Grants Approved - Dec 2020
December 2020 - Grants Approved Total $13,680
Mountain Village Montessori Charter School $2,000. To acquire technology (specifically 2 laptops for teachers and 2 chrome books for students) in order to meet the increased needs related to remote learning. Ensuring access to technology is critical to remote learning and all 135 of Mountain Village Montessori Charter School students benefit from increased availability of resources.
NW Colorado BOCES $1,000. To help purchase an Otoacoustic Emissions Device that provides hearing information that is accurate and diagnostic in nature. This device will help NW BOCES to provide hearing screenings for public school preschools as well as private preschools when asked. Undetected hearing loss is a barrier to learning, developing heathy relationships, and to experiencing the world to its fullest.
Yampa Valley Parkinson’s Support Network $500. To assist in the cost of providing exercise classes, educational opportunities, and support groups for those with Parkinson’s Disease and their caregivers in the Yampa Valley free of charge.
Bee The Future $1,000. To help purchase appropriately sized bee suits and gloves to properly conduct bee keeping lessons for young children all the way through high-school aged adults. Bee the Future empowers youth by teaching the skills necessary to become beekeepers as well as educating youth about saving the honeybee population and protecting pollinators.
Young Tracks $1,600. To purchase and replace 20 sleeping cots for their two toddler classrooms. The cots are of high quality to withstand daily cleaning and bleaching and are anticipated to last at least 15 years. Young Tracks serves an average of 120 families.
Integrated Community $1,500. For the purchase of educational materials for their Learning Boxes. The Learning Box Program is a free, home-based educational program for any family with 3 to 5-year-old children. The program strives to provide children with a common set of enriching experiences for a lifetime of learning, to support and assist parents in enriching their child’s life with meaningful experiences, and to help strengthen the relationships between the public school, the families and community agencies.
The Haven Assisted Living $1680. To pay for an additional staff member for 4 weeks to support residents at the Haven with one-on-one exercise and activities, visiting with them, and helping them connect to family virtually. Due to safety requirements, residents must remain isolated from each other and visits are restricted so more staffing is needed.
REPS (Reaching Everyone Preventing Suicide) $1,100. Support for new youth outreach program in the Routt County schools to address mental health and suicide with teens. This outreach group is student designed using youth advocates to support fellow students. The group will be compromised of 12-20 students and meet bi-monthly with REPS.
Friends of the Chief Foundation $500. To support the upcoming series of pop-up performance events, “Broadway in the Mountains”. This is a five-performance series at different popular locations and consist of youth talent performing ballet, tap, and theatrical dance as well as musical theater, improv, sketch comedy, monologues, and scripted scenes. The series will be free event to include all the community.
Partners in Routt County $1,800. To purchase 25 Huggers (a doll with long arms and weights that stimulates the sensation of a hug) and 50 DIY STEM activity kits to support youth mental health as well as provide educational benefits while partners are distant from one another.
Yampatika $1,000. To purchase videoing and web conferencing equipment to help create and deliver quality distant learning to their school based program participants. The school based programs are a key piece of Yampatika’s mission to environment stewardship through education.