{"id":1320113,"date":"2020-05-20T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=996531"},"modified":"2020-05-20T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:00:14","slug":"garfield-county-awards-25000-in-2nd-quarter-discretionary-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/garfield-county-awards-25000-in-2nd-quarter-discretionary-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield County awards $25,000 in 2nd quarter discretionary grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/UpRootColorado-rct-092619-3-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/UpRootColorado-rct-092619-3-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/UpRootColorado-rct-092619-3-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/UpRootColorado-rct-092619-3-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/UpRootColorado-rct-092619-3-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>UpRoot Colorado volunteers glean fruit from a Garfield County orchard to donate to LIFT-UP food pantries.<\/strong><br \/><em>File photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Garfield County commissioners recently awarded $25,000 in quarterly discretionary grants to qualifying area nonprofit and educational organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of County Commissioners, at its May 11 meeting, unanimously approved six grant requests, as well as a joint request from the Garfield County Public Library District and Colorado Mountain College (CMC) to improve access to internet services.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing its efforts to bolster area food pantry distributions, county commissioners agreed to award $5,000 to UpRoot Colorado for its charitable crop gleaning efforts.<\/p>\n<p>UpRoot Colorado collects fresh fruits and vegetables from Garfield County\u2019s farms, backyard gardens and fruit trees and donates them to the LIFT-UP food pantries throughout the county.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition, Garfield County Libraries and CMC were awarded $2,500 toward the launch of a wi-fi hotspot-lending program that assists residents and students without internet access. The project comes as the COVID-19 public health response has moved K-12 and college education delivery, job functions and government services to online platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The program aim to create 45 hotspots with data for the public to use on a library loan basis. The library district and CMC in Rifle are providing $5,000 and $2,500, respectively, to support the program. The hotspots are loaned to customers in a similar manner as books are lent.<\/p>\n<p>Other nonprofit recipients of second-quarter grants are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liberty Classical Academy \u2014 $5,000 toward the school\u2019s theatre arts program<\/li>\n<li>Youth Water Leadership Program \u2014 $2,500 to fund watershed literacy for local students<\/li>\n<li>Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra \u2014 $2,500 to help cover scholarships for music lessons and training<\/li>\n<li>Lower Valley Trail Association (LOVA) \u2014 $5,000 toward its trail-building efforts between Glenwood Springs and New Castle through South Canyon<\/li>\n<li>West Elk Trails \u2014 $2,500 for winter recreation trails management expenses for the 2020-21 season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Garfield County\u2019s quarterly discretionary grants are made available to local nonprofits and governmental entities, and are capped at $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>The county allocated $120,000 for 2020 out of its discretionary grant fund. The $25,000 the board awarded this quarter, coupled with $27,500 in first-quarter grants awarded in February, leaves a balance of $67,500 in the fund for the third and fourth quarters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/garfield-county-awards-25000-in-2nd-quarter-discretionary-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UpRoot Colorado volunteers glean fruit from a Garfield County orchard to donate to LIFT-UP food pantries.File photo Garfield County commissioners recently awarded $25,000 in quarterly discretionary grants to qualifying area nonprofit and educational organizations. The Board of County Commissioners, at its May 11 meeting, unanimously approved six grant requests, as well as a joint request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-03 21:54:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}