Good News Friday!

Tonight I have the honor and privilege of attending the 13th Annual Imagine! Celebration, Imagine!’s Annual Fundraising event, hosted by the Imagine! Foundation.

We are excited about the many special guests who are scheduled to attend the event, including Colorado State Senator Rollie Heath and his wife Josie, Phil DiStefano, Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder Campus, and his wife Yvonne, David Braddock, Executive Director of CU’s Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, Stuart Feinhor, representing Colorado United States Congressman Jared Polis, and of course our very special guest Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.

The event will include a silent and live auction featuring more than 200 items and a special appeal (paddle raiser). Funds raised during the event will be used to support for the more than 2,590 people with intellectual disabilities (and their families) served by Imagine!, primarily in Boulder and Broomfield Counties.

But the event is not just about raising money. Education is a crucial part of helping the community to better understand the role people with intellectual disabilities play in society, what their needs are, the challenges faced by their families, and the support Imagine! provides. Since we already have RSVPs indicating that this will be highest attended Imagine! Celebration ever (460 as of my writing this), we thought it would be a great opportunity to educate our guests by providing a very brief overview of what Imagine! does every day to improve the lives of the individuals we serve. To that end, we created the short video below. Please take a moment to watch, and maybe I’ll see you tonight!


Can’t see the video? Click here.