Our Work
We have completed a major beautification project in Roberts, adding a few hundred trees to our community, and we continue to maintain the flowers and shrubs in the gateway monuments and throughout the business area.
The Roberts Community Foundation is the fiscal sponsor for the Roberts Activities Committee, a group of get-er-done folks who support great projects in town.
RCF purchased electrical supplies to add Christmas decorations on more light poles in the town and has purchased additional decorations and lights. We are compiling a "wish list" of major, medium and smaller projects to complete in the next five years with the community's input.
We’re pleased to host all-board meetings (aka Town Hall Meetings) where government districts in Roberts (school, water/sewer, fire district, cemetery, county commission) can share upcoming projects and future needs.
We participate in the annual Red Lodge Area Community Foundation’s Fun Run, which raises RCF a few thousand dollars per year. We appreciate being a part of the larger charitable community in Carbon County. The RCF holds an annual golf scramble, which brings together Roberts alumni and residents and friends to raise funds and celebrate friendship.
RCF has purchased a kiosk, placed at the Roberts School, which will include Roberts history as well as entries from school groups and classes. We purchased and maintain a marquee, located on school grounds along the highway, that advertises school and community events.
We partnered with the school, the Carbon County Resource Council and Beartooth Electric to add solar panels on the bus barn, and will seek grant funds to develop additional solar power for our school.
Volunteers have digitized and enhanced graduate photos, rehabbed the picture frames and re-hung the class photos in the school's main halfway.
We have provided funds to the school to purchase healthy snacks for students to tide them over until lunch or supper
And, we bought a basketball shooting machine for use by students and athletes.
The RCF has provided scholarships and financial assistance to students who participate in extra-curricular activities. We sponsored CPR classes to certify residents and child care providers in life-saving skills. Through a generous donation, the RCF installed Little Free Libraries at either end of First Street.
We have awarded post-secondary scholarships to Roberts students for the past 25 years. RCF enjoys awarding these scholarships to celebrate our students.
We are blessed with a large endowment fund managed by the Montana Community Foundation that provides good-sized interest payments yearly. The principle of our endowment funds cannot be touched, but serves as income through interest payments in perpetuity for the community of Roberts. We also encourage individuals to review their estate planning to continue their family’s legacy in our community, and to make contributions ito the Foundation in memory of friends and family.
We rely on generous donors to fund the bulk of our community and school investments.
The Roberts Community Foundation established the Roberts Activities Committee to promote the Festival on First and the Veterans’ Honor Memorial. Dozens of community volunteers erect crosses, flags and dog tags along Highway 212 twice yearly, surrounding Memorial Day and Veterans’ Day. RAC sponsors a community clean-up day in conjunction with the school every spring. And, RAC sponsored the very successful 2023 All School Reunion, which brought school alumni and former staff and students to town for a celebration of our beloved Roberts Schools. The event netted $8,000 for the Roberts Schools!
The Roberts Activities Committee hosts monthly gatherings called the “Rusty Rockets” on the third Tuesdays from 1-4pm for seniors at the Roberts Fire Hall. Those gatherings could include card playing, public health check-ups, chair yoga, decorating for Christmas, sending cards to neighbors in need of some cheer, pot-lucks, history presentations and the popular Christmas bagna cauda party. And snacks!