Anythink Foundation
The Anythink Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 that supports innovation and creativity in Adams County by raising private funds for special programs and projects at Anythink. This support helps the library continue its mission to “open doors for curious minds” as a dynamic center for engagement.
It’s through the help of individual donors like you that the Anythink Foundation is able to fund innovative projects and programs. Supporting the Foundation is easy.
Anythink Foundation is the trade name for Rangeview Library Friends Foundation, Inc. EIN 26-4630183
Plant the Seeds of Future Memories
When you give to the Anythink Foundation this Colorado Gives Day, you can help create new ways for people of all ages to explore, connect, and be inspired by nature at Anythink’s Nature Library opening later next year.
Thanks to the H. E. Grant Foundation, donations to the Anythink Foundation will be matched up to $5,000 for Colorado Gives Day!
What We Support
Funds raised by the Anythink Foundation support programs and services in four key areas:
- Capital projects
- Public art
- Expansion of collections
- Exceptional programs, activities and technology education
Interested in Becoming a Foundation Member?
Becoming a member of the Anythink Foundation means joining a community of people who care about curiosity, creativity and access for all. Your support helps bring new ideas to life and strengthens the role Anythink plays in our neighborhoods.
Membership
$39 annual membership
Become a member today and enjoy:
- A welcome package
- Recognition in our annual report
- Occasional insider updates and opportunities
- Discounts and invitations to member-focused events
- The chance to connect with others who value learning and community
Meet the Foundation Board
Sarah Ortegon HighWalking
About Sarah
Sarah Ortegon HighWalking is the assistant director of human resources at the Native American Rights Fund. She received her BFA from Metropolitan State University of Denver, where her work was and continues to be influenced by her Indigenous heritage and her relationship to the land. In addition to her work at the Native American Rights Fund, Ortegon HighWalking is an artist, actor and performer, having been featured in PBS’s “The Art of Home: A Wind River Story,” and as an extra in popular shows “Jamestown” and “1923.” In 2013, she was titled Miss Native American, USA, where the focus of her platform was healthy living. She has traveled worldwide as a jingle dress dancer with the Native Pride Dance Troupe. In March 2020, Ortegon HighWalking collaborated with Choctaw artist Jeffery Gibson and performed in Times Square for the Midnight Moment installation titled, “She Never Dances Alone.” She was also featured in the “Women to Watch” Exhibit in 2024 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Since 2022, Ortegon HighWalking has been a member of the Anythink Nature Library Advisory Council, helping to inform the design and programming for this first-of-its-kind library.
Dennis Humphries
About Dennis
Dennis Humphries AIA has practiced architecture for nearly 50 years with a primary focus on re-imagining the public library into a 21st century resource. Having been the author of over 135 public library projects across the U.S., Humphries is considered a thought leader and passionate champion of library design. He has been involved with Anythink since its inception as the architect for six of its libraries. Humphries also advised on the site selection and initial programming phases for the Anythink Nature Library.
Humphries has been invited to speak at global library design forums, and his work has been honored in several library awards programs, including Library Journal’s “Landmark Libraries” for Anythink Wright Farms (Thornton, Colo.) and 21C Library (Colorado Springs, Colo.); ALA/IIDA for the Community Library (Ketchum, Idaho; and the Ruby M. Sisson Library (Bayfield, Colo.) as Library Journal’s “Best Small Library in America.”
Amy Miranda
About Amy
Amy Miranda is senior account executive with Comcast Advertising, serving 60+ markets and millions of dollars in campaigns for various clients. Her extensive TV advertising career started at WDIV in Detroit, and KDVR, KCNC and Comcast in Denver. She is a three–time Comcast President’s Club winner, recognized for her outstanding performance. Miranda learned the value of work ethic, communication, and compromise growing up in a nine-person, Navy family along the California coast. Miranda graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s in psychology, where she met her husband and moved to Colorado. They have raised their family in Adams County, and Anythink Wright Farms has been their local library.
Zoe Ocampo
About Zoe
Zoe Ocampo is a creative, strategic marketer with great experience working with arts organizations in the private, nonprofit and public sectors.
She was the marketing director at the Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus for 13 years and helped the small museum become a world-class institution through a capital campaign, expansion and rebrand in 2015.
In 2019 she was hired to build the new Cultural Arts Division for Adams County. Her division runs the county’s arts initiatives, public art projects through the Percentage for the Arts Program, and cultural programming like the Adams County Poet Laureate Residency in partnership with Anythink Libraries.
Her projects have won numerous awards, and she has spoken at conferences and TedX Cherry Creek on using the arts to make big, bold change in the world.
Maura O'Neal
About Maura
Maura O’Neal brings nearly two decades of strategic communications and community leadership experience to the Anythink Foundation board. As a senior director at GroundFloor Media, she specializes in communications and crisis management. A proud graduate of Colorado State University and the University of Colorado, O’Neal has built her career across multiple agencies and Colorado’s higher education and nonprofit sectors, developing expertise in integrated communications and strategic counsel that she’s eager to apply in service of Anythink’s mission.
O’Neal’s commitment to her community runs deep, particularly her longstanding support of the library system throughout its remarkable evolution from Rangeview Library District to Anythink Libraries. Since moving to Commerce City in 2005, she has long benefitted from the library’s innovative approach to community engagement and programming and now delights in sharing that same excitement and value with her own children. Previously, O’Neal served as president of the Commerce City Cultural Council, where she takes special pride in helping launch the free, annual Music in the Park concert series and the city’s public art program. She was also a founding board member and past chair of The STEAD School, a free, public charter school focused on learning made real through the lens of agriculture. She currently serves on the board of trustees for The Christian Foundation.
Emma Mantooth
About Emma
Emma Mantooth is the Communications Manager at the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), a cultural tax district that funds more than 300 arts, culture, and science nonprofit organizations across the Denver metro area. Prior to joining SCFD, Mantooth was a Program Director and Fellow at El Pomar Foundation, where she led the Communications team and supported the foundation’s Awards for Excellence, American Council of Young Political Leaders, and Internship programs in addition to facilitating place-based grantmaking in the North and Southeast regions of the state. She holds two undergraduate degrees in Spanish and Communication Arts with an emphasis in Strategic Communication from Western Colorado University.
Mantooth is an avid reader and grew up toting armfuls of books out of Anythink Wright Farms, her local library. A graduate of CBCA’s Leadership Arts 2024-2025 cohort, she reconnected with Anythink at the program’s board fair and is thrilled to serve on the Anythink Foundation Board of Directors. Mantooth believes in the power of public libraries to foster community, curiosity, and connection, and is looking forward to supporting Anythink’s innovative efforts to serve the residents of Adams County.