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Home My WebLink Aboutresolution.council.046-26RESOLUTION N0.046 (Series of 2026) A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO9 APPROVING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GRANTS REVIEW COMMITTEE AND GRANTS STEERING COMMITTEE TO PROVIDE GRANT SUPPORT TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SERVING THE ASPEN COMMUNITY. WHEREAS, the Aspen area is fortunate to have many nonprofit organizations that support the community, and WHEREAS, City Council has established an overall program philosophy for the grants program, supported by strategic focus areas for each grant program; and WHEREAS, City council has established a grants steering committee to support the City's grants program; and WHEREAS, said steering committee has established three volunteer review committees to assess and sore submitted applications for alignment with the overall grants program philosophy and strategic focus areas and other review criteria; and WHEREAS, these volunteer review committees in conjunction with the grants steering committee, have issued recommendations of funding for the consideration of City Council. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO, That the City Council of the City of Aspen hereby approves the total funding recommendations of $2,186,456 attached hereto as Exhibit A. RESOLVED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED FINALLY by the City C of the City of Aspen on the 14th day of April, 2026. 44 Iq I Ra hael Richards, May I, Nicole Henning, duly appointed and acting Ci ty Clerk do certify that the foregoing is Council oe City�of Aspen, Nicole Henning, City Cl CITY OF ASPEN 2026 Final Funding Awards 1 Arts and Culture *All AC grants are awarded for atwo-year funding term. Organization Ask Award AIF - Aspen Indigenous Foundation $177100 $13,500 Anderson Ranch Arts Center $75,000 $51,500 Aspen Art Museum $100,000 $771600 Aspen Chapel $87000 $6,700 Aspen Choral Society $10,000 $87100 Aspen Community Theatre $19,943 $141300 Aspen Dance Connection $111189 $61900 Aspen Film - Independent Films Inc. $100,000 $73,500 Aspen Fringe Festival $15,000 $9,300 Aspen Historical Society $60,000 $457000 ASPEN LEGACY MEDIA FOUNDATION $497900 - Aspen Music Festival and School $100,000 $80,300 Aspen Public Radio - Roaring Fork Public Media $100,000 $72,900 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet $100,000 $40,900 Aspen Words - The Aspen Institute $75,000 $571100 AspenOUT - Roaring Fork Gay and Lesbian Fund $79,998 - Buckhorn Public Arts $407000 $26,300 Carbondale Arts - Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities $30,000 $17,200 Carbondale Clay Center $75,000 $403900 Colorado Mountain College Foundation - So ris Theater Company$8,000 $5,700 CRYSTAL RIVER YOUTH BALLET COMPANY $4,250 - Dance Aspen $597000 $41,200 High Country Sinfonia $3,500 $27800 Inspire Aspen Foundation $15,000 $10,600 Jazz at Aspen Snowmass $1003000 $75,100 Justice for Migrant Women $75,000 - KDNK - Carbondale Community Access Radio $757000 $40,900 Resnick Center for the Herbert Bayer Studies $75,000 $40,900 Roaring Fork Friends of the Theatre - Thunder River Theatre Company$75,000 $40,900 Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra $18,000 $11,300 Rock and Roll Academy Aspen $10;000 $7,000 427 Rio Grande Place Aspen, CO 81611-1975 I Phone: 970-920-5000 1 aspen.gov CITY OF ASPEN Soldner Center The Art - TACAW The Arts Campus at Willits Theater Masters Theatre Aspen $1,9420479 MOMMIKEM 427 Rio Grande Place Aspen, CO 81611-1975 � Phone: 970-920-5000 � aspen.gov d CI I Y OF ASPEN 2026 Final Funding Awards I Community Nonprofit (CNP) *All CNP grants are awarded for eons -year funding term. Organization Z Ask Award Access AfterSchool $37,500 $11,100 Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program $10,000 $81500 Aspen Camp for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing $101000 - ACES - Aspen Center for Environmental Studies $30,000 $30,000 Aspen Cycling Club Inc. $6,000 - Aspen Journalism $30,000 $11,100 Aspen Junior Golf Foundation $467000 - Aspen Science Center $35,000 $317900 Aspen Sister Cities Program, Inc. $20,000 $11,100 Aspen Valley Land Trust $50,000 $16,700 Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club $30,000 $28,900 Aspen Youth Center $35,000 $16,700 Basalt Education Foundation $371500 $167700 