P-2046

Butte Photo Contest

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Project Description

Country: USA

Location: Butte, MT

Total Budget: $7,300

Area of Focus: Economic and community development

Activity Type: Community Development: General

Summary: The Rotary Club of Butte will co-sponsor and co-facilitate a community beautification photo contest in Butte-Silver Bow with the goal of neighborhoods beautifying Butte this summer.


The Rotary Club of Butte has been asked to join with a Butte neighborhood group to co-sponsor and co-facilitate a community beautification photo contest in the Butte-Silver Bow (B-SB) area. This competition was started last year by that neighborhood group and will benefit this year by having Rotary help lead and sponsor the effort. The prime objective is to encourage and assist in the restoration, revitalization, and beautification of the neighborhood communities in Butte-Silver Bow.

The competition is named the Alma Higgins Vegetative Environment Enhancement Program (VEEP) in honor of Alma Higgins who, in the 1920s, planted hundreds of trees in the Butte area and spearheaded the growth of garden clubs back then with more than 400 members in 18 neighborhood clubs. The Rotary Club of Butte will be working with the Greeley Neighborhood Community Development Corporation, Inc. This is a 501(c)(3) neighborhood group in the neighborhood located immediately south of the Berkeley Pit. It started the VEEP program last year and reached out to Rotary for help this year.

Butte is located in Silver Bow County and there is a common B-SB city-county government with 12 Council Commissioner Districts covering the city and county. The VEEP competition will make awards in all 12 Districts in these 4 photo divisions:

1. General Landscape

2. Flower Bed

3. Flower Container

4. Vegetable Garden

There will also be two categories for each: Individual (one house, business, church, etc.) and a Neighborhood Cluster (3 or more individual resident properties in the same neighborhood entering as one unit - such as a community garden or a neighborhood commons area).

For the competition, the entrants will mail or hand-deliver a 4" x 6" picture to the Butte-Silver Bow Chamber of Commerce by August 31, 2018. The pictures will be separated by District, by division, and by category and will be judged by master gardeners. The awards will be made by the end of October and there will be a presentation at a Council of Commissioners meeting. The amount of the awards will depend on the amount of funding and the number of entrants in the 12 Districts and the 4 divisions and the 2 categories (a possible total of 96 awards).

The Rotary Club of Butte will help provide funding for the VEEP competition awards and help lead the project. A Rotary member will be one of the two facilitators of the project and 4 Rotarians, so far, have volunteered to be Community Liaisons. The funds are incentives for people to enter the competition and the awards will be made after the judging in the Fall.

The Community Liaisons will advertise and promote the VEEP project to individuals, families, community organizations, schools, religious organizations, businesses, and government groups. The VEEP project is to encourage people to beautify Butte-Silver Bow and send in their pictures of their project and the financial awards are the incentive to do this. The VEEP program will not physically help plant nor provide funds for any plantings, but, last year, the VEEP project held a plant sale and invited master gardeners to hold walk-around teaching programs in the neighborhood. Similar programs may be planned this year through the Community Liaisons.

The Rotary Club of Butte is requesting $2,500 from a District Grant and is planning to match that with $2,500 of Club Funds. The Butte-Silver Bow Commissioners have also given $1,200 from the B-SB Economic Development Levy Fund, and, it is anticipated that the Butte Plant & Garden Vendors will donate $900 of gift certificates as they did last year. Planning and promotion is going on before June 1st in order to get people to think about the upcoming planting season. District Grant funds will not be spent before July 1, 2018 and matching Club funds will not be spent before June 1, 2018. Funds will mostly go to the awards but some will be needed for advertising and promotion as the Community Liaisons work within the community. This is shown in the Budget as the $200 in the "Other" category. All unexpended funds will be added to the awards.

Rotary Club of Butte has done many beautification projects in the Butte area and we feel this VEEP project will be another great example of Rotary's Area of Focus of Economic & Community Development

Project Contact Person

District: 5390

Rotary Club of: Butte

Primary Contact: David Armstrong

Email: darmstrongaz@hotmail.com

Project Status

Dropped
This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped.

Project listed for the 2018-19 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Butte (5390)

28-Mar-18

$2,500

$2,500

$5,000

Butte (5390)

28-Mar-18

$2,300

-

$2,300

Total

$4,800

$2,500

$7,300

DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.

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History Log Entries

28-Mar-18

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

28-Mar-18

by David Armstrong

System Entry: Pledge of $2,300 by David Armstrong of the Rotary Club of Butte, District 5390.

28-Mar-18

by David Armstrong

System Entry: Pledge of $2,300 by David Armstrong of the Rotary Club of Butte, District 5390.

28-Mar-18

by David Armstrong

System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".

28-Mar-18

by David Armstrong

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

28-Mar-18

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Bill Spath.

28-Mar-18

by David Armstrong

System Entry: Project signed by David Armstrong.

16-May-18

by Suzanne M Carstens

System Entry: Project dropped by Suzanne M Carstens.

Reason for dropping: Club president David Armstrong requested this grant request be withdrawn.

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