Our 2025 Watershed Giving Circle Award recipients:

These organizations are all examples of critical and creative local solutions to climate change.

• UpRoot Colorado: awarded $8,000 for their Gleaning Initatives which reduces food waste and feeds people in the Roaring Fork Valley and Western Slope.

• CLEER: Two Rivers Connect: awarded $5000 for their Two Rivers Connect Campaign which incentives alternative transportation and keep cars off the road!

• RFOV: awarded $5000 for their Youth in Nature Internship which provides a 9 month stewardship program for high school students.

• The Wilderness Workshop: awarded $1000 for their Public Lands Protection Fund to address increased threats of oil & gas drilling on public lands.

• Eco-Flight: awarded $1000 for the Young Leaders Initiative dedicated to getting 100-150 young people a birds eye view of local environmental issues.

• CORE: awarded $1000 for their Priority Participant Fund to improve energy efficiency and lower heating bills.

• Roaring Fork Safe Passages: awarded $1000 for overhead to improve the 82 Trap.