{"id":75394,"date":"2017-10-09T11:07:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T17:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/chuck-mcafee-wins-esteemed-el-pomar-award\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T17:07:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T17:07:32","slug":"chuck-mcafee-wins-esteemed-el-pomar-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/chuck-mcafee-wins-esteemed-el-pomar-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck McAfee wins esteemed El Pomar award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0c9bb1ba-39ea-40ba-ac01-32d98a918a87&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1343\" alt=\"Some of the award recipients at United Way\u2019s \u201cBreakfast of Champions\u201d event on Sept. 26. From left to right: Malaka Anderson of Axis Health, M.B. and Chuck McAfee, and Jay Wood, who was named Volunteer of the Year for 2017.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Some of the award recipients at United Way\u2019s \u201cBreakfast of Champions\u201d event on Sept. 26. From left to right: Malaka Anderson of Axis Health, M.B. and Chuck McAfee, and Jay Wood, who was named Volunteer of the Year for 2017.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Stephanie Alderton\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McAfee was one of two people to win individual awards at the El Pomar ceremony in Black Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Meyerson, president of Philanthropy Roundtable, received the Ben S. Wendelken Special Trustees Award in recognition of his commitment to philanthropic efforts across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit organizations recognized as 2017 Awards for Excellence winners were:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet_rr\">Center for Restorative Programs promotes a system of restorative justice in the San Luis Valley.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet_rr\">Kit Carson Rural Development engages in a wide variety of projects to benefit the Kit Carson and Wild Horse communities. <\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet_rr\">Project Angel Heart provides nutritious meals to individuals battling life-threatening illnesses in Denver and Colorado Springs. <\/em>Each organization received a $25,000 contribution for bettering the lives of Coloradans.<\/p>\n<p>The El Pomar Awards for Excellence annually recognize the state\u2019s highest performing nonprofit organizations. Since 1989, the program has provided over $6.2 million in grants to more than 450 nonprofit organizations throughout Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 29, United Way of Southwest Colorado honored McAfee and his wife, M.B. McAfee, with its Spirit of Giving individual award. McAfee said he\u2019s seen the Southwest chapter grow significantly since it started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnited Way is always changing and getting better,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are becoming more and more vibrant in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">The Journal will update its coverage of Chuck McAfee\u2019s award as more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of the award recipients at United Way\u2019s \u201cBreakfast of Champions\u201d event on Sept. 26. From left to right: Malaka Anderson of Axis Health, M.B. and Chuck McAfee, and Jay Wood, who was named Volunteer of the Year for 2017.Stephanie Alderton\/The Journal McAfee was one of two people to win individual awards at the El [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,1269],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-nonprofits"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75394"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}