charities
We have been helping at-risk youth through fellowship and hard work for over 50 years!
Those that we help
The charities that we chose to help are amazing entities that we are proud to help them accomplish so much for our community. They work hard for those that need it the most in Northern Colorado. Each and every charity is vetted by our board to assure their utmost honesty and commitment.
Our charities
Coats & Boots
For eleven years now, North Fort Collins Business Association (NFCBA), in conjunction with Jax, has purchased quality coats and boots to distribute to children deemed to be the most impacted by poverty. The goal of Coats and Boots is to provide warm quality winter coats and boots to Poudre School District students living in poverty.
This previous year, the Coats and Boots goal was to meet the needs of all PSD students living in poverty. And they did, providing coats and boots to 28 elementary schools, 970 kiddos. They raised $58,000 to accomplish this task. Almost a quarter of the goal ($12,750) was raised through the Chipping fore Charities Golf Tournament. Schools selected the students based on their level of need as indicated by parents or staff members.
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A big fifth grader beamed in his brand-new Columbia jacket. He was overwhelmed with gratitude and he expressed his feelings to the Coats and Boots volunteer who had helped to fit him in style that day. Now, he wouldn’t have to wear his three sweatshirts to school on frigid mornings to stay warm. He was so very proud as he boarded the bus that afternoon for his ride home from school. He had sincerely thanked the volunteer who had helped fit him in his new winter-wear and that is why the office staff was so surprised, the next morning, to see that he had arrived without the prized jacket. He was once again wearing his worn out layer of three stained sweatshirts to stay warm.
“Where’s your nice new Columbia jacket?” was the query from a staff member. “Well, my dad didn’t have a coat of his own and he was so cold each morning as he left for work, I just had to give him mine,” was the young man’s response. Not only was he thankful for the generosity shown toward him, but he was paying it forward to someone he felt was more in need than he was.
And that fifth grader who generously gave his jacket to his dad? Coats and Boots provided him with another one!