2025 Projects
Mother’s Day - Sister’s staff provided seed packets and garden starters to mothers and kids at the Nederland Farmers Market.
Crossroad Shelter Garden - Crossroads Shelter provides 30 women housing for up to ten weeks. Accommodations are available for their children as well. Sisters for Sustainability designed and planted a herb and vegetable garden adjacent to the communal kitchen. The vegetables will provide families with healthy food and provide a secure area for families to enjoy the outdoors. Additionally flowers were planted to act as pollinators and add beauty to the facility.
Crossroad Produce - Sister’s staff provided vegetables grown at residential gardens to supplement produce grown on site.
Plant It Forward- Staff donated produce as part of Plant It Forward Initiative to collect and distribute produce to the Larimer Food Bank.
Victory Gardens - Staff assisted in constructing a greenhouse at Victory Gardens, a non- profit dedicated to high elevation growing and education to promote local food resiliency.
Memorial Day - Sister’s staff provided seed packets and garden starters to mothers and kids at the Nederland Farmers Market.
S2S can custom design online training, conduct in-house seminars; provide presentations; assist on Council packet development, prepare strategic plans, annual reports and GHG baseline inventories and review resiliency risks.
The following projects need capital and volunteers. Signs and recognition will be given to donors on the website and at the sites.
Greenhouse Construction: Sister’s Executive Committee is interested in constructing a greenhouse to provide seedlings for reforestation in wildfire blighted areas form Cameron Wildfire and Red Feather Lakes Fire and vegetable, flower, and herbs for sale to benefit families at Crossroad Shelter.
Construction Costs: $10,000.
Labor – 300 hours @ $17/hr. = $5,100.
Total Costs: $15,100
Read and Seed: This project will create a summer reading program to promote reading, seed gathering and distribution and gardening for residents and visitors at Red Feather Lakes Community Library. The seeds collected and distributed will be native fire-resistant plants to reduce wildfire damages.
Supplies: $2000
Labor: 12 weeks/2hrs week @ $15/hr. = $360
Total Costs: $2360.
Prison Book Program: This project will establish a collection and distribution of books to provide prisoners with reading material in hopes of reducing recidivism. Most states except for Colorado have prison library programs.
Mailing Costs: $200 @ 12 months = $2,400
Advertising and Collection: $120 @ 12 = $1440
Labor: 52 weeks/2hrs week @ $15/hr. = $1,560
Total Costs: $5,400
Solar Powered Well: Red Feather Lakes does not have municipal water services. Residents and business depend on well water which lacks the pressure for firefighting. Furthermore, during recent wildfires Xcel terminated electrical power to the area leaving the population without access to water and power. This well would be available to residents and firefighters to respond to emergencies.
Labor: $40,000
Permits: $500
Construction Costs: $16,000
Annual Maintenance: $200
Total Costs: $ 56,700
Fire Mitigation and Emergency Response: Red Feather Lakes is a low-income community with numerous campgrounds and hiking trails. During the summer months especially, the areas is inundated with campers and fishermen. The funding would cover the cost of interns that would work with community members and forest service staff to remove fallen, diseased and dead trees and replant tree seedlings in blighted areas.
Supplies (Gloves, Chainsaws, boots, hardhats, hand saws; water, first aid kits) = $5,000
Labor: 16 weeks/2hrs week @ $15/hr. x 8 interns =$3840
Administrative Costs: 16 weeks/2hrs week @$66 = $2112.
Total Costs: $9,992
Job Creation: Sisters4Sustainability aims to provide eight-week paid internships to low-income woman and children to help them transition from temporary housing (i.e., Crossroads Shelter) to permanent housing. A secondary internship opportunity will be available at Victory Gardens in Nederland.
Training: 1 week Cohort 1 - Restoration/Horticulture (DU Mt Center) $873.tuition and housing $500 x 8 = $ 10,984
Cohort 2 - 1-week solar tuition $900 x 8 = $7200
Solar Exam Fee: $790 x 8 = $ 6,320
Trainer: 80 hrs. x $110 = $8,800
Labor: 8 weeks/30hrs week x 8 interns @ $15/hr. = $28,800
Administrative Costs: 8 weeks/2hrs week @$66 = $1,056
Total Costs: $63,160
