The Greeley Stampede Foundation launches All-Around Champion Impact Scholarship Program

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The Greeley Stampede Foundation is committed to strengthening our community by awarding academic scholarships and grants. More than 680 local students have already benefited from the aid of the Greeley Stampede Foundation and now one more student will get the scholarship of a lifetime by receiving up to $100,000. The new All-Around Champion Impact Scholarship will award one graduating Weld County high school student a 4-year college scholarship that provides up to $25,000 annually to aid with tuition and fees.

“We are excited to add this scholarship opportunity as we know that this large amount of financial support will be life changing for the recipient,” said Stampede Foundation Chairman, Tracy Damrell. “It is inspiring to see the Foundation evolve from an initial $500 to now a $100,000 academic scholarship while still supporting various other education grants and scholarships that have a direct positive impact on our community.”

For more than 20 years, the Greeley Stampede Foundation has been supporting students on their educational journey by providing financial aid. More recently, the Greeley Stampede Foundation has made a bigger impact to the community by adding additional scholarships and grants to help more than graduating high school seniors. The new All-Around Champion Impact scholarship is the next milestone for the Greeley Stampede Foundation to make a lasting impact on one student per year. This scholarship will be the biggest funds ever awarded by the Greeley Stampede Foundation and the application will open in early 2025.

Initial funds to help get the All-Around Champion Impact scholarship started have been provided by The Anschutz Foundation, Greeley Stampede, and the Greeley Stampede Foundation. One new scholarship will be awarded each year, and the first six years have been fully funded and local partners are invited to contribute to support this effort into the future.

“This is a great opportunity to make a lasting impact on a local student by funding a very large portion of their college tuition. We are extremely grateful for The Anschutz Foundation and the Greeley Stampede as now we will be able to help a local student complete college with hopefully little or no debt,” said Stampede Foundation Treasurer, Justin Watada. “We have a great start to the new program and are hoping that other community supporters will join us to create an endowment to continue to impact a new student. Our goal is to raise $2,000,000 to fully fund the endowment to ensure we can award the life changing scholarship every year.”

Community members can contact Justin Watada at [email protected] for more details or to become a supporter of the new Greeley Stampede Foundation All-Around Champion Impact Scholarship.

ABOUT THE GREELEY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION

The Greeley Stampede Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, was established in 2001 and has grown to impact more than just graduating high school students by awarding more than $1,000,000 to various educational programs and scholarships. Funding for the Greeley Stampede Foundation comes from annual events produced by the Greeley Stampede including the Stampede Golf Tournament, Western Art Show & Gala, Big Buckle Ball, and the new Ray Esola Memorial Sporting Clay Tournament. Financial support was also received in 2024 from numerous personal memorial donations, the Old Bucker organization, The Weld Trust, First Interstate Bank, and the Evans Sam’s Club Spark Good Local grant program.

In 2024, the Greeley Stampede Foundation awarded $102,000 to support local students and educational programs including awarding twenty-seven $2,500 scholarships for graduating high school seniors, high school rodeo athletes, college rodeo athletes, Miss Rodeo Colorado, and an Aims Community College student in the Emergency Medical Services program. The Greeley Stampede Foundation also sponsored the Weld County School District 6 Back-to-School event, awarded $1,000 scholarships to students that are attending alternative schools, provided $500 grants to students who are focused on trade skills, and supported two $2,500 projects at Platte Valley High School and Meeker Elementary. With support of The Weld Trust, a new continuation scholarship program was created to award a second year of scholarship money to Stampede scholarship recipients from the previous year who applied and were selected.

More information is available at the Greeley Stampede Foundation online at www.greeleystampede.org/p/foundation.