Funding Priorities

High Quality Pre-K
COW (Classroom on Wheels) Bus
  • 4 buses (aka classrooms)
  • 7 classes during school year
  • 80-100 children receive Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Instruction NDE Pre-K Standards
  • Parent involvement
  • Serves Storey and Lyon County
  • 2 classes Mark Twain, 2 classes Dayton, 2 classes Fernley, and 1 class Stagecoach

Current need:

  • $16,000 anchor grant cut, which could result in lost classrooms
  • $20,500 for Teacher Aid who presently works at 10 hours per week and need for her presence in classrooms 40 hours per week.
  • $500 for nutrition snacks and $500 for books
  • $40,000 for another teacher and two more classes

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Positive Youth Development
Comstock Kids (Storey County)
Before/After and Summer Programs K-12
  • Before School average daily attendance: 21
  • After School average daily attendance: 32
  • Summer Program average daily attendance: 48
Youth Prevention Programs (Storey County)
  • Prevention (Stand Tall) clients served: 5
  • Academic (Tutoring, College) clients served: 5-8
  • Global Voice clients served: 8
Comstock Youthworks (Storey and Lyon Counties)
  • In-School Youth clients served: 50
  • Out-Of-School Youth clients served: 10

Current need:

  • $17,000 for Global Voice to support 12 youth and 5 adults travel to Ireland and implement a community service learning project to help a community.
  • $1.3 million to complete Community Center Phase 2. Phase 2 will provide space for the Storey County Community Library, art and recreation facilities, conference room, commercial kitchen, training and technology center, and more room for youth programs such as Before and After School, Middle and High School Programs, and Summer Program.

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Employment Assistance
Case Management (Storey & Lyon County)
  • Assistance with job search and preparation
  • Remove employment barriers
  • Link to other benefit programs
  • Emergency and childcare assistance
  • Adults served: 73
  • Adults obtained employment: 40
  • Childcare assistance: 10
  • Clients received emergency service: 35
Business Center (Storey County)
  • Open to public Mon-Fri
  • 12 average daily use

Current need:

  • $150,000 to create a Workforce on Wheels bus to bring employment assistance to individuals and families living in rural communities. The bus will include computers with internet, workshops, printing services, resume services, job searching services, and case management.

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Mental Health & Advocacy
Counseling Services
  • Referral and Court-related
  • Counseling sessions per week: 20
  • Victims of Violence served quarterly: 20
  • Non-victim related clients served quarterly:15
  • Counseling services provided for minimal to no cost
  • Advocacy for Victims of Violence
  • Case Management services for seniors and indigent individuals/families
Women's Parlor
  • Weekly women's group

Current need:

  • $600 to provide meals or snacks at the Women's Parlor (weekly women's groups)

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Food & Emergency Services
Storey County
  • Monthly Food Distribution
  • Emergency food and other assistance on a needs basis
  • Food assistance for homebound seniors
  • Volunteer Barter Program exchange for services
  • Total Served: 50
Lyon County—Silver Springs
  • Food Pantry services Mon-Fri
  • Monthly food distribution
  • Total served: 1200

Current need:

  • $2,000 to improve nutritional value of food closet distributions, especially for seniors and homebound individuals.

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Social Justice
Northern Nevada
  • Homelessness and hunger
  • (Currently in Tonopah, Lovelock, Pahrump)
  • Re-open Storey County Library after county closed
  • Low Income populations
  • Service Learning promoting citizenship
  • Victims of Violence
Social Justice Institute (Statewide)
  • Annual one-day event to recognize local heroes of Social Justice and share tools for instituting Social Justice

Current need:

  • $25,000 for Social Justice Institute
  • $50,000 to help rural coalitions in Tonopah and Pahrump become self sufficient with their mission to address homelessness and hunger in rural Nevada as well as other issues rural Nevadans face.

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Community Chest, Inc. Administration
  • Building and grounds maintenance (pay off north parking lot, pave south parking lot, air conditioning, new carpet)
  • Business Manager's and Project Management/Development Director's positions
  • Emergency funds (aka unrestricted funds) to support budget holes and maintain agency budget in the black ($100,000)

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