Project Fundings By The Bellows Foundation

The Bellows Foundation has provided funding for the following projects:

Civic Engagement Projects:

Facilitating the Southern Arizona/Sonora Bi-National Renaissance Group’s efforts to rejuvenate and reinforce a shared vision and set of values, and to help develop the future economic prospects, of the bi-national region.

Katrina Response: The Bellows 14-passenger bus was driven from Patagonia, Arizona to Baton Rouge, Louisiana several days after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf states to provide transportation to evacuees traveling to Red Cross evacuation shelters in Houston.

Community Support

Providing fiscal sponsorship to Constructing Circles of Peace, a non-profit organization receiving grant money from New York University for providing domestic abuse treatment utilizing “Restorative Justice” that brings the family, including the abuser, together with key community members as an effective healing process.

Start-up assistance and funding of $5,000 to Asociacion de Promotoras de Nogales (APN), to provide bi-national support and promotion of the well-being of families in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora who are living at or below the povery level.

Start-up funding of $5,000 and providing Bellow-designed fund-raising material for KPUP: Patagonia Community Radio.

Patagonia Water Resources Study: Funding of $4,000 for one-year water quantity and quality study to establish baseline data.

Economic Development

Facilitating the early development process to establish an Advanced Metals Welding School near the Nogales International Airport to train students in welding of advanced aviation metals as the first component of a future aerospace-oriented engineering junior college.

Education Projects:

Secondary School Level

Provided $10,000 grant to support the practicum learning environment created by San Miguel High School, Tucson, Arizona.

Matching funds of $5,000 for STEP: Student Expedition Program fund-raiser with Bellows-designed fund-raiser material.

Provided grant of $3,800 to assist the Arizona Department of Education and Arizona State University complete their Hunnicut Academy colloquium for high school students interested in becoming K-12 teachers.

Postsecondary Level

Facilitating the planning of a solar plant by a five-student team from University of Arizona’s McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship.

Provided $60,000 for five-day Colloquium of 43 participants from 13 colleges and universities at the Circle Z Ranch in Patagonia, Arizona.

Provided $3,000 for four-day curriculum-building gathering in Patagonia.

Provided $12,000 for ten-day visit of 23 students and faculty of Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Provided $3,000 for five-day visit of 20 students and faculty of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.

Secondary and Postsecondary

Development costs of the Patagonia Learning Center in Patagonia, Arizona.

Early R&D costs for the prospective Boulder Learning Center, in Boulder, Utah.

Early R&D cost for the prospective Petersburg Learning Center in Petersburg, Alaska.

Graduate Level

Research and travel cost grant of $7,500 to Teachers College, Columbia University to enable six students to present at January 2005 AAC&U Annual conference in San Francisco on the subject of The Multicultural Self, with a focus on the development of inter-cultural identity and maturity.