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.
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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:
  • $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:
  • 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.
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We provided Ridgway Elementary School the following teacher grants in 2021 from funds provided by Fortuna Tierra Club in the past:
  • 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
  • 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