Student’s Grass Roots Initiative Supported by Local Developer

COMMERCE CITY, CO – October, 2006 – Southwestern Investment Group, Inc. has played a large role in the positive growth and development of booming Commerce City, Colorado. Now they lend a hand to the students of Adams City High School through financial support of Kid’s First, a grass roots initiative developed by the students themselves.

Most residents of Commerce City know all too well of the poor condition of the building that houses the local high school. Until now, taxpayers, were not willing to foot the bill to build a new facility. With a financial donation of $3000, students took the matter into their own hands to improve the school. They campaigned, distributed information, posted yard signs and fought hard to change the minds of the tax paying public. And they did. Locals came out in support of 3B.

High Plains A&M Donates Land for Alta Vista Charter School

LAMAR, CO – Lamar Daily News – The Alta Vista Charter School in Lamar Colorado graciously accepted the generous gift of a 1acre parcel of land located east of their existing structure for their much needed expansion. High Plains A & M, a SWIG affiliate donated the land through the efforts of SWIG employee, Kelly Roesch. Talera Coen, Director at Alta Vista expressed her gratitude by saying “Kelly was instrumental in getting the land donated and we are so grateful to him and High Plains A&M.” Through fund raising efforts and grants, Alta Vista plans to raise $150,000 for the addition.

Cerebral Palsy of Colorado Receives $25k From Southwestern Investment

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO – The Villager – Mark D. Campbell, president of Southwestern Investment showed what community support is about when he handed a check for $25,000 to Judy Ham, president and CEO of Cerebral Palsy of Colorado. The funds are destined for sponsorship of CP’s Inaugural Straight Shot Sporting Clay, Sept. 24, at Kiowa Creek Sporting Club. The event is a benefit for CP, with $.89 out of every dollar going directly to programs and services.

Cerebral Palsy of Colorado Gets Gift

LONGMONT, CO – Daily Times – Southwestern Investment Group, Inc. donated $25,000 to Cerebral Palsy of Colorado’s Inaugural Straight Shot Sporting Clay Event which takes oplace September 24, 2006 at Kiowa Creek Sporting Club. The event is a benefit for 60 year old CP of Colorado.

Cerebral Palsy of Colorado Receives $25,000 Gift From Southwestern Investment Group.

Southwestern Investment Group, Inc. named Presenting Sponsor of CP of Colorado’s Inaugural Straight Shot Sporting Clay Event

DENVER, CO – June 20, 2006 – Mr. Mark D. Campbell, President, Southwestern Investment, Inc. showed what community support is about today when he handed a check to Judy Ham, President and CEO of Cerebral Palsy of Colorado (CP of CO) in the amount of $25,000. The funds are for the presenting sponsorship of CP of CO’s Inaugural Straight Shot Sporting Clay, Sunday, September 24, 2006, at Kiowa Creek Sporting Club. The event is a benefit for 60 year old CP of Colorado with eighty-nine cents of every dollar going directly into programs and services. “We are proud to have the opportunity to support a non-profit with such an important mission as CP of Colorado and to be able to contribute to their life-changing mission,” states Mark Campbell.

The Inaugural Straight Shot Sporting Clay presented by Southwestern Investments, Inc. will be abuzz with an anticipated 250 to 300 shooters. The biggest of its kind in Colorado! The Straight Shot Sporting Clay Event is similar in format to a golf tournament. A team of four shooters will work their way through one of the country’s finest sporting clay courses, stopping at each of the 20 shooting stations. The stations complete with automated target throwers, allow maximum flexibility in target presentations and simulation of the most realistic targets possible. Shooters will reach each of the sporting clays stations, by foot or golf cart, on a winding path through the course. Ham states, “This event is sure to be one of Denver’s most unique and successful fund-raisers. The generous support of community leader Southwestern Investment Group and other sponsors ensure that CP’s critical work will continue.”

About CP of Colorado
CP of Colorado provides early care and education, employment and family support services for Coloradoans with a wide variety of abilities. They range from physical, mental health, and neurological challenges to “at risk” individuals and those with other life barriers. Last year, CP of Colorado served nearly 14,000 individuals and families 762 Children, birth to five years old, received early childhood care, education, intervention and family support. 1,367 Youth and adults with disabilities or other barriers to employment received job training, placement and retention services. In addition, 11,784 Children, youth and adults with disabilities and their families received support services in the form of parent support groups, health care forums and access to resources throughout the state. For more information, please visit www.cpco.org or call 303-691-9339.

A “Miracle” On #19 Street

In 1996, a terrific restaurant called The Denver Chop House moved into what had been an abandoned warehouse in a transitional urban neighborhood. In the process, it displaced a number of homeless people who had made the warehouse their rough, unheated shelter. “We displaced these folks,” recalls Angie Leach, now national program director for the Rock Bottom Foundation, “and the staff wanted to do something for them.” The result: free Christmas Dinner for homeless people.

Then several prominent community members—including Southwestern’s Mark Campbell and some members of the Colorado Avalanche hockey team—“took the event under their wings,” Leach says. They made it into an annual Christmas Day respite for the homeless. Now called “Miracle on #19 Street” (the restaurant is on 19th Street, in the shadow of baseball’s Coors Field), the organizers not only provide warm meals but also distribute free coats, shoes and clothing for adults and children in need. Mark, she adds, “has been very generous in the past in helping us help these people.”

Mullen High School

Mullen is one of Colorado’s best parochial schools, and “Mark has been very, very generous” in making it that way, says Karen Bye, the high school’s development director. His donations have helped extend its academic programs, its activities, its financial students aid and its building fund. When it came to establishing a girls’ lacrosse team, “Mark was helping us line the field before games.” When it came to building a new library, he was critical “in helping us complete the campus. If we need anything, Mark is there.”

He has given so much, in fact, that “he could have naming rights to anything he wants” on the campus, Bye adds. But claiming credit does not seem to be important to him. “He won’t even have his name on a plaque unless it’s on there with a bunch of other names. He gives very generously, but he gives very quietly.”