Very early next Friday morning, August 12, The Matthews House will have a team lining up for the Wild West Relay for the 5th year in a row. Like the other 100+ teams, our team of 12 will be running 200 miles from Fort Collins to Steamboat Springs. However, we’ll be running in order…
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Volunteer Excellence Award Presented to Matthews House Volunteers
Every year at their State of the Community event, United Way of Larimer County recognizes outstanding volunteers in the community. At the 2011 event, on June 9th, the Volunteer Excellence Award was presented to our very own 2010 Volunteers of the Year, Brian & Esther Hansen, recognizing their truly extraordinary commitment to serving their community….
Backyard Facelift
On May 25th employees of Cargill volunteered their time by partnering with The Matthews House to install our brand new vegetable gardens and give our backyard a face lift. We had over 15 Cargill volunteers, 7 youth, 3 staff, and 4 volunteers from the Matthews House! In less than 8 hours our backyard was…
Merry Christmas!
On Wednesday evening, December 10th youth, mentors and volunteers joined at First United Methodist Church in Fort Collins for a Christmas Party hosted by Steppin’ Out. Thanks to Steppin Out, the Fellowship Hall at First United Methodist was festively decorated and plenty of tasty food was available for all. Thanks to a generous community, every…
Matthews House Gets a Van
Thanks to the incredible generosity of an anonymous donor and the smaller gifts of several supporters, the Matthews House recently became the proud owner of a gently used white 15-passenger van. Most of the youth we work with have few transportation options and in order to allow them to take full advantage of activities and…
Make a Difference Day 2008
This year on Make a Difference Day in Larimer County, more than 3,500 people gave their time and energy to help 90 local nonprofit organizations and agencies. That’s 14,336 hours of volunteering, worth over $279,000, in just six days! Here at the Matthews House we had 3 groups of wonderful people join us from Mountain…