Callie's Backyard Foundation Inc. $103000 - Carbondale Community Nonprofit Center / Third Street Center $20,000 - Challenge Aspen $10,000 $8,200 College Outreach $10,000 $8,400 Colorado Fourteeners Initiative $5,000 - Dance Initiative $24,850 $11,100 Early Learning Center of Aspen $47,000 $16,700 English in Action $127000 $11,900 Explore Booksellers, a project of the Center for Public Interest Research $20,000 - FocusedKids $321366 $16,700 FOREST CONSERVANCY $11,000 $107200 Friends of CAIC $10,000 $93100 Gentlemen of Aspen Rugby Football Club $12,000 - GrassRoots Community Network $45,000 $11,100 High Country Volunteers $257000 - Huts for Vets $10,000 $87200 Independence Pass Foundation $16,350 $143800 Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation $5,000 - Raising A Reader Aspen to Parachute $26,549 $243600 Roaring Fork Cycling $87000 $6,900 27 Rio Grande Place Aspen, CO 81611-1975 1 Phone: 970-920-5000 1 aspen.gov CITY OF ASPEN Roaring Fork Leadership $35,000 $117100 RFMBA — Roaring Fork Mountain Bike Association $10;000 Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers $157000 $14,900 Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative $507000 $167700 Sopris Sun Inc. $37,500 $16700 Stepping Stones of the Roaring Fork Valley $157000 $15,000 Summit54 $377500 $117100 The Aspen Institute — Community Programs $207000 $18,200 TBP — The Buddy Program $20,000 $187700 The Farm Collaborative $377500 $167700 UpRoot Colorado $377500 $167700 Valley Settlement $187000 $16,500 Wilderness Workshop $107000 $97000 WindWalkers Equine Assisted Learning and Therapy Center $20,000 — YouthEntity $25,000 — TOTAL $1,125,115 $521,900 2026 Final Funding Awards � Community Nonprofit Mini Grants All ('KIP Mini grants are awarded for cone -year funding term. Organization Ask Award Aspen Hall of Fame $51000 $5,000 EcoFlight $57000 $5,000 Holiday Baskets for the Roaring Fork Valley $5,000 $5,000 Junior Achievement — Rocky Mountain Inc. $5,000 $5,000 Ladies of Aspen $3,000 $37000 Project Graduation —Aspen High School $11500 $17500 Roaring Fork Show Up $57000 $57000 Roaring Fork Valley Storytellers $57000 $5,000 Rocky Mountain Sport Riders $4,900 — Spring Gulch Nordic Trail System — Mt. Sopris Nordic Council $5,000 $5,000 Science in Schools $57000P. — TOTAL $46,999 $39,500 427 Rio Grande Place Aspen, CO 81611-1975 I Phone: 970-920-5000 I aspen.gov CI T YOFASPEN 2026 Final Funding Awards 1 Health Cl" Human Services *All HHS grants are awarded for a one-year funding term. Organization Ask Award A Way Out, Inc. $25,000 $13,700 Alpine Legal Services, Inc. $207000 $9,500 Aspen Family Connections $30,000 $9,500 Aspen Hope Center $30,000 $24,800 Bridging Bionics Foundation LLC $77500 $6,000 CASA of the Ninth $107000 $87300 Catholic Charities and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Denver $30,000 $9,500 CHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION $5,000 - Community Health Services $297000 $25,000 Family Resource Center of the Roaring Fork Schools $10,000 $8,800 Food Bank of the Rockies $207000 $16,900 Great Expectations $30,000 $13,700 Harvest for Hunger $30,000 $25,700 High Rockies Harm Reduction Hospice of the Valley $30,000 $11,000 $9,500 $9,700 Kids Connect-Connectl $107000 - La Clinica Del Pueblo $257000 $21,900 LIFT UP $303000 $9,500 Mountain Family Health Centers $307000 $25,400 Mountain Valley Developmental Services $15,000 - Pathfinders $10,000 $8,800 Recovery Resources $307000 $9,500 Response $13,000 $127000 River Bridge Regional Center, Inc. $8,600 $73900 Shining Stars Foundation $7,000 - Smiling Goat Ranch $101000 - The Meeting Place - Roaring Fork Recovery Support Services $12,500 $9,500 West Mountain Regional Health Alliance $301000 - Western Slope Veterans Coalition $107000 - YouthZone - Garfield Youth Services $133000 $103900 TOTAL $571,600 $3061000 427 Rio Grande Place Aspen, CO 81611-1975 � Phone: 970-920-5000 I aspen.gov CITY OF ASPEN 2026 Final Funding Awards I In -Kind *All in®kind grants are awarded for a one-year funding term. Organization Facilit Ask Award AIF — Aspen Indigenous Foundation Wheeler $7,300 $67000 Aspen Choral Society Wheeler $3,000 $27400 Aspen Figure Skating Club Recreation $292800 $277000 Aspen Film m Independent Films Inc. Wheeler $107000 $107000 Aspen Fringe Festival Wheeler $77000 $47700 Aspen Historical Society Parks $47000 $47000 Aspen Junior Hockey Inc. Recreation $497000 $467000 Aspen Mother Puckers Recreation $47768 $47240 Aspen Psychedelic Resource Center Wheeler $97270 $17750 Aspen Words — The Aspen Institute Wheeler $4,666 $47400 AspenOUT — Roaring Fork Gay and Lesbian Fund Recreation $157000 $157000 Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc. F.K.A. Sopris Theatre Company Wheeler $47500 $27800 Dance Aspen Wheeler $47500 0 Gentlemen of Aspen Rugby Football Club Parks $3,883 $3,883 Inspire Aspen Foundation Wheeler $6,900 $5,500 Jazz at Aspen Snowmass Wheeler $4,750 $41750 Revolutions Skating Club, Inc. Recreation $147000 $77500 Roaring Fork Valley Storytellers Wheeler $27500 $27500 Silver City Gymnastics Recreation $17000 $17000 The Aspen Swim Club Recreation $25,000 $20,000 TOTAL — $210;837 $1739423 427 Rio Grande Place Aspen, CO 81611-1975 I Phone: 970-920-5000 I aspen.gov Criterion Exceptional - 5 Great - 4 Good - 3 Average - 2 Poor - 1 Inadequate - 0 Community Impact Application demonstrates strong potential to have exceptional positive community impact Application demonstrates strong potential to have significant positive community impact. Application demonstrates moderate potential to have a meaningful positive community impact. Application demonstrates some potential to have some meaningful positive community impact. Application demonstrates little potential to have little meaningful positive impact. Application does not demonstrate potential for meaningful positive community impact. Alignment Application has exceptional alignment to grants program philosophy and relevant strategic focus areas. Application has strong alignment to grants program philosophy and relevant strategic focus areas. Application has moderate alignment to grants program philosophy and relevant strategic focus areas. Application has some alignment to grants program philosophy and relevant strategic focus areas. Application has little alignment to grants program philosophy and relevant strategic focus areas. Application does not align with the grants program philosophy and relevant strategic focus areas. Feasibility Application is nearly cer tain to be viable and sustainable. Demonstrates appropriate organizational capacity to implement grant. Application is likely to be viable and sustainable. Demonstrates appropriate organizational capacity to implement grant. Application has a moderate chance of being viable and sustainable. Demonstrates appropriate organizational capacity to implement grant. Application has some chance of being viable and sustainable. Does not demonstrate appropriate organizational capacity to implement grant. Application has little chance of being viable and sustainable. Does not demonstrate organizational capacity to implement grant. Application has no chance of being viable and sustainable. Does not demonstrate organizational capacity to implement grant. Innovation Application is creative and is nearly cer tain to significantly address community issues or needs. Application is creative and will likely significantly address community issues or needs. Application shows some creative and attempts to address community issues or needs. Application shows weak creativity and does little to address community issues or needs. Application shows little creativity and does not attempt to address community issues or needs. Application shows no creativity and does not attempt to address community issues or needs. REVIEW & SCORING FRAMEWORK | EVALUATION RUBRIC 30% 20% 20% 10% Criterion Exceptional - 5 Great - 4 Good - 3 Average - 2 Poor - 1 Inadequate - 0 Impact & Outcomes The funded work demonstrated exceptional, measurable, positive impact on the community, with outcomes that clearly exceeded expectations in scope, depth, or significance. The funded work demonstrated significant positive impact, with clear and meaningful outcomes that met or slightly exceeded intended goals. The funded work demonstrated a meaningful positive community impact, with outcomes that generally aligned with stated goals. The funded work demonstrated some positive community impact, though outcomes were limited in scale, depth, or clarity. The funded work demonstrated little meaningful positive community impact, with minimal or weak outcomes. The funded work did not demonstrate meaningful positive community impact, or outcomes were unclear, unsupported, or not achieved. REVIEW & SCORING FRAMEWORK | EVALUATION RUBRIC 20%