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Utah Ranks Highest In Child Care Deserts

Utah Ranks Highest In Child Care Deserts

Utah Ranks Highest in Childcare Deserts According to an analysis by the Center for American Progress: Utah has the highest proportion of residents living in a child care desert at…

Task Forces Forming Now To Implement Strategic Plan

Task Forces Forming Now To Implement Strategic Plan

Be Part of a Task Force (or several!) In order to accomplish the goals set forth in the Draft Strategic Plan, we are setting up task forces. Come join other…

Early Childhood Alliance Meeting, December 4, 2019

Early Childhood Alliance Meeting, December 4, 2019

Members met on December 4, 2019, at the Park City Community Foundation. Ollie Wilder introduced Kristen Schulz as the new Coordinator and the group decided to break into several task…

2019 Annual Update

2019 Annual Update

Please enjoy our 2019 Annual Update.  

Youth Sports Alliance – Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2019

Youth Sports Alliance – Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2019

Youth Sports Alliance provides 30,000 hours of programming promoting physical activities and healthy lifestyles for Summit County youth through their after school Get Out & Play and ACTiV8 programs. The…

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2019 – PC Tots

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2019 – PC Tots

PC Tots will create a short-term emergency tuition subsidy fund for women facing financial crises making it so they cannot pay their children’s childcare tuition. In four years, PC Tots…

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2019 – People’s Health Clinic

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2019 – People’s Health Clinic

Award: $35,000 to expand women’s and children’s healthcare services. In the 6 months following the grant (July to December 2019), PHC had over 3,100 female visits and over 500 child…

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2018 – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2018 – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah

Award: $33,000 toward increasing staff capacity in Summit County for the purposes of matching at-risk youth with Big Brother and Sister mentors. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah (Summit &…

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2018 – Holy Cross Ministries

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2018 – Holy Cross Ministries

As a Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist for 2018, Holy Cross Ministries proposes to research, develop, and implement an evidence-based prenatal curriculum to benefit 200 women and infants in Summit…

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2018 – Arts-Kids

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2018 – Arts-Kids

As a Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist for 2018, Arts-Kids’ goal is to reach over 3,000 Summit County children several times over the next two years with one- and two-hour…

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2017 – Youth Sports Alliance

Women’s Giving Fund Grant Finalist 2017 – Youth Sports Alliance

Youth Sports Alliance will provide healthy, productive sports and activities to kids by expanding the ACTiV8 program at Ecker Hill Middle School and introducing it to Treasure Mountain Junior High,…

Peace House – WGF Grant Finalist 2017

Peace House – WGF Grant Finalist 2017

Award: $30,000 toward construction of 12 transitional housing suites within Peace House’s recently built facility on Round Valley Drive. In Utah, 1 in 3 women will face domestic violence in…