Colorado Spaces Institute

Colorado Spaces Institute is a Colorado-based private, independent, apolitical think tank focused on raising the standard of living in Colorado and beyond, dedicated to implementing solutions for several of Colorado's "unsolvable" economic problems.
Colorado Spaces Institute owns a proprietary economic model called High Yield Economics, with a business-friendly business-based system view and transition plan to establish worldwide sustainable economies.
At the global level, it planned and manages a worldwide social inclusion program to validate the plan across social classes and cultures.
At the state level, the Colorado Spaces Institute has established a program to redress the rural Colorado economy called Color Colorado Art Institute. For Vermont, it designed another program to create sustainable housing and employment called Ride Free Vermont that is in early launch. The organization expects to move into a permanent space at the Denver International Airport.
Research Activities
The Institute is focused on responsible management, ethical capitalism, ISO 9001 and ISO 14000 global economics, solution economics, microeconomics, and sustainable economics.
History
The Colorado Spaces Institute was primarily the creation of Sandra Bowen. Research phase began in New York in 1996 by ExecutiveLink (the result was called the Framework and later transferred to Colorado Spaces Institute), with international ISO 9001 surveys of multinationals, including top banks, defense, nonprofits, libraries, transportation, communications, and other complex industries and included TickIT Guide, and TickIT Journal, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, SWIFT, and OCLC.
In 2003, after input validation by SWIFT VP, modeling and analysis began in Vermont, leading to the design of the High Yield Economic Model and several examples of Solution Economics, such as the Vermont Ride Free program.
Asia field research, 2005
The modeling project moved to Thailand, expecting to complete the design there. Asian work included interview and discussions with the Minister of Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, now renamed Ministry of Digital Economy and Society with input from Chiang Mai Consulate of the People’s Republic of China. However, a military soon occurred and the project retreated to the US and established itself in Colorado under its current name, Colorado Spaces Institute.
Focusing research on Colorado in 2006, the Institute extended modeling and designed a rural economic wellness program, Color Colorado, the program for Vermont, and the worldwide social inclusion program.
Color Colorado Art Institute
Colorado Spaces Institute's major initiative is the Color Colorado Arts Institute, an educational program that supports Colorado Parks and Wildlife, which is facing federal budget cuts from United States Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke. The parks do not receive direct revenue from the state, but from hunting and fishing license fees, which are primarily paid by those in older demographics, thus the need for other programs to support the parks has been noted by the editorial board of The Denver Post. Professional artists provided detailed template images of Colorado landscapes, parks, and wildlife to encourage greater intrastate tourism, since most of Colorado's resident population is concentrated in the Denver/Boulder area. The coloring books include guides to the parks. With professional artists as teachers, the institute teaches serious landscape art classes in public libraries, in both adult and family sessions, the former detailing information about the parks. As director Sandra Bowen told 's Ed Greene, the Institute discovered that children enjoyed coloring the complex images, although they would often add their own personal touches, such as dinosaurs, to them.
Funding, tax status, and corporate structure
Both for profit and non-profits for 501(c) programs

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