Archive for April, 2011

Dates: May 1-31, 2011

Items in need: Food banks are in need of rice, spaghetti sauce, beans, canned fruit and baby diapers. Financial donations are used to buy items of need. 100 percent of money raised is used for buying food. Donate to The Summit Foundation through the Summit County Cares fund.

Food Donation Locations:
City Market in Dillon and Breckenridge
Post Offices in Frisco, Silverthorne and Dillon
Family & Intercultural Resource Center (FIRC)
The Summit Foundation

Goal: 10,000 pounds of food and $5,000 to benefit local food banks – Family & Intercultural Resource Center, Dillon Community Church, Father Dyer and Church of Christ

How donations help:

The food bank helped Dave when he was injured in a car accident and couldn’t work.

The food bank helped Kim keep food on the table when her husband left and refused to pay child support

The food bank helped Maria feed her three children when she was laid off and looking for a new job.

When the unexpected happens, food banks around Summit County are here to help.

Summit High School’s pre-collegiate program helps first generation students find their way to college

A program funded by The Summit Foundation…

Visit article from Summit Daily News, April 10, 2011

The Special Initiative Fund is created as a program of The Summit Foundation Endowment Fund and is funded from The Summit Foundation Endowment Fund.  The Special Initiative Fund allows the Board of Trustees to direct funds in a proactive fashion for projects that will have a significant and meaningful impact on the mission of The Summit Foundation. The intent of the Special Initiatives Fund is to support extraordinary, highly innovative programs or projects that will address community needs not currently being addressed and that will produce a lasting and significant impact by mobilizing resources that foster health and human service, education, art and culture, sports and recreation and environmental stewardship in Summit County.   The Summit Foundation Special Initiative Funding commitment may be for up to three years. 

 The Special Initiative application is available on the grants page of our website.