 26, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center. The Marion Down's Inaugural "Celebrating the Legacy" Awards Gala celebrates the spirit of giving and showcases the tremendous impact and legacy of helping others reach their greatest potential in life. With the support we receive at the Gala, we are able to build the world's most premiere hearing center that will encompass all the needs for the deaf & hard of hearing and their families.
Marion Downs Center
4280 HALE PARKWAY
DENVER, CO 80220
303-322-1871
303-399-3411 (FAX)
In Colorado, one woman dies every day from breast cancer. At Susan G. Komen® Colorado, we believe that all Coloradans deserve equal access to quality breast cancer care to reduce their risk of dying from this disease.
With the support of breast cancer survivors, co-survivors, educators, physicians, oncologists, and the Colorado community, Komen Colorado has raised and invested more than $42 million into local hospitals and clinics to help pay for breast cancer screenings, diagnostic tests, and treatment for women and men who have no other resources.
Funds have also supported breast cancer patients by covering the cost of non-medical expenses, such as rent, utilities, and food, to ensure those facing the disease can concentrate on fighting and beating it.
The Susan G Komen Race for the Cure continues to be a well-attended event in the Denver area. 5 Star has provided the entertainment for these events.
