Community Emergency Response Fund

Sections

Help­ing the Hole Community

As a com­mu­ni­ty foun­da­tion, we are unique­ly posi­tioned to sup­port the ongo­ing needs of our com­mu­ni­ty and take on unex­pect­ed chal­lenges, from the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic to local dis­as­ters, through grants to our non­prof­it partners.

Sup­port­ing Local Work­ers and Organizations

The Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion took proac­tive steps to mit­i­gate the adverse impacts of the June 2024 land­slide on Teton Pass:

  • Through our Hous­ing Solu­tions Ini­tia­tive, we con­nect­ed 27 Teton Pass com­muters with tem­po­rary hous­ing in Teton Coun­ty, Wyoming while the Pass was being repaired. Sin­cere thanks to the Jack­son Hole com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers who wel­comed our Teton Val­ley neigh­bors into their homes dur­ing this time of need.
  • Mid-June through mid-July, the Foun­da­tion award­ed over $234,000 in Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response grants to local orga­ni­za­tions whose oper­a­tions or ser­vices were sig­nif­i­cant­ly impaired by the Teton Pass clo­sure. Includ­ed in this amount was major fund­ing for One22 Resource Cen­ter’s Tem­po­rary Emer­gency Relief for Com­muters pro­gram, which to date has served hun­dreds of Pass commuters. 

About

Response Fund Estab­lished in 2020

As a pre­pared­ness mea­sure on March 13, 2020, the Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion com­mit­ted an ini­tial $150,000 to this Fund, which was matched by gen­er­ous donors, bring­ing the total to more than $300,000. Han­sjörg Wyss, a phil­an­thropist and Teton Coun­ty res­i­dent, com­mit­ted a lead gift of $750,000 to the Response Fund, help­ing to seed the efforts put for­ward by the Com­mu­ni­ty Foundation.

By Jan­u­ary 2021, the Response Fund reached a land­mark $5 mil­lion dol­lars thanks to the phil­an­thropic gen­eros­i­ty of our com­mu­ni­ty. More than $3 mil­lion dol­lars was deployed as grants to more than 50 non­prof­its pro­vid­ing vital, front line ser­vices in response to the pan­dem­ic in Teton County.