Howdy Neighbor Events

What do we do?

Howdy Neighbor Events is the 501c3 behind amazing creative and literacy events like Fort Collins Comic Con, Founded in FoCo, FoCo Book Fest, and BrainChange.

Fort Collins Comic Con is an arts, creator, and cultural literacy event aimed at empowering local creators at all levels, raising over $120K for the Poudre Libraries and $35K for the Alliance for Suicide Prevention so far.

Founded in FoCo is a pay-what-you-can annual week-long event bringing together startups, creatives, solopreneurs, nonprofits small businesses, students, entrepreneurs, and community members.

FoCo Book Fest is an annual celebration of local authors, creator literacy, writing, creativity, and storytelling.

BrainChange is the most unique speedy talk series you have ever encountered. Filled to the brim with smart speakers and raising money for mental health efforts.

Our Vision

Northern Colorado is filled with brilliant people doing amazing work in the worlds of art, entrepreneurship, literacy, education, and popular culture – we build events and curate communities to bring them together and provide a platform for them to share their best work.

Our Values

Because we serve the Northern Colorado community by way of a series of events, each of our event plans, activities, guests, and volunteers have to abide by a common set of grounding principles:

1. Representation Matters – we want each participant in our events to be able to recognize themselves in valued experts in our community.
2. Inclusive By Default – we want each participant in our events to feel welcome, valued, acknowledged, and honored for their presence in our community.
3. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations – we believe in the concept of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations – that is: everyone is welcome at our events and celebrated for their differences as well as their similarities.

Our Purpose

The ongoing purpose of Howdy Neighbor Events is to support, develop, and organize events that help promote the social welfare in Northern Colorado in the areas of art, entrepreneurship, literacy, education, and popular culture as a key human experience driven by the appreciation, intersection, and application of representation, inclusiveness, and diversity in the following ways:

1. Actively encourage and model an environment of diversity, inclusiveness, and representation at all created and curated events;
2. Facilitate the development and creation of Northern Colorado arts, entrepreneurship, literacy, education, and popular culture through creating and curating events;
3. Assist and facilitate other Colorado-based organizations that promote representation, inclusiveness, and diversity in the arts, entrepreneurship, literacy, education, and popular culture, and;
4. Provide, create, and curate opportunities, platforms, and events for representation, inclusiveness, and diversity in the arts, entrepreneurship, literacy, educational and popular culture spaces.