Do some good, have some fun at our 12th Annual Limelight Fundraiser! Ticket proceeds and donations directly support Project Helping’s mission to make volunteering ridiculously easy to improve our mental wellness.
April 30th, 2026
The Wellshire Event Center
3333 S Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80222
Join us from 5:30PM – 9:00PM
5:00 – 6:30 | Free drinks and appetizers
6:30 – 7:00 | Free food and socializing
7:00 | Inspiration & Awards… and other fun stuff!
8:45(ish) | Collect your winnings from the auction
Limelight is a key moment each year to come together around our mission and the impact of service on mental and community wellness. When you sponsor or attend Limelight, you are directly investing in the programs that make it possible for volunteers to show up and create tangible moments of support and connection.
Your support helps us keep participation accessible, expand our reach, and sustain the behind-the-scenes work that turns one night of celebration into year-round impact.
Speaker and 2026 Spotlight Innovation Award Winner, Johnny Crowder
Johnny Crowder is a suicide/abuse survivor, TEDx speaker, touring musician, Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, and the Founder & CEO of Cope Notes, a text-based mental health platform that provides daily support to users in more than 100 countries around the world. Armed with a decade of clinical treatment, a psychology degree from the University of Central Florida, and 10+ years of peer support and public advocacy experience through the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Johnny’s youthful vigor for mental health has impacted millions of lives across the globe.
Since his first keynote in 2011, Johnny’s refreshingly candid perspective has attracted praise from hundreds of outlets, including Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and even CNN World. Whether leading corporate wellness trainings or touring with his Billboard-charting heavy metal band, Prison, his infectious positivity and firsthand experience with multiple diagnoses uniquely equip him to provide realistic insight and inspiration amidst the pains of hardship with care, levity, and unconventional wit.
2026 Spotlight Impact Award Winner, Stephen Malloy Brackett — aka Brer Rabbit — is a Denver-based artist, organizer, and educator who has spent twenty years asking what music can actually do. He co-founded the platinum-selling Flobots, co-founded Youth on Record, and serves as Executive Director of both ONE Denver (the city’s Office of Nighttime Economy) and Foundation Music School in Fort Collins. He is a former Colorado Statewide Music Ambassador, a PBS producer and presenter, an adjunct professor at CSU, and the creator of The House Party — a platform for rebuilding the ecosystems that make politically grounded artists possible. He has always lived in Denver. That is not incidental.
