Pastor Jerry Herships leads a group of volunteers every day in distributing lunches to people in need. On Christmas, that food line also includes hand warmers and warm clothes.
Tim Gill was angry and depressed the night an anti-gay amendment passed in Colorado in 1992. So he created The Gill Foundation to advocate through philanthropy and political giving.
Darth Hurlburt, 93, and Tom Spitzlberger, 57, are still friends today.
The Aurora teen created a reading program for young kids when he was in high school.
The Junior League of Denver first created the cult favorite cookbook as a fundraiser in 1978.
Through text messages, donors buy heaters, jackets, bedding and more for individual people who need them.
Donors were matched up with families fleeing civil war but say some cash they sent never arrived.
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