Project Name: Enrichment Wednesday Expansion
Project Description: Collaborate with Roaring Fork School District (RFSD) to expand its new Enrichment Wednesday program, aimed at enriching the lives of K-8 students:
- Identify & recruit weekly community programming for students
- Develop a model applicable to other school districts, using RFL’s experience to inform the program’s design elsewhere.
Project Name: CORE/Engaging Low-Income Homeowners in Energy Efficiency Programs
Project Description: Reach,” a program of the Community Office for Resource Efficiency, is designed to support low-income families by providing them with funding, coaching and services to
assist in upgrading the efficiency, comfort, and safety of their home. The project includes assistance in outreach, marketing, education, and enrollment for thirty Reach participants.
Project Name: Garfield County Libraries Love Our Locals
Project Description: Garfield County Libraries needs help promoting a “Buy Local” campaign in support of public libraries and local businesses during the month of February 2015. The project would entail designing promotional materials and recruiting local businesses to participate in a discount program for anyone showing a Garfield County Library card.
Project Name: Habitat for Humanity RFV: Up-Valley Strategic Plan
Project Description: Habitat for Humanity RFV has partnered with a growing number of low-income families to construct affordable homes down valley, but is virtually unknown up valley except to home/hotel owners who donate furnishings to our ReStores. Habitat RFV would be delighted to partner with the RFL Class of 2015 to develop a strategic plan for raising Habitat’s up-valley awareness, presence and effectiveness.
Project Name: PRE COLLEGIATE PARENT CURRICULUM
Project Description: The Roaring Fork Pre-Collegiate Program is looking for assistance crafting and presenting its Parent curriculum. The Pre-Collegiate Program is an academic and extracurricular enrichment program designed to aid motivated students in 7th-12th grades who are “first generation”: meaning they would be the first in their family to attend college. Now in its 11th year, the Program is expanding its programming in an attempt to ensure that its students have the best chances of succeeding in a college environment. A large part of this is to ensure that the parents of students enrolled in the program themselves have the knowledge and commitment to best support their kids during the application process and beyond. The program has done parent education in the past but is looking to formalize a curriculum to be used on an annual basis. The project would consist of reviewing available materials, determining best practices, crafting or preparing handbooks or other literature, and presenting material at monthly or bi-monthly evening parent meetings during the school year.
