THE LILY STORY:

 

Lily is a USDA certified organic grower and a USDA certified organic manufacturer of natural and USDA certified organic skin care products. Lily was the pioneer in organic skin care in Colorado, since 1986.    Lily Organics was the first and original Colorado organic skin care company.  A 7^th generation American grower, Lily’s family has been farming since before the American Revolution.

Lily learned respect for the land and the importance of hard work growing up on her Dad’s farm.  Wanting desperately to get off the farm as soon as possible, she dropped out of high school and moved to Boulder, Colorado, at 16 years old, with $132 dollars, and a used pair of skis.

She completed her high school at Emily Griffith Opportunity School in Denver.  She attended Metropolitan State College, while working 3 jobs at a time to support herself and put herself through college.

After graduating from college, at the tender age of 22, she founded the Senior Assistance Center in Denver and with no backing or capital; ( No trust funds or rich husband) she grew it into one of the most successful non-profit organizations in the region.  Later she gained the support of the Coors Foundation, Boettcher Foundation, Gates Foundation, Daniels Foundation, Johnson Foundation, John and Nancy Ross Foundation, and the City and County of Denver.

For 28 years, she employed over 30 people, raised over 15 million dollars to help the elderly poor in Denver.  The Senior Assistance Center has provided over a million acts of kindness to Denver’s older population.

During that same time, in 1986, she decided to start Lily Organics Fresh Skin Care.  It started as another labor of love and that same year she sold to the first Wild Oats store in Boulder and one of the first Vitamin Cottages.

Having an unending appetite for work, and boundless energy, she ran both companies for many years.  See below her education, philanthropic service, work history, and travel interests.

 

EDUCATION

2002  – Harvard Business School:  Executive Training Course

Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit

Organizations

2002  – Center for Creative Leadership Training

Colorado Springs, Colorado

1982 – 1988 -   Masters Degree in Public Administration

University of Colorado, Graduate School of Public Affairs

1977 – 1981 -   Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO

Bachelors of Science

1980                  –         Colorado State Real Estate License

1979                  -         Colorado State Drug/Alcohol Counseling Training

1975                  -         Emily Griffith, Denver, CO

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

2011 received USDA certified organic status on five organic skin care products

2010: Received USDA certified organic status for Lily Organics FDA inspected Laboratory to produce organic skin care

2008: Appointed as the trustee of the John and Nancy Ross Private Charitable Foundation

2006:  Lily was one out of 26 to be selected out of the millions of alumni of the Emily Griffith Opportunity School and featured by Carolyn Brink in her book Class Acts – Stories from Emily Griffith Opportunity 2005:

2005: Received USDA certified organic status on farm to grow USDA  organic  skin care ingredients

2006: The Senior Assistance Center was a “2006 Finalist for the Ethics in Business Samaritan Institute Award.”

2004-2006 Instructor- Colorado Free University teaching classes on making your own organic skin care.

2004: Adopted 9 year old  son as single parent.

2004: Finalist for Stevie Award for Women Entrepreneurs.

2003: Became certified foster parent.

2002: Received the Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business Award for Nonprofit Organizations.

2002: Chosen as a recipient of the National Presidential Daily Point of Light Award for January 03, 2002 by President Bush.

2002: The Senior Assistance Center was selected and featured by Channel 7-KMGH News as one of the top seven nonprofit charitable organizations in the region.

2002: Nominee for Ernest & Young Entrepreneurs of the year award.

2001: Recipient of the University of Colorado at Denver Alumni Special Recognition Award. Two are chosen every year out of the millions of Alumni.

2001: Began service on the Board of Directors for the John and Nancy Ross Charitable Foundation.

2000: Nomination for the Mayor’s Millennium Award by Mayor Wellington Webb and the City and City County of Denver.

2000: Member of Channel 9 News Senior Advisory Council.

2000 to 2002    volunteer with the Adoption Exchange Program and semi-weekly volunteer at the Cleo Wallace Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado as mentor to a 10 year old boy.  Volunteer Denver Partners with At Risk Youth, Colorado Christian Home.

2000: Published Author of the book Beauty, Health and Happiness—A way of Life

1998: Co-founder of Tibetan Blues Bash since 1998.

