2020 WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ii Contents Dear Friends, When you look back on 2020, I bet you’ll agree it was a tough year. It’s easy to recount all the bad that WYCF Grantmaking 2020 ...........................................................1 happened. With your support though, so much good Your Generosity at Work came from it. Because of you, our state and nonprofit Bridging the Gap One Basket at a Time .............................2 community remain strong. Campbell County Opportunities Fund You are the reason Wyoming communities continue Wyoming Shoots for the Stars ...............................................4 to thrive in good times and in bad. When the nonprofit Wyoming Afterschool Alliance community that you and I rely on felt like it was Local Boards and Advisory Committee Grants .................6 crumbling, you helped build it back up. A Standard for Success .............................................................8 Because of your support in 2020, WYCF was able Wyoming Women’s Foundation to shift focus and meet the changing needs your Learning About the Outdoors, Outside Their Doors......10 community faced. The causes you care about were Looking Back, Looking Forward ...........................................12 shown a little extra love when they needed it most. Wyoming KIDS Count Data Book Your generosity helped children and families receive Impacts of COVID-19 on Wyoming Families ......................14 weekend meals over the summer. Your support meant moms working for their degree were able to access Legacy, Key Club, & President’s Circle Members ..........17 childcare and find help with housing to make college A Legacy for Leaders ................................................................18 more affordable. Donations from you have provided Leadership Wyoming Legacy Endowment Fund a path for Wyoming kids to become innovators and Honors and Memorials ............................................................20 tackle all that’s ahead. Donors & New Funds ................................................................22 After reading about all the good of 2020, I hope you Financials ......................................................................................24 know that you helped Wyoming communities and nonprofits thrive. In the good and bad times, the care Volunteers Boards .....................................................................25 you have shown Wyoming will make a difference for Current Staff ..............................................................Back cover years to come. I have no doubt, people like you will continue to build a better Wyoming no matter what comes our way. Thank you! Craig Showalter, President Wyoming Community Foundation iii 2020 ANNUAL REPORT WYCF GRANTMAKING: Your Generosity at Work Grants by Fund Type Agency Fund Grants $2,195,720 Field of Interest Funds $2,140,331 Donor Advised Fund Grants $1,179,507 Donor Designated Fund Grants $74,352 Scholarship Grants $338,549 Special Projects Grants $507,552 Unrestricted Grants $267,925 Total grantmaking: $6,703,936 Donor Advised Fund Agency Grants by Region: $2,005,808 Grants by Region: $1,020,083 Northeast Northeast Northwest $706,220 Northwest $114,715 $629,669 $69,150 Central Central $151,396 $351,627 Southwest Southeast Southwest Southeast $221,161 $119,701 $74,512 $123,775 Statewide agency grants made: $177,661 Statewide grants made: $286,305 International, Mutual/ Human Public, Societal Arts, Culture Environment Education Health Faith-Based Foreign Membership Services Benefit & Humanities & Animals Affairs Benefit All Grants by Program Area: $1,908,710 $1,285,052 $1,189,794 $841,187 $492,509 $206,779 $79,906 – $6,703,937 Agency Grants by Program Area $326,563 $600,839 $416,859 $484,861 $15,620 $86,115 $82,436 – Donor-Advised Grants by Program Area $399,154 $317,587 $100,790 $74,827 $107,140 $73,500 $104,260 $150 $2,100 WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 1 Bridging the Gap One Basket at a Time CAMPBELL COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES FUND Edible Prairie Project That’s why the Edible Prairie Project was created. andemic, drought, and hail all came fast and EPP is a nonprofit that bridges the gap between local furious to market farmers in some Wyoming communities in 2020, not to mention challenging food sources and those in need of food. They give supply chain issues. But WYCF grantee Edible Prairie people access to local, quality food, and help members Project (EPP) weathered each storm and solved these of their community who are hungry. They do this problems in one of their toughest years yet. through two main programs: Veggie Baskets and Summer Weekend Meals for Kids. The reason EPP worked so hard to overcome these difficulties: they are passionate about helping