On Wednesday evening, the Community Foundation of Teton Valley hosted the 14th Annual Tin Cup Challenge Awards Ceremony. This beloved community event brought nonprofit leaders, donors, and volunteers together to celebrate the results of the 2021 Tin Cup Challenge. After recognizing the significant contributions of the Foundation’s Board, staff, and volunteers who support the success …
Foundation News
Creating a Solid Foundation
The Community Foundation works year-round to support local nonprofits from the bottom up. From maintaining an annual, dependable fundraiser for participating nonprofits to continuing education, the Community Foundation of Teton Valley is consistently building a stronger foundation for organizations to root into. Through these efforts, the Community Foundation creates stability while encouraging …
2021 Tin Cup Event Day Highlights
Many thanks to our generous and talented photographers: C.W. Borrenpohl, Trish Boyd, Linda Swope, and Erica Tremblay. We greatly appreciate their efforts to capture this special day. …
Tin Cup Challenge Grant Program
After a hard year for everyone, it's good to feel the warmth and lightness of summer. For nonprofits that spent the pandemic reimagining programming, funding alternatives, and budgets, June 1st marked not only the beginning of a new season but also the beginning of something we can all count on - the Tin Cup Challenge. The Tin Cup Challenge provides a …
Community Counts: Teton Regional Land Trust
We are looking forward to a beautiful Teton Valley summer and are optimistic about starting to see you all in person, especially after this past year. As a community, we got through one of the most challenging times and ultimately, we are emerging out of the pandemic stronger together. You showed up for not only the Teton Regional Land Trust but for all Teton Valley’s important nonprofits. We …
Community Counts: Teton Rock Gym
Teton Rock Gym is more than just a climbing gym. It’s a special place where community members and newcomers can have a home base, a place to meet up, rain or shine, to make new friends, and spend time with family. Teton Rock Gym is a place where people build the kinds of relationships that make a place a home.For the children that come here, it’s a place where they are comfortable being themselves …
Community Counts: HAPI Trails Horse Rescue
Horses have incredible hearing, with the ability to hear the heartbeat of a human from four feet away. In the wild, horses will synchronize their heartbeats to the other horses in the herd in order to sense danger more quickly. Studies have shown that domesticated horses will also use this tactic when interacting with humans, synchronizing to our heartbeats, thus sensing slight adjustments in our …
Community Counts: Aska’s Animals
Throughout the pandemic, people acquired new pets and some people are feeling at a loss for what to do with their now 10-month-old large puppy who is barking constantly. Aska’s Animals will provide a progressive environment to provide people and pets of Teton Valley with the tools needed to be happy in their homes. Whether this is through behavior consultations, adoption, …
Community Counts: Friends of the Valley of the Tetons Library
The Friends of the Valley of the Tetons Library is a nonprofit entity formed to support and enrich the resources and facilities of the library to benefit our community. Our goal is to provide funding for equipment, renovations, activities, and various projects above and beyond the library budget provided by county tax dollars. We are a volunteer group of citizens whose shared …
Community Counts: Family Safety Network
Around Teton Valley, you will encounter stickers inside of restaurants, grocery stores, bathrooms, doctor’s offices, and even at playgrounds, with the words “Are You Safe?”. These stickers serve as an ever-present reminder that there are individuals in our valley who are in fact not safe and experience fear as part of their daily lives.Family Safety Network (FSN) advocates for healthy …
