Pourtales, Penrose, and the "Broadmoor City" Dream

Gazing westward from the sun-soaked terrace of The Broadmoor’s main building, you can easily be whisked away to another time and place...

Voices of the Fellowship: ACYPL

Fellow Garrett Mayberry and delegate Motheo Mtimkulu discuss the 2016 Southern Africa delegation

Voices of the Fellowship: Empty Stocking Fund

Mari Tanabe discusses Empty Stocking Fund which provides resources to 20 health and human service agencies in the Pikes Peak region.

Career Lessons from a 10-Year-Old

Our childish visions, while often imaginative, are excellent building blocks. Very few people go on to become their fifth-grade daydream. With any luck, however, that initial daydream sets us on a positive course. Let me emphasize I am not at El Pomar today because I wanted to be a marine biologist…

Adaptive Leadership at the SLE Retreat

El Pomar Fellow Abby Pearson captures moments of learning and reflection at this fall's Student Leadership Retreat

The Fellowship Call

Regional Reflections: Healthy Living in the San Juans

"In a land of jagged peaks, open farmland, and arid desert, it's hard to question how the San Juan region boasts such hardy people." Read about Regional Fellow Trevor Zalkind's recent trip to the San Juan Region.

Collaboration and a Hubcap

Imagine you are trapped in your car, overnight, in the midst of a forty degree below zero blizzard. Which item is most important for your survival: hubcaps, a knife, or beef jerky?

Southwest Fellows Reconnecting with Roots

Ginni Hill and Julia Lawton, the Fellows working with the Southwest Regional Council, have a stronger affiliation with their region than most El Pomar Fellows. From Cortez and Durango, respectively, the two share their gratitude and reflect on the unique opportunity to contribute in their home communities through El Pomar’s Regional Partnerships Program.

Philanthropy Comes Full Circle

Now a Fellow at El Pomar, I recently realized that I have come full circle. What started out as an interest in high school has since bloomed into a postgraduate career. Looking back on my excursions through rural Colorado, it is understandable why I value El Pomar’s statewide focus. While the major populations in Colorado are found along the Front Range, some of the most committed individuals live where nobody is looking.