1997-present- Lily Organics started supporting 5 Tibetans in a resettlement camp in Southern India

1996: Denver Partners volunteer senior partner.

1994: Chosen as the outstanding junior member of the Colorado Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

1993: Chapter Chairperson of the Scholarship Committee and the Good Citizens Committee of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

1993: Instructor-Colorado Free University.

1986:  Attended Colorado Herbal College-Boulder, Colorado.

1987: Recipient of Woman’s Day Magazine National Outstanding Heroines Award.

1986:  Founded Lily Organic fresh skin care.

1985: Original organizer and co-founder of the Northwest Denver Council for seniors.

1984: Served on the advisory board for the Colorado Department of Corrections.

1984: Received letter of appreciation for being a great American, from President Ronald Regan

For outstanding community involvement for services that enhances the lives of citizens.

1983: Served on the advisory board of Seniors, Inc., “Helping Older Adults Live Positively” program.

1981: Founded the Senior Assistance Center

Traveled extensively to six continents over 80 countries, – including South America, Central America, Caribbean, Europe, North Africa, Australia and Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos and the  Middle East, including, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.

 

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

November 1981 to 2009

Senior Assistance Center

2839 West 44th Avenue, Denver, CO 80211-1428

Position:          CEO & Founding Executive Director and Board Director

Duties included:  Implementation and facilitation of

all Administrations.  Supervision of 30 staff,

Fundraising, Public Relations, Policy, and Program

Services, including supervision of thirty employees,

and responsibility of raising $600,000-$1,000,000 annually. Helped over one million seniors in need.

January 1981 to July 1981

Corrections Evaluation and Treatment Program

1912 Mariposa Street, Denver, CO

Position:   Drug/Alcohol Counselor

Duties included:  Group and individual drug/alcohol

therapy with incarcerated inmates.

June 1980 to June 1981

Williams Street Center

1776 Williams Street, Denver, CO

Position:    Counselor

Duties included:  Direct supervision of male inmates in

Work Release Program.

January 1977 to June 1977

S.E. Denver Probation Department

Denver, CO

Position:    Student Intern Probation Officer

Duties included:  Carrying full caseload of 100 felons

1976 to 1977

Colorado State Attorney General’s Office  1525 Sherman Street, Denver, CO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lily Morgan, Founder and Formulator of Lily Organics, is a farmer’s daughter.

Her dad was a farmer’s son, and his father was a farmer’s son back at least six generations to before American Revolution days. Lily’s own reverence for the land and all it produces came from her father and growing up on the farm. She remembers getting up in the middle of the night to light heaters under the trees to save them from a killer frost and learning to support tree limbs too heavy with fruit.

Lily’s sister, who loved exploring health food stores and always dragged Lily along, also inspired Lily’s interest in botanicals. Desperate to cure a bad case of acne at age fourteen, Lily realized that a) grocery store products and their higher-priced department store counterparts had exactly the same ingredients, b) none of these ingredients really worked to clear up her skin,and c) the health food store ingredients were truly different. Over the years,Lily experimented with different combinations of these ingredients, bought every book available on skin care and attended the Colorado Herbal College in Boulder, CO.
“I was having fun with herbs, making pineapple astringents, honey and papaya masks, putting almond, primrose and kukui oil in my hair. One herbal moisturizer I made was light and oil free with the benefit of nineteen different healing herbs. I was so enthusiastic about it, I considered marketing it. With encouragement from my mom and sister, I started my company. With more tenacity than brains, I plugged along. It was so vital to me that my products contain only pure, natural ingredients that I have trademarked the phrase Purely Botanical(TM ) to describe them.”

Today, 25 years later, the company produces nearly twenty different products. Based in Henderson, Colorado,Lily Organics Fresh Skin Care creates its handmade, organic skin care products incorporating ingredients from Lily’s USDA Certified Organic farm, essential oils from natural botanicals, and other organically grown herbs. Lily Organic Fresh Skin Care products are 100% non-synthetic and chemical free, and are freshly produced every week in the company’s FDA-inspected lab.

“For over twenty five years, Lily Organics has shared our vision for sustainable living. Mother Nature is the best cure for Father Time! It is the most powerful force on the planet. We have collected the very essence and life force of the plants to bring you the most effective skin care that gives you the results you demand.”
Lily Morgan, founder and formulator of Lily Organics