Stone Soup 2024
Gathering Community, Nourishing Children
We had an amazing 10th Annual Stone Soup fundraising breakfast!
This year we celebrated 10 years of convening childhood leaders and supporters through Stone Soup! Our 2024 event focused on innovation, which is key to each of our strategic initiatives: Program Excellence, Workforce Enhancement, and Community Building. After 10 years of Stone Soup, our children and families continue to thrive because of the creative strategies that Mile High Early Learning is implementing to increase access to high quality early care and education for under-resourced children and families.
Guests learned about our new “Growing the Early Childhood Workforce” program to recruit and train early childhood teachers and help them access our existing continuing education programs that have proven to successfully launch new early learning professionals. Watch this video to learn more!
Elizabeth Groginsky – New Mexico’s Cabinet Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Care, discussed her work to transform the state’s child care system, and Marlene De La Rosa and Jenalee Ceballos Romo shared about the innovative programs and partnerships that have helped their children and families thrive. Click here to view photos from the event!
Thank you for joining us at Denver Botanic Gardens and supporting innovation in early childhood education!
Download the sponsorship packet!
If you have questions, contact Nathan Harlan, director of development, at nathanh@milehighearlylearning.org or 303-962-2634.
Become a sponsor or purchase tickets!
Use the links below to make your sponsorship donation or to purchase tickets!
Event Sponsorship and Tickets (click on the sponsorship level or ticket link below to access payment links)
Commis Chef Sponsor ($1,500)
Program recognition & a table for 10
Chef de Partie Sponsor ($2,500)
Program recognition, table for 10, & more
Sous Chef Sponsor ($5,000)
Program recognition, ad, table for 10, & more
Executive Chef Sponsor ($7,500)
VIP event recognition, table for 10, & more
Chef de Cuisine Sponsor ($10,000)
Premier recognition, event banner, table for 10, & more
Stone Soup Presenting Sponsor ($15,000)
Premier recognition, speaking opportunity, table for 10, & more
PURCHASE TICKETS FOR STONE SOUP!
Tickets are $150 per person. Include your name and the number of tickets with your order.
DONATE TO STONE SOUP!
Checks may be made payable to Mile High Early Learning and mailed to:
ATTENTION: Stone Soup Breakfast
Mile High Early Learning
616 East Speer Boulevard
Denver, Colorado 80203
For more information, contact Nathan Harlan at nathanh@milehighearlylearning.org or 303-962-2634.
Thanks to our 2024 sponsors!
Presenting Sponsors
Alix and John
Corboy
Executive Chef Sponsor
The Barton Family Foundation
Sous Chef Sponsors
Rob and Sharon Link
Dave and Debbie Younggren
Chef de Partie Sponsors
Mile High United Way
Pamela Harris and Brad Clemmons
Trinware
Barb and John Astuno
The Colorado Trust
Commis Chef Sponsors
Adele and Gerry Phelan
Susan Burks
Lynea Hansen
Gary Philanthropy
Mike Johnson and Carol Friesen
Philanthropy Expert
The Standard
Why Stone Soup?
Mile High Early Learning started with a concept developed by Anna Jo Haynes over 40 years ago. In the decades that followed, that concept – which is the stone in our stone soup – has been seasoned by partnerships, civic leaders, communities, volunteers, friends and families, enabling Mile High Early Learning to satisfy a growing hunger and need for subsidized, quality early childhood care and education.
Over the years, new ingredients have been added to our “soup” resulting in improved methods of teaching, better health and social services for our children and their families, and a growing understanding of the power of cooperation and collaboration. These ingredients are what give Mile High Early Learning the flavor that it has today. They enable our “soup” to be shared in Denver’s poorest neighborhoods and our children a chance for a successful start in school.
To continue nourishing Denver’s children with the quality early childhood education they need and deserve, we need to add ingredients to this soup, enhance its flavor and make certain our pot remains full. Thank you for continuing to be a key ingredient in our success.
Visit our Stone Soup 2021 page to watch special guest readers share different versions of our favorite fable, or to see the video of our 2021 virtual event!