Welcome Home

Introducing English In Action's new Center for Communication

We are delighted to announce that English In Action’s new facility is now complete, and our doors are open. Our new Center creates a warm, welcoming, and productive learning environment for our students and tutors and ensures that everyone in our community has a place to feel heard, honored, and celebrated. If you have not yet had a chance to tour our facility, please do stop by to say hello!

Our new building is comfortable, colorful, well-lit, and offers a variety of flexible, state-of-the-art learning spaces. We are now able to deliver multiple programs at the same time, which will allow us to double the number of people we serve in the years to come.

We’ve built it, now let’s fill it! Please take a moment to watch this video, made one month before our grand opening, to learn more about the dreams our adult learners and volunteer English tutors have for English In Action’s future.

Thanks to the generosity of supporters like YOU, we raised $5.5 million in less than three years to make this dream possible. Unlike many capital campaigns that are funded by a few individuals, 437 donors came together to support our Welcome Home campaign. More than 50% of campaign donors were our adult learners and volunteer tutors, many giving their first – or largest – charitable donation ever. With widespread community support, we have made our shared vision of a welcoming new home for English In Action learners and tutors a reality.

“What we’ve done is astonishing. We raised $5.5 million for our new Center in 2.5 years. Of that, $4.5 million was raised from individual donors. We engaged a diverse group of campaign donors that come from all walks of life. It’s another example of how we bring people together for a common cause at English In Action.”

- Pat McMahon, Welcome Home supporter and Campaign Cabinet member

To view the complete list of donors who contributed to build the new Center for Communication, click HERE.

Relationships are built when we have common causes and share common spaces. English In Action’s new Center for Communication will allow hundreds more members of our community to make new friendships and acquire language skills that create a positive ripple effect throughout our Roaring Fork Valley.

Your investment in our $5 million capital campaign will provide English In Action with a much-needed new facility that demonstrates how seriously we take the work of creating community. For more information on the Center for Communication or to schedule a site tour, contact our Development Director, Heather Hicks Stumpf at heather@englishinaction.org or (970) 963-9200.

Welcome Home Team

Campaign Cabinet

LYNN NICHOLS, Chair

Lara S. Beaulieu

Patrick Curry

David Floria

Heather Hicks Stumpf

Susan Lodge

Pat McMahon

Alexandra Willins

Building Committee

GARY HARADA, Chair

Lara S. Beaulieu

David Floria

Robert Hubbell

John Keleher

Dyna Mei Sanchez

Yuani Ruiz