The Broomfield Chamber of Commerce and Broomfield Business Resource Center launched Chamber for Good, a service for nonprofit organizations to help them with financial, volunteer and item needs. The service helps charities raise their visibility within the community and provide businesses and philanthropic individuals with information about a charity’s needs. Charities interested in having their profile on the website www.BroomfieldChamberForGood.com can click on Add My Charity at the top of the page. Once approved, they will be notified by email and can begin posting needs. Businesses interested in sponsoring the website should contact Saunders at 303-466-1775, ext. 6.


FUNDRAISERS

Medicus Financial will present Wine, Women and Chocolate — and a Few Good Men from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at the Dove House, 1055 S. 112th St. (U.S. Highway 287) in Lafayette. The event will include wine tasting, chocolate tasting, networking and shopping, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Coal Creek Meals on Wheels. Items not sold will be donated to Goodwill and Sister Carmen Community Center. Contributors of gently used sale items are asked to drop them off by Friday, April 19, at the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, 1290 S. Public Road, Lafayette. Purchase advance tickets for $30 at www.lafayettecolorado.com or 303-666-9555.

Puttin’ on the Leash, the Humane Society of Boulder Valley’s annual event to help homeless and abandoned animals, will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus. The event will include homeless animals helped by the Humane Society, live and silent auctions, animal presentations and food and drink provided by area restaurants. Guests must be 21 or older to attend. Ticket prices start at $60 per person for general admission and stadium seating. Premium tables are available. More information at boulderhumane.org/potl or 303-442-4030, extension 655.

Community Food Share, a Niwot-based food bank serving Boulder and Broomfield counties, is recruiting corporations for its annual Compete to Beat Hunger Corporate Challenge, scheduled this year for May 7-13. The friendly competition among local companies is meant to raise both dollars and food for the food bank. Corporations of all sizes are encouraged to participate, and winners receive prizes and bragging rights. For more information or to sign up, contact Susan Finesilver at sfinesilver@communityfoodshare.org or 303-652-3663 extension 209. An enrollment form is available at www.communityfoodshare.org.


GOOD DEEDS

Door to Door Organics, a Boulder-based company that delivers food to schools, homes and businesses, donated more than $11,000 during 2012 to Colorado schools and nonprofits through its co-op fundraising program. It has donated a total of more than $31,000 in the past three years.

Community Food Share’s Hunger Hurts the Whole Community food drive collected 1,626 pounds of food March 27, bringing the total to 30,604 pounds in 2013, compared with 27,723 pounds at the same point in 2012. So far this year, the drive has received $3,750, compared with $1,180 at this point in 2012. Founded in 1981, the group serves about 33,000 low-income people annually in Boulder and Broomfield counties through various programs.


GRANTS

Lafayette-based nonprofit WOW! Children’s Museum received a $2,000 grant from the John G. Duncan Charitable Trust. The organization will use the grant to support its 2013 art programs. WOW! offers a variety of art programming for children and families including weekly tactile and watercolor painting drop-in programs, monthly Craft Club program and seasonal art workshops.