Give! is the Colorado Springs Independent's year-end multimedia and guerilla marketing campaign designed to generate funds, volunteers and applause for the important work local nonprofits perform.

This year our broad-based community steering committee has selected 40 incredible non-profits to be part of the 2010 Give! campaign.

Community members can select one, two or multiple non-profits and make a donation online in a single, easy transaction. And if, in this admittedly difficult economy, you cannot give much, or at all, no worries. There are plenty of valuable opportunities to volunteer as well.

Giving can be made via this secure web site, and all funds are held by the Pikes Peak Community Foundation, until mid-January 2011, when non-profit organizations will be paid 100% of funds citizens donate at an event sponsored by the El Pomar Foundation.

• to encourage people who do not regularly give to donate time and money, with a particular emphasis on getting those in their 20s and 30s to become philanthropists.
• to educate our community about the important work performed by local non-profits
• to provide a Pikes Peak philanthropic platform which will make giving back to our community easy, enjoyable and effective