{"id":808223,"date":"2020-06-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=384703"},"modified":"2020-06-09T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:00:00","slug":"vail-resorts-ceo-announces-3-5-million-in-grants-for-covid-19-efforts-racial-justice-reform-and-urban-youth-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/vail-resorts-ceo-announces-3-5-million-in-grants-for-covid-19-efforts-racial-justice-reform-and-urban-youth-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vail Resorts CEO announces $3.5 million in grants for COVID-19 efforts, racial justice reform and urban youth programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz and his wife, Elana Amsterdam, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vailresorts.com\/corporate\/vail-resorts-ceo-to-donate-117-million-from-sars-exercise-announces-grants-to-support-covid-19-efforts-racial-justice-reform-and-youth-access.htm\">have announced $3.5 million in grants<\/a> to support COVID-19 efforts, racial justice reform and programs for urban youths. <\/p>\n<p>The announcements followed Katz\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vailresorts.com\/corporate\/letter-from-vail-resorts-ceo-we-are-part-problem.htm\">email to employees addressing the current social unrest surrounding racial injustice<\/a>. In the email, titled \u201cWe are Part of the Problem,\u201d Katz calls for Vail Resorts and the industry as a whole to prioritize making the sport more diverse and inclusive. <\/p>\n<p>Katz and Amsterdam\u2019s grant announcements include $1 million to Tulane University School of Medicine to expand and improve COVID-19 testing in the region, $500,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative, $500,000 to the Know Your Rights Camp and $1.5 million to youth organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/vail-resorts-ceo-announces-3-5-million-in-grants-for-covid-19-efforts-racial-justice-reform-and-urban-youth-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz and his wife, Elana Amsterdam, have announced $3.5 million in grants to support COVID-19 efforts, racial justice reform and programs for urban youths. The announcements followed Katz\u2019 email to employees addressing the current social unrest surrounding racial injustice. In the email, titled \u201cWe are Part of the Problem,\u201d Katz calls [&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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 20:36:39","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\/808223","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=808223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}