Last week Park City Mountain hosted the 4th Annual EpicPromise Grants Reception. This event brought together our non-profit partners, key community members, and employees to celebrate the non-profit’s role in making Park City such a special place to live and play.
The theme at this year’s event, hosted at O.P. Rockwell on Main Street, revolved around Park City’s mining history. Decked out with mining lanterns and hard hats, the attendees played an interactive game with questions about mining in Park City. The theme came from the tremendous effort to preserve seven priority former mining structures on Park City Mountain. The effort is a unique, unprecedented example of community partnership between the Resort, the Park City Municipal, the history museum, and the newly formed Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History.
The EpicPromise Grants Reception is a time of giving and celebration where non-profit partners are awarded grants that help fund their initiatives. Company-wide, Vail Resorts is giving $7.6 million this season to non-profits that focus on the basic needs and social issues facing kids and their families in our local communities. Locally, $2 million was awarded to 31 non-profit partners such as the National Ability Center, Mountain Trails Foundation, People’s Health Clinic, EATS Park City, Recycle Utah, and Park City Community Foundation. Non-profits are selected by the local Park City Giving Council, whose service in the community helps us identify the programs that need support.
Last year we introduced the new signature program, EpicPromise Kids, which supports other programs that make a difference, move the needle for future leaders, and inspire others. As a way to highlight the importance of EpicPromise Kids, we award a grant to an EpicPromise Kids winner each year. This winner will be an organization that we believe is making a tangible impact for kids of all demographics in the community and meeting a critical need.
This year’s recipient of the EpicPromise Kids Award is Nell Larson from the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter. Larson’s team has a 4th grade program that will reach 900 students in Summit and Wasatch counties. Larson’s program exposes the students to environment-based education, which significantly increases student performance on tests of their critical thinking skills.
To learn more about EpicPromise Grant Programs, visit our website.
