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What a Difference a Day Makes!

By Marla J. Williams, president and CEO of Community First Foundation Community First Foundation , FirstBank , media sponsors, and hundreds of nonprofits work all year to pull off a giving day that makes a difference. In the months leading up to Colorado Gives Day , we’ve been awed by the current of energy building in Colorado. In the last few weeks, who could go a day—an hour--without hearing something about December 6? A year ago, when we launched the concept, we wanted to enhance giving in Colorado. What we got—what we all got—was so much more than that: community engagement and spirit; nonprofit collaboration; people wanting to be a part of something bigger; and a unified, singular drive to help each other by giving. And the donors were unstoppable.   Despite some website glitches, donors were determined to make their gifts – lots of gifts!   More than 52,000 donations flooded GivingFirst.org to the tune of $12 million. That’s an increase of 150 percent over last yea