everyone gives
With Colorado state school funding threatened and creeping to an all time low, the AEF impact is as important as ever. We have shown that when our parents and local community come together, we can make a difference!
If your family or student feels the positive impact of what we do, please consider supporting AEF. Every dollar counts. Some of our most loyal supporters give $5 – $100 a month for the year. What does that say to AEF? We see what you are doing and are thankful for this public school.
Please help how you can.
Ways to give
Donate to General Fund
Join our “everyone gives” effort. Every dollar counts and no contribution too small. Let’s get to 100%
Our goal is to have everyone participate in some way, and that the important thing is showing support, not the amount given. Every parent can contribute to the school’s success, no matter how modest the donation.
At AEF, we want to ensure that Outdoor Ed/ExEd never gets cut from the school budget. We NEED your help. If 50 years of alumni can come together – we can ensure that our future generations will have the same ODE/ExEd experience. With a fast-changing, digital world, the experience of the outdoors is as important as ever.
Clark’s Market Non Profit Mondays
Shop At Clark’s Market Snowmass Village every Monday from April 21, 2025 to May 26, 2025 and Clark’s Market will donate 5% of your total sale when you drop your receipt into the AEF Giving Box!
City Market Community Rewards
If you shop at City Market and use a Value Card (shopper’s reward card), Aspen Education Foundation can benefit at no cost to you. Once you have enrolled your card in the Community Rewards program and designate Aspen Education Foundation our school will receive monetary rewards each time you shop at City Market or Kroger.
Here’s how to do it
1) Log on to www.citymarketcommunityrewards.com
2) Create your digital account for shopping
3) Go to “find your organization” and select Aspen Education Foundation, or search for non-profit number DS394
4) Link your card to our organization
Olivela
Olivela has partnered with The Aspen Education Foundation to help fund our schools. Twenty percent of the proceeds from shopping on this site Olivela x AEF will go back to AEF. Start shopping now!
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“AEF provides a huge amount of funding to our schools, making our unparalleled Outdoor Education, STEM, robotics, technology and IB possible. Along with these educational needs, AEF funds additional school counselor positions and Aspen Family Connections. AFC would not be able to operate without them. If recognition were needed for the unbelievable generosity and compassionate focus of our community, it is this — embedded in AEF’s efforts is care for the whole child. AEF doesn’t just focus on narrow concerns but directs the full weight of its philanthropic energies to supporting all those in need — children, and also their family foundations”.
— Katherine Sand, Aspen Family Connections
“We are parents of ACDS students, but it seemed shortsighted to me to only be supporting that school given that 75% of my kids’ peers are in the public school. It didn’t feel like we were lifting the community up by just supporting one of the schools. Hopefully others will realize we need to support everyone here for Aspen to remain so special.”
— Meredith Loring and Sami Inkinen