Do to economical hardship the Roundup community consolidated the school, city and county libraries into the community library. Many of the Library board members, staff and friends of the library have participated in the Horizon program. These people have had roles in the Horizon program as participants, advisory board, and facilitators. This has been a strong partnership that has benefited the Community and Library.
The Roundup Memorial Hospital and Medical Center has developed a grant committee to assist with ongoing needs of the facility. Two employees from the hospital attended a grant writing workshop that was held in Roundup. This workshop inspired the formation of the grant writing committee. The committee consists of staff, administration, and hospital board members.
The group has already submitted a proposal for a new autoclave. The existing autoclave is 60 years old. The committee is currently working on several other proposals as well.
Sarah Earwood, the chair of the committee, stated “we know that we can not run a hospital on grant funds alone, but anything we can do to improve the facility and the quality of service provided to the patients will have a huge impact to the community.”
A grant writing workshop was identified as a need through the Horizons program. MSU Extension and the Horizon program brought Mike Vogel to teach the all day class.
Mike Vogel was a guest in Roundup to present a work shop on grant writing through the fiscal support of Horizons. Again, the city, county, schools, library, hospital and other groups were present to learn how to write effective grant applications. Mike did an overview of grant language, avoiding review process pitfalls, potential grant sources and grant accoutablity. Numerous groups left armed with the knowledge and ability to pursue grants/funds to enhance and/or fund projects that otherwise would not happen.
One very major concern kept surfacing as we traversed through the steps of the Horizons Project, which was a continual conflict of multiple activities/meetings on the same date. These over laps of dates and activities have limited the communities resources, spreading them so thin that most of the activities were not successful. Years ago the community had a CORE group that met to coordindate dates to prevent this. The current group taking part in the Horizon Program felt that we should develop a communication process similar to the old one, but functional in this day and age of advanced technology. Since the Web Page was already in process as a promotional to the very existence of Roundup, the group felt that the Web Page could also serve as the host for the Calendar of events. After serveral meetings with the web page committee, the Group came up with a process to enter dates and activities on the site. The Web Page was noticed to the local churches, businesses, clubs and schools to post their activity dates. The churches have responded 100%, the school linked their web site, and many of the clubs have listed their activities and meeting dates.