The Philanthropy Collective

I drove by one of my favorite Art Déco buildings the other day and saw this. The building has been recently rehabbed, for better or worse, but at least it's not decaying or under threat of being torn down for ugly apartments like my beloved old Art Déco Elks Club (I have murder on my mind because of that). Anyway, I didn't know what the The Philanthropy Collective was all about, so I looked them up. Their description is a little oblique, but at least on the surface it reads like a cool mission if they're on the up and up. But looking at the list of organizations, for starters the Gazette and the Anschutz Foundation jump out at me, and not in a good way. And the Pikes Peak Real Estate Foundation has me suspicious too, when you look at how badly developers have taken over our city, unchecked. I'm just so jaded by extremely right wing organizations here masquerading as a quasi progressive looking "philanthropic" outfits, when ultimately their collective goal seems to be dragging all of society backward into the Middle Ages. So I reserve judgment (and I'm also not saying those organizations have such a nefarious end game in mind, although the name Anschutz always sets off alarm bells for me -- and Anschutz owns the Gazette). Bah! Just glad that one of my favorite buildings will live on, I guess.