Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025!
Naturally Boulder became Naturally Colorado
Wow! What a year it has been. 2024 was monumental for our organization, and that is all thanks to our incredible community of thought leaders, innovators, and change makers.
Thank you for your continued commitment, time, energy, and effort towards our mission: to nurture conscious growth, leadership and innovation in the Colorado natural and organic products community.
Let’s take a look at some highlights from 2024:
- Naturally Boulder became Naturally Colorado! We are now serving the greater state of Colorado. Learn more about this transition.
- Colorado Food Works merged with Naturally Colorado. We celebrated this exciting transition at our ugly sweater holiday party in December!
- Ben Bacon, Founder of Lentiful, took first place at the Naturally Network National Pitch Slam in August. Winnie Lou took second place and Love, Plants took third!
- Naturally Colorado attended the first ever Newtopia Now in Denver and it was a huge success!
- Carlotta Mast, Elexis Schroder, Karyn Savory, Kazia Jankowski, Kristine Root, Rick DeSimone, Rob Dunsworth, Shawn Edwards and Tim Bradley joined the Naturally Colorado Board of Directors
- Launched the Behind the Brand series and dropped 3 features so far
- $8500 in cash prizes and $95,000 in free services provided to the winners of our 19th Annual Pitch Slam
- 70+ member products and services were featured through our Innovation Showcase at Pitch Slam, Spring Fling Showcase and various other Naturally Boulder/Colorado events
- 48 Forum Series meetings took place where members shared insights, best practices and brand collaborations
- Hosted 37+ events with 2,500+ attendance
2024 Annual Awards for distinguished community members:
- Steve Hoffman from Compass Marketing – Industry Leader of the Year
- Peggy Shell from Creative Alignments – Service Provider of the Year
- Chris Bentley – Conscious Business Catalyst
- Bobo’s – Brand of the Year
- Anna Zesbaugh from Hooch Booch – Emerging Brand of the Year
- Mad Agriculture – Lance Gentry Innovator of the Year
Naturally Colorado is thrilled to celebrate its 20th Anniversary in 2025, marking two decades of fostering growth and innovation in Colorado’s natural and organic products community.
This milestone underscores our commitment to achieving our five core goals. Together, we’re shaping a future that empowers brands to create a meaningful economic and social impact.
What’s happening in 2025? Mark your calendars:
- New member and partner orientation sessions
- Sign up for January’s session
- Office Hours with Mumford HR Consulting
- Schedule your call with Sharon
- Streamlining Success Webinars
- Beyond the Booth
- Expo West
- Forums
- Mentorship Matching Program
- Pitch slam – now called Naturally Rising “The Conscious Business Pitch Competition” and is happening on April 3rd this year!
- Apply to pitch now.
- Fall Fling – happening in the FALL this year, instead of a Spring Fling
As a friendly reminder, the following resources are available to YOU:
- Job board
- Corporate partner opportunities
- Slack channel
- Newsletter and social postings for our community
- Newsletter
- GlueUp training videos where you can learn to manage your member account, sign up for events, etc.
As we move into 2025, let’s not forget our North Star. Our 5 goals are:
- Cultivate a statewide ecosystem to inspire and support the next generation of natural and organic brands with the economic impact to match
- Enhanced Resources and Support
- Expanded Connection and Collaboration
- Improved Diversity and Inclusion
- Promote Purpose-Driven Leadership and Conscious Business Practices
Stay informed
- Sign up for our newsletter where we share all our events and programming plus community member highlights
- Follow Naturally Colorado Social Media