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 …
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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: 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 …
Community Counts: Subs for Santa
Many living in our community would be quick to say that Subs for Santa bringsour valley together as one to help one another in our times of need. That has especially been the case this past year! Back in 1989, Subs for Santa was born because of a need to help a family in our community. A group of volunteers put together a Christmas for this family. The single mother of three wanted to give back …
Community Counts: Teton Valley Museum
A legacy to proudly exhibit: Teton Valley has abundant qualities to admire. It has super skiing, stunning mountains, beautiful meadows and streams. Its world class recreation and the support industries are booming. Cattle graze and crops flourish. Visitors to the Teton Valley Museum learn that the same things that draw people to Teton Valley now are what drew people here in the …
Community Counts: Teton Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Local veterinarians are not able to take in wildlife patients. Local DVM, Summer Lee Winger, sees the dilemma first-hand, that the regular veterinary clinic is not the channel for wildlife rehabilitation. “It is difficult in most cases to work on wildlife in a normal clinic setting. The goal of wildlife treatment is to treat, rehab, and release with as little human interference as …
Community Counts: St. Francis of the Tetons Episcopal Church
Since its beginnings in Teton Valley in 1993, St. Francis of the Tetons made community service a cornerstone of its ministry. Our mission statement puts it well: as followers of Jesus, we strive to “walk humbly, patiently and kindly with our neighbors.” Since its inception the church reached out through various networks to offer assistance to community members in …
Community Counts: Teton County Idaho Search and Rescue
Teton County Idaho Search and Rescue is a group of 28 volunteers who donated 3,226 hours in 2020 in training and rescues. The group is entirely made up of volunteers dedicated to providing the public prompt, professional emergency services for people who are lost, injured, stranded, or in need of rescue primarily within Teton County Idaho. Our team is enhanced by 4 …
Support the Community Foundation directly thru the Tin Cup Challenge!
The Community Foundation of Teton Valley is a nonprofit that works year-round to support local organizations and our community. Our Competitive Grant program is just one of the avenues the Foundation uses to ensure necessary support of critical needs within our community. Competitive Grants are funded through the generosity of Business and Community Challengers …