their “People get really excited about what’s going to be community. in their Veggie Baskets,” says Erin. “We like to see the creative recipes people come up with using their “Megan and I have worked in local food for a long produce, and [the baskets] support local growers.” time,” said Erin Galloway, executive director of Edible Prairie Project, of co-worker and co-director Megan Veggie Baskets provide local produce to customers each Taylor. “There was nothing bridging the gap between week, using a pay-what-you-can pricing model. All local food and food insecurity. We [Campbell County] EPP customers receive the same quantity and quality of also didn’t have a weekend food program for kids and produce regardless of the price paid. At least 40% of the families in the summertime,” she said. baskets are reserved for SNAP/WIC families. 2 2020 ANNUAL REPORT STATS FACTS EPP’s original goal was to 11 serve 100 children. Because EPP’s network of the increased COVIDdemand stemming from , of growers who 370 contribute to their over different Veggie Basket children throughout the program. course of the program2,210 received a total of weekend food bags. The Edible Prairie Project seeks to support independent family-scale farmers, ranchers, and agricultural producers in Campbell County who self-identify as female, military veteran, new and beginning, Erin Galloway and Megan Taylor of Edible Prairie Project. Black/African American, Person of Color, and/or socially disadvantaged. “The Veggie Baskets I received each week were “We got to see the kids’ faces and talk with parents. always filled with fresh and wholesome local Week after week we were told ‘thank you,’” Erin produce,” says Mary, a Veggie Basket customer. “The says. “Parents told us at the end of the summer how variety was amazing, which introduced me (and my much it meant, and that keeps us doing the work we kids) to new veggies and some direction on how they are doing.” can be used in meals.” EPP now has volunteers and continues to engage The Veggie Basket program was EPP’s flagship with their Campbell County community to help feed program, but Erin and Megan knew there was more hungry families. Even after all 2020 threw their way, that needed to be done to help families in need. They EPP is still working as hard as ever, and is ready for partnered with stores and organizations in Campbell what’s next. County to set up Summer Weekend Meals for Kids. “Awareness of food insecurity is a big issue,” says Then the world stopped with COVID-19. Erin. “People are not aware it’s in their communities, EPP didn’t stop though. They were still there for and it’s easy to ignore,” she says. kids and families when they needed it most. Erin and Because of you, a grant from WYCF made EPP’s work Megan handled about 90% of the summer program possible. It helped local food sources thrive while alone, serving more kids than originally planned. giving people the food security they need and deserve. WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 3 Wyoming Shoots for the Stars hen you’re stargazing in Wyoming, Seven participants from across the state regularly meet it’s easy to picture new worlds full of over Zoom. Each has the goal of learning to inspire possibility. Watching satellites and students to develop a STEM mindset through making. stars cross dark Wyoming skies stirs the Participants are youth educators from 4-H programs, imagination. Our Wyoming sky is famous afterschool programs, art galleries, community centers for its inspirational views, day or night. and makerspaces. The Wyoming Afterschool Alliance (WYAA) is using In our state, where sparkling night skies spread over that spirit of imagination to inspire young women and girls in Wyoming. mountains and plains, the Moonshot is a particularly wonderful analogy. WThrough the Million Girl Moonshot (MGMS) program, part of the larger MakeHER program, WYAA and “Around age 11, girls are most at risk for opting out its partners are capturing the attention of middle of STEM education experiences,” says Jane Crayton, school youth - and girls in particular - through youth Coe Makerspace Coordinator at the University of development opportunities and STEM education. Wyoming. “It’s really important to start building It’s a collaboration with the University of Wyoming confidence in STEM prior to that age, and definitely at Coe Student Innovation Center (CSIS) makerspace and that age. MakeHER is an intervention, but it will also Wyoming 4-H, and is administered by WYAA. provide students real-world experience.” 4 2020 ANNUAL REPORT STATS FACTS 84% Each host program receives an $800 grant of parents agree that MakeHER programs along with a small provide kids opportunities travel stipend to pay to learn life skills, like for materials, supplies the ability to communicate and work in teams.