communities
Cortez
Solutions and stories from the heart of the Four Corners region.
- Local Champion:
- Needful Provisions Inc. and Southwest Open School
- Date funded:
- March 24, 2022
- Grant Amount:
- $13,608
- Local Champion:
- Cortez Water Dragons
- Date funded:
- March 23, 2022
- Grant Amount:
- $29,995
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The new community garden's 11 plots, supported with funding from LOR, will be ready for planting this spring.
- Local Champion:
- Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce
- Date funded:
- January 14, 2022
- Grant Amount:
- $23,084
- Local Champion:
- Montezuma County
- Date funded:
- December 29, 2021
- Grant Amount:
- $17,157
- Local Champion:
- High Desert DEVO
- Date funded:
- December 17, 2021
- Grant Amount:
- $2,140
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All that Cortez's Southwest Open School needed to launch its new bike mechanic program was a shop. That's where LOR came in.
- Local Champion:
- Onward! A Legacy Foundation
- Date funded:
- October 30, 2021
- Grant Amount:
- $22,404
- Local Champion:
- The Daily Zu
- Date funded:
- October 15, 2021
- Grant Amount:
- $8,298
- Local Champion:
- a cortez resident
- Date funded:
- September 30, 2021
- Grant Amount:
- $13,410
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