Community Grants Program
Pursuing grants, sponsorships, and partnerships to fund local services, infrastructure, and educational opportunities.
What's Happening
What We're Building
These are the initiatives the Coalition is actively launching and growing. Each one is built by residents, for residents — and every one of them needs neighbors who are willing to step in and help.
Major Initiative
Rural Education Campus — Charter / Magnet School Plan
We need a rural education campus serving our children from elementary (kindergarten) all the way through 12th grade. Long bus rides, limited rural access, and growing student populations across Montura, Pioneer, Flaghole, LaDeca and surrounding areas make the case for a K–12 school built here, for our kids.
We're exploring several models a campus like this could take:
- K–12 rural campus
- Agricultural high school
- Trade school / workforce academy
- Technical education campus
- Charter school
- Magnet school
- Rural STEM & Agriculture Academy
The district's own planning documents project countywide high-school capacity utilization exceeding 109% in future years. With real data from our community, we can turn that into a real argument for a campus here.
Step 1: A Real Rural Education Survey
The first step is gathering hard numbers from our community. We're building a Rural Education Survey to collect:
- Household address
- Number of children and their ages
- Current school attended
- Bus ride length
- Interest in: Agriculture, Welding, Mechanics, Electrical, Construction, Nursing, EMT, Business, Technology
If we discover, for example, 400 elementary, 250 middle, and 300 high school students across our rural communities, that becomes real leverage — student population, growth, transportation burden, and workforce demand turn this from a complaint into a facilities proposal.
Want to help with the survey or the school campaign? Email hello@monturacivic.com.
Emergency Preparedness Network
Building a resident-led network for hurricane response, evacuation support, supplies coordination, and neighbor check-ins.
Water Quality Initiatives
Independent monitoring, public reporting, and advocacy to protect wells, canals, and the C-139 basin.
Agricultural Education
Workshops and resources for small farms, livestock owners, and homesteaders to preserve our rural way of life.
Youth Leadership Development
Mentorship and civic engagement programs to grow the next generation of Montura leaders.
Pioneer Chapter
Launching a Pioneer chapter to expand Coalition participation and leadership beyond Montura's core neighborhoods.
LaDeca Chapter
Standing up a LaDeca chapter to bring neighboring rural residents into shared advocacy and projects.
Community Buying Cooperative
Pooling resident purchasing power for feed, fuel, supplies, and services at fair rural prices.
Business Partnership Network
Connecting local businesses with residents and the Coalition to strengthen the local economy.
Community Classes & Workshops
Hands-on classes on preparedness, gardening, well care, financial literacy, and more — taught by neighbors for neighbors.
Want to help build one of these? Email hello@monturacivic.com and tell us which one.