14 results for tag: Kristy Milligan
Final Remarks from Kristy Milligan, Executive Director, 2010-2014
Note: The Citizens Project staff and board celebrated Kristy Milligan's tenure at a celebration at the end of November, 2014. She is the longest serving staff member that Citizens Project has had and we are grateful for the legacy that she leaves.
I started volunteering with Citizens Project in 2003, quite by accident, after returning “home” from the east coast.
Almost immediately, my involvement with Citizens Project transformed the way I saw the Pikes Peak region. It changed my narrative and my perspective from one of scarcity and threat to one of abundance and possibility. In all honestly, Citizens Project made it desirable ...
Creating Community Breakfast Raises over $51,000
More than 500 community members gathered to create community and celebrate diversity at Citizens Project’s tenth annual Creating Community Breakfast. The breakfast highlighted the work Citizens Project is doing in the Pikes Peak region to promote equal rights, diversity, and religious freedom through separation of church and state, and civic engagement.
This event raised over $51,000 in general operating support for Citizens Project’s many programs including: candidate survey voter guides, its monthly publication Citizens Project Online News, and the Citizens Project Activist Network, which currently serves over 1,500 subscribers. Corporate ...
Citizens Project Raises over $50,000 at 9th Annual Breakfast Fundraiser
More than 500 community members gathered today to create community and celebrate diversity at Citizens Project’s ninth annual Creating Community Breakfast. The breakfast highlighted the work Citizens Project is doing in the Pikes Peak region to promote equal rights, diversity, religious freedom through separation of church and state, and civic engagement.
This event raised over $50,000 in general operating support for Citizens Project’s many programs including: candidate survey voter guides, its monthly publication Freedom Watch Online, and the Citizens Project Activist Network, which currently serves over 1,500 subscribers. Corporate and ...
Destination: Love
a personal commentary on Civil Unions by Kristy Milligan, Executive Director
If you ask anyone who knows me well, they’ll tell you. I cry at weddings. Big weddings, small weddings, family weddings, friend weddings, weddings of people I hardly know. It doesn’t matter. I cry.
Naturally then, I expected some tears and sniffles at this week’s local Civil Unions celebration, and sniffle I did. But as I walked through the blustery evening to my car and sat down, something completely unexpected happened. I sobbed. Inconsolably. (more…)
Listen Up: Kristy Milligan and Richard Skorman on KVOR with Mark Goldberg
Citizens Project Executive Director Kristy Milligan and longtime community activist and Citizens Project co-founder met up with Mark Goldberg of KVOR to talk about the Divine Award, Sharon Friedman, and the Pikes Peak region.
If you're a morning person, tune in to 92.9 FM, 95.1 FM, 98.1 FM, 98.9 FM or 1300 AM tomorrow, Sunday February 17 at 6:00AM to hear the conversation. If you just can't wait, you can listen online now at: http://www.kvor.com/page.php?page_id=221
Deafening silence
written by Kristy Milligan, Executive Director
In the wake of the election, candidates will evaluate their campaign strategy. What went well? What didn’t? Why did some win, and others lose?
At Citizens Project, we wish we had the resources to conduct widespread polling. What we do have the benefit of is reliable anecdotes and interactions with supporters and community members. This election year, the one thing we heard the most was disappointment that candidates were not participating in surveys, interviews, and forums.
In Colorado Springs, we had two competitive Colorado Legislature races. And in those races, there were two candidates, ...
Generation
For the Creating Community Breakfast 6-7-2012
If you’ve been to one of our events before, you know that we usually begin by telling you where Citizens Project has been and where we’re going.
You may have already heard the story of our inception in 1992, a generation ago. What you may not know is that Citizens Project formed initially because a teacher in our community was under attack for teaching – you guessed it – Greek Mythology.
Momentum grew. We moved on to take a stand against Amendment 2, and we continued to stand by students seeking academic freedom, and teachers who wanted to present controversial material… you know, like, ...
You’re Invited: 20th Anniversary Celebration
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Rally Tomorrow: Make your voice heard for Civil Unions!
It's not over yet.
This week has been an emotional roller coaster ride. First, thanks to one brave representative, Civil Unions made it out of the House Judiciary Committee. Then, House leadership filibustered the bill, effectively killing it.
Within 24 hours, Governor Hickenlooper revived SB-2, calling a special session, andPresident Obama expressed his support of marriage equality.
Last night, Citizens Project attended a meeting with partners from One Colorado, The Pride Center, Inside/Out and others to develop a strategy for our next steps. One man who attended said, "I came tonight because I couldn't just sit by anymore. I knew I had ...
Civil Unions
To our friends and allies:
So many of our communications reflect the organizational voice of Citizens Project.
Today, in the aftermath of last night's debacle at the State Capitol, I want to reflect my own voice.
Civil Unions, SB-2, had enough votes and deserved a full hearing by the Colorado House of Representatives. But it never made it to the house floor, because of a filibuster. And several other important bills died with it as a result.
Those are the mechanics of what happened, and that's what died last night.
But the true story is deeply personal, and much more prevails than was lost.
Through this legislative session, we saw heroes. ...