New RMC Board Members

In October, RMC was honored to have five community activists accept our invitation to join the Board of Directors - Grant Bennett, Principal and Founder of Proximity Green; Maggie Bolden, Director of Client Relations at Palace Construction; Dan Morgan, Principal of Daniel G. Morgan & Associates; Girma Tilahun, Garden Court resident; and Patrick Wieland, Partner at Delphi Holdings.  Each new member is active in the affordable housing industry and has a strong desire to bring better awareness to this cause. We are excited for the new year to get underway!

RMC's 20th Anniversary

Many people attending Rocky Mountain Communities’ (RMC) Annual Awards Dinner and Gala on November 3rd were there to support RMC’s 20th anniversary in providing affordable housing and services to Colorado’s low-income working families. Still more were there in support of Mr. Arthur McDermott, the recipient of the Gordon Von Stroh Service to Community Award presented at the dinner. The funds raised from the event, nearly $13,000, will help support affordable housing and program services to the 1,034 families living in RMC’s multi-family apartment communities located across Colorado.

Resident Programs - Community Gardens

Rocky Mountain Communities is celebrating 20 years of providing affordable housing to some of the most vulnerable people in the state.  This year, we expanded the community garden at our Mountain Terrace property to give our residents access to more vegetables and healthy food.  Join us at our Annual Awards Dinner and Gala celebrating 20 years to learn more about Rocky Mountain Communities and the programs we provide to our residents - young and old.

Neighborhood Stabilization For Free

The recent economic downturn has caused an epidemic of foreclosures in neighborhoods around the country. This is hardly news.  This is an opportunity for us to bring our attention to our neighbors who can use help and participate in stabilization efforts.

Perhaps the biggest challenge is that we barely know our neighbors. We live on cell phones, the Internet, and in a media age. Frequently, we have friends in neighborhoods miles away, and yet we don’t even know the name of the residents two houses away.  An important component to the stability and value of our neighborhoods is the sense of safety and security for ourselves, our families, our elderly, and our children.

Accordingly, consider the following actions which will not add to the Federal deficit, but will make your neighborhood a better place:

1. Cut the grass of your neighbor’s yard.
2. Hold a block party, and get to know your neighbors.
3. Shovel the snow from your neighbor’s driveway.
4. Watch and feed your neighbor’s pets when they are out of town.
5. Clean up any vacant lots.
6. Keep watch over any vacant homes. Pick up any trash, newspapers, or mail.
7. Invite your neighbors over for dinner.
8. Check in on any elderly living in the area. Run errands for them.
9. Stage a neighborhood work day to clean up trash and improve landscaping.
10. Bring cookies to your neighbors.

It’s the residents of a neighborhood that give it both life and value. Areas where people care about one another are poised to be the kind of locations that others will want to move into. Rather than allow our neighborhoods to fall into a state of disrepair and neglect, let us step up our efforts as neighbors to care for our neighborhoods.

The beginning of RMC

RMC’s mission is to develop, own and manage affordable housing and provide support services to help individuals succeed in life and build strong communities.  Our vision is that households in Colorado should have the opportunity to feel connected to a community and live in a decent and affordable home.  Founded in 1992, RMC will celebrate its 20th Anniversary this year, 2012.   In the past 20 years, more than 11,000 RMC families have benefited from affordable housing and programs.

The majority of our residents, working families, earn less than 50% of the area’s median income (in Denver County, the income of a single parent with two children is $27,500 or less).  Without RMC’s decent and affordable housing our residents (some of the state’s most vulnerable) might be forced to live in overcrowded and sub-standard housing or even worse – become homeless.  It is for these people and the over 1,000 children live in our communities that we work tirelessly to provide a safe, stable home.

Our Values - Integrity

Our Values - Dignity

Our community gardens, nutrition and cooking on a budget classes, the summer lunch program for children, the after school snack and homework assistance programs, are but a few of the dynamic programs and services that we provide for our residents to succeed in life.