Invest in the Future of Education

Since 1993, the Telluride Education Foundation (TEF) has been providing support to the children and educators in the Telluride Schools. We direct resources straight to where they are needed most. The funds we award to educators touch the lives of each and every student in the K - 12 Telluride Public Schools and Telluride Mountain School.

As our success has grown, so has our reach....and our need!

You have the ability to help the educators and students in the Telluride area through your support of the Telluride Education Foundation (TEF). The easiest way to do so is to make a cash gift to TEF. Checks are payable to the Telluride Education Foundation and are tax deductible donations. Checks can be mailed to TEF at:

Telluride Education Foundation

PO Box 3548

Telluride, Colorado  81435

Please include your full name, address and email so that we may keep you updated on our accomplishments.

As we look to the future, it is clear that TEF will continue its mission to gather and coordinate resources that expand and enrich the educational opportunities for all students in the Telluride Schools. We greatly appreciate philanthropic gifts which are critical for the support of TEF.

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Thank you!

"Thank you, TEF, for your dedication in supporting educational and enriching opportunities for our students!" Carolyn Jackson, TIS Librarian

"TIS's now annual Denver Museum of Nature and Science Outreach Program has engaged and motivated students in their exploration of science.  From hands-on dissection of hearts and lungs, forensics labs to solve a crime, to an inflatable star lab, this two-day science expose sends our students in 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades home with many enthusiastic stories for their families." Kristin Hoins, 4th grade teacher

"Hooray for the Telluride Education Foundation and the opportunities it affords to our students! Thanks in part to their generosity, we will once again bring writers into the schools every month of the year to lead workshops, perform their work and inspire the students to take on their own writing endeavors." Rosemerry Trommer, Writer's in the Sky Specialist

“One of the things that appeal to me about the Telluride Education Foundation is the board’s genuine interest, concern and support for the extracurricular ideas of individual teachers. TEF board members make a very personal effort to understand what it is that impassions a teacher to go above and beyond their call of duty and to foster that passion with grant support. This approach is bolstered by TEF’s outreach efforts to educate teachers about the grant writing process – how to go about it and what is available to them. I am certain that these efforts contribute to the creative processes of our teachers as they dream up new ways to impassion our students.”                                                                      - Mark Galbo, TEF Board Member