Jackson donors raise $500,000 for CES headquarters

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Community Entry Services this week announced they have paid off the mortgage on their home office in Jackson, an achievement that will help the nonprofit continue to thrive in a shaky fiscal environment.

In October 2021, CES announced the receipt of an anonymous $500,000 donation allocated to help eliminate CES’s $1 million mortgage on their day program headquarters where community members with disabilities receive vocational and daily living skill services. The donation kicked off a months-long campaign to raise matching funds that would ultimately pay off the entirety of CES’s million-dollar mortgage.

Led by Dawn Hummel, a longtime advocate of people with disabilities and supporter of CES; and Carolyn Worth, CES’s Jackson director at the time; the capital campaign raised $500,000 and CES now proudly owns its building, securing their future in Jackson.

“The fact that an anonymous donor would create such an amazing opportunity for CES made it impossible for me not to help,” says Dawn Hummel, capital campaign chair. “It was an honor to fulfill this dream for CES and witness the community come together to support adults with disabilities in Jackson.”

Thank you to the donors who made this purchase possible:

• Anonymous (3)
• Anita & Julian Saul Foundation
• Annie Newcomb
• Blue Collar Restaurant Group
• Brown Baker Donor Fund
• David & Debby Hopkins Foundation of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
• David & Leslye Hardie Charitable Trust
• David NeVille
• Diane and Robert Klemme
• Dmitry & Rebecca Balyasny
• Opatrny Family Foundation
• First Interstate Bank
• First Republic Bank
• Geoffrey & Gina Baldwin
• Greg & Eileen Prugh
• Gregg & Catherine Ward
• Howell A. Breedlove Charitable Foundation
• John & Jacque Jarve
• Karen & Peter Warshaw
• Katharine Conover-Keller & Fred Keller
• Leslie Mattson
• Mark & Terri Snell
• McKee Family Foundation
• Mendenhall Family Fund
• Mickey Babcock
• Morken Family Giving Fund
• National Christian Foundation
• Newton Foundation
• Sally & Cal Frese Charitable Trust
• William & Teresa Waterman
• & Mrs. Whitley