{"id":803134,"date":"2020-01-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=377363"},"modified":"2020-01-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T19:00:00","slug":"the-summit-foundation-distributes-more-than-1-million-in-grants-to-local-nonprofits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/the-summit-foundation-distributes-more-than-1-million-in-grants-to-local-nonprofits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summit Foundation distributes more than $1 million in grants to local nonprofits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Silverthorne office of the Family and Intercultural Resource Center is one of 58 beneficiaries of The Summit Foundation\u2019s fall 2019 grant cycle, in which more than $1 million was disbursed to local nonprofits.<\/strong>
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FRISCO \u2014 The Summit Foundation, Summit County\u2019s largest local philanthropic organization, has announced the distribution of nearly $1.03 million in grants to 58 local nonprofits during its end-of-year grant cycle.<\/p>\n

The Summit Foundation awarded grants based on the contributions the organizations made to one of the foundation\u2019s four \u201cimpact areas\u201d: healthy and safe communities, bright futures, arts and culture, and environmental stewardship.<\/p>\n

In a news release, foundation officials said the grants will fund a plethora of community projects, including renovations for Francie\u2019s Cabin, ski and snowboard programs for local at-risk youths, child advocacy, disaster relief and support for local theater programming. The grants were made possible by more than 3,000 donations from businesses and individuals, according to the release. <\/p>\n

Five grants also were awarded in partnership with Vail Resorts\u2019 EpicPromise foundation to Breckenridge Montessori, High Country Conservation Center, Lake Dillon Preschool, Summit County Preschool and Timberline Learning Center.<\/p>\n

Among the grantees are the Eagle Summit Wilderness Alliance and the Family & Intercultural Resource Center.<\/p>\n

Wilderness Alliance board member and former chairman Bill Betz said the $10,500 grant his organization received will go toward building a boardwalk across a wetland on the Mesa Cortina trail near the Wildernest neighborhood. Betz said the boardwalk will honor the memory of Beau Schuette, a Mesa Cortina resident who died unexpectedly in 2017. <\/p>\n

Schuette\u2019s family, which Betz said has owned a cabin in Mesa Cortina for over 50 years, also has raised some money on their own to do something to honor his memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis combination of funds will help build a boardwalk across a wet area of the Mesa Cortina trail,\u201d Betz said. \u201cDuring wet seasons, people try to get around the wet area and wind up creating social trails all around it. That gets messy and degrades the quality of the hiking experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boardwalk is expected to be built by summer 2021 with a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and the Dillon Ranger District supervising.<\/p>\n

Family & Intercultural Resource Center Director Brianne Snow said her organization received $107,000 for its mission to help working families in Summit County. Snow said the grant will go a long way toward filling gaps in funding for existing and emerging community needs in three core areas of parenting support, early childhood services and food assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t serve the families that we do without (The Summit Foundation),\u201d Snow said.<\/p>\n

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The Silverthorne office of the Family and Intercultural Resource Center is one of 58 beneficiaries of The Summit Foundation\u2019s fall 2019 grant cycle, in which more than $1 million was disbursed to local nonprofits.Summit Daily File Photo FRISCO \u2014 The Summit Foundation, Summit County\u2019s largest local philanthropic organization, has announced the distribution of nearly $1.03 […]<\/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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 23:49:48","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}