2021 Grant Recipients Archives - Eastern Colorado Bank

The proposed project is to design, create, and implement a community facing, student led CTE Store in Kit Carson. In addition to strengthening partnerships, the Innovative Store will address three of Colorado CTE’s goals: career advising & development, quality CTE programs, and work based learning. This project will erase equity gaps in CTE, for special populations, by offering those students real world opportunities to participate in and promote autonomy. The CTE Store will be stocked with products that KCSD students develop and manufacture to sell to community members and travelers. Kit Carson students will be responsible for managing the entirety of the operation with assistance from Kit Carson school district staff and community partners. Richard Gekeler, AG Instructor and CTE Coordinator will provide oversight along with the collaboration of other instructors, CTE Advisory Board, Kit Carson Chamber of Commerce, Town of Kit Carson and the CRD. In addition, several community members have offered to volunteer their time to mentor students in entrepreneurship principles and skills training. Community partners will offer their expertise to help students learn new trades such as fabrication or design. This will provide an excellent opportunity for the work-based learning needed as part of CTE and graduation requirements, as well as strengthen ties between the school, community, and stakeholders. Students will learn human capital management, supply-chain management, manufacturing, marketing, sales, accounting, and customer service. The opportunity offers work-force readiness skills to students and/or provides the entrepreneurial skills for a student to open their own business. A hope for the program leadership is that students will create new sustainable businesses in Kit Carson, leveraging the CTE store as a business incubator.

ECB donated $5,000 to help pave the parking lot and replace the sewer line for the Burlington Senior Center.

ECB has donated $1,000 to Partners in Housing to help provide transitional housing an supportive services to help homeless families with children locate employment improve their education, income and personal well-being.

Eastern Colorado Bank has donated $2,000 to the Burlington Community Ballfield Project with our 2021 Giving Back - Looking Forward Grant. The Burlington Community Ballfield Project is building a sun shelter over the bleachers and dugouts of the middle school fields.

ECB donated $2,000 to Prairie Family Center to help provide and deliver food boxes to senior citizens in Kit Carson County Colorado.

ECB donated $500 to the CASA of the Pikes Peak Region to help in funding to recruit, train and manage volunteers to serve the influx of abused and neglected children entering the child welfare program.

ECB donated $2,500 to the Catholic Charities of Central Colorado to help provide emergency support for families and parents with children who are engaged with Life Coaching a.k.a. family-strengthening case management.

ECB has donated $2,500 to Springs Rescue Mission to help provide hunger relief and addiction recovery services.

ECB donated $5,000 to the Cheyenne County School District to help purchase the new LED lights for the Tigers football field.

ECB has donated $2,500 to THE Place to help provide services for runaway and homeless street youth in El Paso County.

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