Second Regular Session
Sixty-first General Assembly
LLS NO. R980586.01 DFH
STATE OF COLORADO
BY REPRESENTATIVE Lawrence;
also SENATOR Powers.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 98-1016
WHEREAS, El Pomar Foundation located in Colorado
Springs has provided over sixty years of service to Colorado and
the Pikes Peak Region and has provided aid over the years to Colorado's
seniors, homeless, and young people; and
WHEREAS, El Pomar Foundation was created in 1937
by Spencer Penrose, who was founder of the Utah Copper Company,
and who, with his wife Julie, built the famous Broadmoor Hotel;
and
WHEREAS, Since its founding, the Foundation has contributed
over two hundred twenty million dollars in grants to numerous
civic and community organizations and in 1997 alone donated more
than twelve million dollars in grants to charitable organizations;
and
WHEREAS, The Foundation led the effort to build the
Colorado Springs World Arena, a public and private venture, and
helped finance construction of the Olympic Training Center in
Colorado Springs; and
WHEREAS, The Foundation has assets of over four hundred
million dollars and now ranks among the one hundred largest private
foundations in the United States and is the largest private foundation
in the Rocky Mountain Region; and
WHEREAS, Through the visionary leadership of El Pomar
trustees and its chairman and chief executive officer, William
Hybl, a former member of the House of Representatives, El Pomar
has "virtually reinvented itself during the past decade"
to more effectively use El Pomar's resources to benefit Colorado's
communities and charitable organizations; and
WHEREAS, El Pomar Foundation is the recipient of
the 1998 National Outstanding Foundation Award presented by the
National Society of Fund Raising Executives, which is the highest
honor presented by this international association of nineteen
thousand nonprofit executives; and
WHEREAS, This award recognizes El Pomar Foundation
for "a lifetime of giving, building a community, training
leaders and members of the nonprofit community"; and
WHEREAS, This award honors El Pomar Foundation for
four particular programs, including the creation of El Pomar Center,
which hosts educational and training programs for nonprofit organizations;
the Youth in Community Service program in which matching grants
are provided to nearly eighty high schools in the state for distribution
by the schools in their own communities; the Awards for Excellence
program, which provides grants to outstanding nonprofit organizations
in Colorado; and El Pomar Fellowship project in which young college
graduates have opportunities to develop their leadership skills
by working with nonprofit groups; and
WHEREAS, El Pomar Foundation's philanthropic style
has been described by the local press as a "lowprofile,
highimpact presence" that is known for "quietly
making its charitable investments in endeavors where the resources
are likely to make the most difference and to sustain themselves
in the future"; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives
of the Sixtyfirst General Assembly of the State of Colorado,
the Senate concurring herein:
That the General Assembly hereby expresses its heartfelt
thanks on behalf of all Coloradans to El Pomar Foundation for
its years of dedicated service and generous charitable donations
to Colorado and extends its congratulations to El Pomar Foundation
on the receipt of this special national recognition from the National
Society of Fund Raising Executives.
Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to El Pomar Foundation and to William Hybl, the chairman and chief executive officer of El Pomar Foundation.