Annual Report 2022

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps engages young people in the outdoors, inspiring them to use their strengths and potential to lead healthy, productive lives. We teach responsibility for self, community and environment through teamwork, service and experiential education.

Vision

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps will be the leader in NW Colorado to provide diverse opportunities for young people to participate in outdoor based service and education for their growth, respect and responsibility to self, community and environment. We will do this through strong sustainable collaborations with projects, programs, and funding partners.

Dear Friends of Rocky Mountain Youth Corps,

We finally feel like things are getting back to normal after an interesting couple of years dealing with Covid and the many impacts it had on so many young people. Our programs continue to grow in both capacity and scope of services. Our year-round staff structure continues to expand to maintain and increase our high quality of service to our participants and land management agencies. We are now a 15-person crew of senior staff members!

Our board and staff are making great progress on our four strategic plan focus areas:

• Vision, Mission, Goals, Core Values

• Succession Planning

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity

• Financial Sustainability

We have implemented many strategies to engage a broader spectrum of participants by providing our materials in both English and Spanish; focusing recruitment on females, veterans, and opportunity youth & young adults; providing gear and fee scholarships to all in need; and expanding our mental health support services.

Our Natural Resource Internship program is rapidly establishing as one of our largest as we provide conservation career opportunities to more young adults in collaboration with our land management partners.

We are growing our endowment! We are making progress on our goal to attain an endowment balance of $3.5M as we have received generous donations/pledges of over $1.5M over the past 2 years.

Our ability to empower young people to lead healthy and productive lives continues to be our primary focus with service and community engagement as the medium through which this is achieved.

Thank you for your support, and please enjoy this Annual Report highlighting the youth, projects, and accomplishments of 2022, RMYC’s 30th program season!

Gretchen Van De Carr

Paige Baker Chief Executive Officer Board President