When Pens and Pencils Aren’t Enough: Taos Community Stuffs Backpacks With Supplies for Students in Need | LOR Foundation
Complete Education

When Pens and Pencils Aren’t Enough: Taos Community Stuffs Backpacks With Supplies for Students in Need

Taos
  • Local Champion: St. James Episcopal Church
  • Date Funded: July 28, 2022
  • Grant Amount: $4,000

Back-to-school time can be especially stressful for the many Taos students whose families can’t afford the school supplies the school district requires. Understanding this problem, members of several local community groups that work with low-income families (e.g., Taos Immigrant Allies, Taos Behavior Health, St. James Episcopal Church, and Twirl) came up with a solution: Work directly with the school district to identify families who need a little help with supplies, then purchase and distribute them to the families. LOR’s funding will be used to meet the back-to-school supply needs for more than 300 K-12 students.

Impact

462 students were provided backpacks and supplies. This was up from 300 the previous year. Additionally, a new collaboration was born: SHINE, an interagency collaboration to assist youth in community.

In The News

Over 1,400 Backpacks Donated to Taos Students (Taos News, September 2022)

 

Contact our community officer in Taos. Meet Sonya Struck
More Education Solutions
Education / Monte Vista Sleeping Bags Support Participation of Monte Vista Students in Educational Excursions
Local Champion:
Monte Vista School District NO. C-8
Grant Amount:
$9,511
Education / Monte Vista Interior Makeover Transforms Multi-Purpose Room at Marsh Elementary School
Local Champion:
Monte Vista School District NO. C-8
Date funded:
November 20, 2024
Grant Amount:
$7,902
Education / Weiser Free Fly-Fishing Classes Help Teach Weiser Locals, Well, How to Fish
Local Champion:
Indianhead Fly Fishers
Date funded:
November 15, 2024
Grant Amount:
$8,500
Education / Cortez A Mobile Cooking Cart Keeps Cortez Food Education Alive Year-Round
Local Champion:
Montezuma School to Farm
Date funded:
November 8, 2024
Grant Amount:
$16,100
Education / Questa After-School Program Offers Safe and Engaging Environment for Questa Kids
Local Champion:
Living Word Ministries
Date funded:
November 6, 2024
Grant Amount:
$1,550
Education / Cortez Emergency Training Prepares Cortez Middle School Students to Save Lives
Local Champion:
Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1
Date funded:
October 31, 2024
Grant Amount:
$2,470
See All solutions

Share a Solution

If you have an idea for improving quality of life in Cortez or Monte Vista, Colorado; Lander, Wyoming; Libby, Montana; Questa or Taos, New Mexico; or Weiser, Idaho, use this form to start a conversation with us.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.