2023 Teacher Grants
We thank the Ouray County Community Fund along with Citizens State Bank for its $500 grant to support Fortuna Tierra Club's grants to teachers for 2023. Linda Mogetz, Vice-President of Fortuna Tierra Club, is pictured receiving the $500 check from Ouray Community Fund on November 15, 2022. The funds will be distributed to the Ridgway Elementary School and Middle School in October/November 2023; based on requests from teachers. In FTC's 2023 budget, there is $1,000 for teacher grants for Ridgway Elementary School teachers and is $1,000 for for teacher grants for Ridgway Middle School teachers.
2022 Teacher Grants
We thank the Ouray County Community Fund along with Citizens State Bank for its $500 grant to support Fortuna Tierra Club's grants to teachers for 2022.
Fortuna Tierra Club provided Ridgway Elementary School the following teacher grant in 2022 for $1,000 newly purchased literacy program Collaborative Classroom.
Fortuna Tierra Club provided Ridgway Middle School the following teacher grants in 2022 for $1,000:
Fortuna Tierra Club provided Ridgway Elementary School the following teacher grant in 2022 for $1,000 newly purchased literacy program Collaborative Classroom.
Fortuna Tierra Club provided Ridgway Middle School the following teacher grants in 2022 for $1,000:
- $500 towards an Art Display System (see pictures below).
- $500 towards materials for Stand Up desks.
2021 Teacher Grants
We thank the Ouray County Community Fund along with Citizens State Bank for its $500 grant to support Fortuna Tierra Club's grants to teachers for 2021.
Fortuna Tierra Club provided Ridgway Elementary School the following teacher grants in 2021 for $1,000:
Fortuna Tierra Club provided Ridgway Middle School the following teacher grants in 2021 for $1,000:
Fortuna Tierra Club provided Ridgway Elementary School the following teacher grants in 2021 for $1,000:
- New soccer goals for the RES playground soccer pitch.
- Zipper masks for students to use in music class during their Flutophone/Recorder units.
- Math Intervention student manipulatives.
- Books for Special Education classroom.
- Additional wobble stools for the art room.
Fortuna Tierra Club provided Ridgway Middle School the following teacher grants in 2021 for $1,000:
- New kitchen equipment for new culinary class.
- Physical Education classes purchased ping pong paddles, nets and paddles and wood to build ping pong tables which will be built by the woodshop classes.
- The math teacher to attend the National Council of Mathematics Teachers annual conference (online).
- Two incubators for the first grade classrooms.
- Two pairs of noise cancelling headphones for the special education department.
- Kindergarten Activity Box on the continents to be put together by the kindergarten teacher.
- Different types and sizes of balls plus cones for PE classes.
- Art Supplies for the K-5 art program.
- Byrdseed online subscription for Gifted and Talented students.
2020 Teacher Grants
In 2020, we had in the budget $500 for middle school teacher grants which were provided for the counselor: two games and a print; the Spanish teacher: games and activities; the math teacher: calculators; and outdoor education supplies.
2019 Teacher Grants
We thank the Ouray County Community Fund for its $500 grant to support Fortuna Tierra Club's grants to teachers for 2019. Fortuna Tierra Club provided a total of $1,200 (which includes the $500) for Ridgway Elementary School teachers for PE equipment, privacy barriers for kids, large foam blocks for outside play for preschoolers, watercolor sets, pedometers, and a cart for PE to haul around equipment.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative, a 2019 Log Hill Hustle sponsor, provided $500 for middle school grants for outdoor cooking gear for the Week Without Walls.
2018 Teacher Grants
The Fortuna Tierra Club provided $1,300 for the following teacher grants in 2018:
Class For what Amount
Class For what Amount
- Gifted and Talented Program Books $210
- Music Equipment $350
- Physical Education Equipment $185
- Kindergarten Continent Boxes Supplies $175
- First Grade Incubator $100
- Pre-school Handwriting Program Supplement $280