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November 21, 2024 - January 1, 2025

"What if giving to someone in need was as easy as buying a snack from a vending machine?"

 

Mark your calendars:
Celebrate Denver's holiday tradition of giving with new charities, new items and new festivities at the Cherry Creek Winter Wanderland Holiday Market
2nd Avenue and Fillmore Plaza, Denver 80206

 

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Light the World Giving Machines gives anyone, no matter their age or means, the chance to actively participate in a giving experience.

 

Meet our 2024 charity partners

Giving Machines Denver offers 30 options from five local and two international charities.

Canine Partners of the Rockies trains service dogs for Coloradans living with disabilities and places facility dogs that support adults and children through trauma and major life events.

Children's Diabetes Foundation helps families with children who have type 1 diabetes through financial support, education, and access to services and life-saving therapies and treatments.

Family Promise of Greater Denver helps families who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness, by providing temporary shelter, teaching clients employment skills and financial literacy, and providing childcare.

Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains helps refugees become self-sufficient and integrate with their new communities through programs focusing on asylee/immigration legal services and resettlement, foster care, adoption, school enrollment, employment navigation, senior services, and housing assistance.

Mile High United Way, the first United Way in the world, takes on critical human services issues facing our seven-county footprint including the Metro Denver, Boulder and Broomfield communities. The organization focuses on three interconnected community priorities: giving all children a strong start, supporting education and academic success, and creating economic opportunity for all.

International charity partner to be announced

International charity partner to be announced

FAQs about the Giving Machines Denver

Vending machines that make donating to charity as easy as buying a candy bar.

 

Items from 2023

2023 Charity Donations by the Numbers

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Colorado Hosting Asylum Network
The Delores Project
GLOBAL Down Syndrome Foundation
The Salvation Army
Volunteers of America
CWS
American Red Cross

Past charity partners

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The Delores Project Logo

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Global Down Syndrome Foundation Logo

Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver logo

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The Salvation Army Intermountain Division

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Volunteers of America Colorado Logo

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Mentors International logo

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Giving Machines Background

In 2017 the Giving Machine was born in response to a heartfelt question, "What if giving to someone in need was as easy as buying a snack from a vending machine?" The purpose of Light the World Giving Machines is to give anyone, no matter their age or means, the chance to actively participate in a giving experience.

Giving Machines have appeared in cities across the globe, capturing the attention of media, public officials, respected nonprofit organizations, business leaders, other faiths, and the public. In the past few years, hundreds of thousands of people have donated US$22 million in goods and services to care for those in need—around the block or around the world.

Light the World is the annual Christmas initiative of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is an invitation for all to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be a light to others during the Christmas season.

Media Coverage

DENVER (KDVR)

Nov. 6, 2023 | 7 charities stand to benefit from Denver giving machines.

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