Colorado Natural Gas Community Giving Program Awards $3,500 to Area Non-Profits

9/21/2022

CENTENNIAL, Colorado (September 21, 2022) – Colorado Natural Gas (CNG) recently awarded $3,500 to area non-profits as part of its 2022 charitable giving grant program. This year, CNG is celebrating its 25th anniversary. In honor of this occasion, CNG has increased its community giving commitment to $25,000.

CNG started in 1997 when its founders saw a need in their communities and decided to bring affordable, reliable, and safe energy solutions to unserved and underserved areas in the front range of Colorado. The company began with a set of core values that represented their mountain communities: pioneering, excellence, agility, kindness, and safety. These values are still exemplified at CNG every day through initiatives like its charitable giving program.

While a lot has changed over the last 25 years, CNG has remained committed to being a good community partner and neighbor. Each year, CNG donates resources to worthy causes that maintain and improve the sense of community in the areas it serves.

Through CNG’s charitable grant and sponsorship program, CNG awards funding to organizations and businesses with strategies that align with CNG’s mission. Priority is given to environmental, health-related, and educational initiatives and programs, as well as economic and cultural initiatives geared toward improving the well-being of CNG’s neighbors.

Grants were recently awarded to these qualifying nonprofit organizations that serve CNG’s service territory:

• The Community Coalition for Families and Children DBA Community Partnership Family Resource Center in Woodland Park, CO received a $1,000 grant. These funds will support the organization’s food pantry, which serves clients in the Teller County area. This covers a wide range of mountainous, rural communities in the towns of Woodland Park, Cripple Creek, Divide, Florissant, and Victor.
• The Woodland Park Senior Organization in Woodland Park, CO received a $500 grant. These funds will support the well-being of senior activities at the center. The Woodland Park Senior Organization has been bringing together seniors age 50 and over in the Teller and adjoining counties for nearly 50 years.
• The Deer Trail FBC Food Bank received a $2,000 grant. This is the third consecutive year that CNG has awarded grant funding to the food bank.

“CNG is proud to once again support these valuable community resources, especially on the heels of our 25th anniversary” said Phil Marcum, Senior Manager of Business Development in Colorado. “At CNG, we understand we are only as strong as the communities we serve. We always strive to be a good community partner and neighbor.”

In addition to supporting community causes, CNG also provides members of its team with up to 20 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer in the communities it serves.

Colorado Natural Gas has been providing safe, reliable and affordable residential, commercial and industrial energy solutions to communities throughout rural Colorado for 25 years. CNG’s mission is to provide comfortable, clean, safe and energy-efficient natural gas to small communities all around Colorado. Today, CNG serves more than 20,000 customers for parts of Jefferson, Gilpin, Park, Teller, Summit, Pueblo, Adams and Arapahoe counties.