Education & Research
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The Institute is an educational and research organization which is focused on
increasing the quality of mental health education and treatment in Colorado
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The Institute is a community of psychoanalysts whose goals are to provide education
in psychoanalytic thinking and treatment techniques, to advance scholarship and
research, and to encourage application of psychoanalytic knowledge to related fields
of study
History & Governance
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Psychoanalytic education has been offered in Denver since 1956
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Until 1969 the Denver Training Center operated under the auspices of the Institute
for Psychoanalysis in Chicago
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The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis was granted provisional status by the
American Psychoanalytic Association in 1969 and was recognized as an Approved
Institute in 1972
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The Institute is a nonprofit corporation for which the Faculty serves as the Board of
Trustees
Affiliations
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The Department of Psychiatry at UCHSC
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The American Psychoanalytic Association
The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis is a 501(c)3 organization that relies
heavily on the voluntary faculty
Our faculty volunteers:
◦ hours each year teaching in our programs as well as the psychiatry residency program at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
◦ hours sitting on committees
◦ hours of pro-bono work
◦ Donate over $600 each annually to help support the daily operations of the Institute
If your provider graduated from the psychiatry residency at UCHSC during
the past 50 years, he or she benefited from and uses our training
Our current needs
◦ Operational expenses
◦ Board training
◦ Funding for programs in research, treatment studies, and educational loans
◦ Funding for part-time staff
◦ Facility / Capital
Colorado Gives Day is an annual statewide movement to celebrate and
increase philanthropy in Colorado through online giving. For the sixth year,
Community First Foundation and FirstBank are partnering to present
Colorado Gives Day on Tuesday, December 8, 2015. Donations are accepted
through ColoradoGives.org
◦ Colorado Gives Day is powered by ColoradoGives.org, a year-round website featuring more than 1,700 nonprofits. ColoradoGives.org encourages charitable giving by providing
comprehensive, objective and up-to-date information about Colorado nonprofits and an easy way to support them online.
◦ Colorado Gives Day features a $1 Million Incentive Fund, one of the largest gives-day incentive funds in the country.
◦ Every nonprofit receiving a donation on Colorado Gives Day receives a portion of the incentive fund, which increases the value of every dollar donated.*
◦ Colorado Gives Day. It’s more than just a day. It’s a movement that inspires and unites thousands of donors to support their favorite causes online through ColoradoGives.org.
◦ Give where you live on Colorado Gives Day, December 8, 2015.
◦ Can’t wait until Colorado Gives Day? Starting November 1, 2015, donations can be scheduled ahead of time.
However, for us to get incentive money – we
are asking everyone to schedule their
year-end Donation for Colorado Gives Day
(December 8
th
)
You don’t have to wait until the day of to
donate. You can schedule your donation
starting today!
You can make other donations anytime
Follow this link:
https://www.coloradogives.org/index.php?secti
on=organizations&action=newDonation&fwID=
27434
Go to
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and search
Making a one time
donation:
If you make a recurring
donation:
Select “Today” or
Select CO Gives Day
(for processing on December 8, 2015)
Enter how often
Start date
Click on
“Co Gives Day”
Note will
appear about
processing
now and
applied on
December 8th
Enter where you
want your
donation to go
If you want the
donation to be
anonymous
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name to appear
publically
If the donation
is in
honor/memory
of someone,
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Once you hit “Add to Cart” you will be shown your cart. You can either
checkout or make additional donations to other nonprofits within Colorado
Gives Website…or make other donations to the Institute in other areas.
Like most
websites, you
need to create
an account.
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An extra step, but
future donations to
the Institute and
others will be easy!
Just enter your
name, email
and create a
password
You can pay with
a credit card or
from a bank
account
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information
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appear below the
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box.
This letter is also sent
to the email address
you provided. Save it
for your taxes
Badge provided by
Colorado Gives Foundation
Link to “I Gave Early” included in donation
letter.
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December 8th donation letter.
Community First Foundation has four
primary social media pages for promoting Colorado Gives Day and
ColoradoGives.org (the online giving website for Colorado Gives Day):
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