Former PPLD Foundation director receives lifetime achievement award

Dolores Cromeens to receive top fundraising honor after 15 years of service

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – The Pikes Peak Library District Foundation's former top officer will receive the region's highest fundraising honor this week.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals Southern Colorado Chapter will award Dolores "Dee" Cromeens with its Lifetime Achievement Award on Sept. 28 at the organization's annual Summit on Philanthropy.

Cromeens retired this year after serving as the executive officer of the Pikes Peak Library District Foundation and the chief development officer for the Pikes Peak Library District since 2003. Her notable achievements over her three decades of development work earned Cromeens this prestigious award from the region's foremost development organization.

“While we are elated for Dee, this comes as no surprise to us,” said Lance James, newly appointed executive director of the Pikes Peak Library District Foundation. “Her fundraising and philanthropy skills remain second to none, and we feel she is quite deserving of this high honor.”

This year's AFP summit will be held in Berger Hall on the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given only occasionally to those individuals that have provided “exceptional service to the fundraising profession and the philanthropic community,” according to the association's website. It is the chapter’s highest honor and has only been awarded twice previously.

“PPLD has been able to achieve much of our regional impact due to Dee’s tireless effort on behalf of the organization,” James said. “We owe much of where we are today to her dedication to our mission, to seek, engage, and transform the Pikes Peak Region.”

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Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is a nationally recognized system of public libraries serving a population of more than 623,000 in El Paso County, Colorado. With 14 facilities, online resources, and mobile library service, PPLD responds to the unique needs of individual neighborhoods and the community at large.