Colorado Gives Day was a success in Vail Valley

By scott miller

EAGLE COUNTY — Tuesday’s Eagle County Gives Day — and its statewide parent, Colorado Gives Day — was a big success, and not just financially.The preliminary numbers are impressive: $778,000 raised in one day of online giving, a $6,000 increase over 2014. That money will benefit 42 county-based nonprofits. Donations were made to individual groups, but those groups will also get a share from state and local incentive funds.The money is helpful. It always is. But Seth Ehrlich, the director of SOS Outreach and the coordinator of Eagle County Gives Day, said almost as important is the way local groups …

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