Kempe receives more than $27,000 from IP5280's Climbing for Kids event

Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation staff present a check from the 6th Annual IP5280’s Climbing for Kids Event to staff at The Kempe Foundation. From left: Sanya Andersen-Vie, Jacqueline Owens Lindley, Christi Stafford, Tracie Sheppard, Pat Peterson, Gene Liffick and Anne Hanson.

More than 150 climbers participated in the 6th Annual IP5280’s Climbing for Kids event on August 12 at Mount Bierstadt to raise money for Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation and The Kempe Foundation for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect.  The event and follow-up fundraising raised more than $54,400.  On Friday, The Kempe Foundation received a check for $27,238.60 from the event.