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.

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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.