A new year is here, a fresh start and a built-in time to reassess, take stock and set meaningful goals. We’re excited about 2015 for many reasons. First of all, our new stores are entering the year poised for success! (More about them to come later.) Second, each new year brings new opportunities for us…
Category: Community News & Charities
The Beauty of Business-Nonprofit Partnerships
It wasn’t too long ago that businesses and nonprofits held each other at arm’s length. Their mutual stereotypes held them apart: businesses were seen as self-centered entities that cared only for profit and nonprofits as dreamy, impractical do-gooders. But now, people are realizing that these stereotypes are far too limiting. Over recent years it’s become…
Giving Back Locally
One of the best things about being in business, to us, is the opportunity to do something meaningful and sustainable with money. Part of that, of course, means feeding our families and providing livelihoods for our workers; it means taking good care of our customers and helping them sleep well without breaking the bank. It…
Giving back to Mother Nature
Urbanity: It can evoke images of concrete, high-rises, traffic, iconic graffiti, fashion, technology and other manmade things. But it also means parks, lakes, historic trees, trails and rivers and the occasional spectacular sunset. At Urban Mattress, we care about the environment and good ole Mother Nature just like we care about our cities. We want…
Urban Reflections on Thanksgiving
It’s that time of year when we decide we’d better darn well be grateful for what we have… and then we overeat and go out to buy more stuff the very next day. Turkey, irony and retail madness aside, we’ve finally recovered from the weekend and thought we’d sit down and reflect on what we’re…
Meet Andy Magel – New Denver Sleep Professional
Meet Andy Magel, Urban Mattress Belcaro’s newest sleep professional. Andy joined the Urban Mattress team after 7 years in the non-profit world. Most recently, he ran a job-training program for men and women coming out of prison called Bud’s Warehouse. Andy was looking for some change and knew owners, Steve and Ethan, through some mutual…
Meet William Keller – Newest Urban Mattress Sleep Guru
World, meet William Keller, our newest sleep guru at Urban Mattress Vienna. Before his days in the mattress world began, William was teaching music, coaching, and running a string orchestra program for a small school. After getting married last summer, William realized he wanted to change career paths to something that would better support…
Erin Ivey Seeks Dreamy Sleep after “Dreamy Weather” Debut
At our Urban Mattress stores we have the opportunity to meet interesting people every day. Meet Austin’s “Urban Folk Songstress”, Erin Ivey. If you haven’t gotten to see Erin live like we have, here’s a little brag about her. Austin’s KUT radio claims Erin has “quietly become one of our city’s biggest critical successes.” Erin’s…
Fort Collins Urban Mattress Store Opens Saturday, August 24th
Meet the Henderson’s, owners of our newest Urban Mattress store in Fort Collins, Colorado opening this Saturday, August 24th. Bruce first discovered his love for business in college, and after spending 23 years in the non-profit world, he is getting to pursue his dream of making a difference in a community through operating his own…
Second Wind Fund and Cherry Creek Urban Mattress
One of the most rewarding parts of our commitment to give 2% of each purchase to local non-profits, is seeing the variety of ways that 2% can impact a community. One of the non-profits Cherry Creek Urban Mattress has partnered up with is Second Wind Fund. Their mission is to decrease the incidence of suicide in children and…