Help SPRUCE put down roots! We are currently in our Capital Campaign to build our permanent facility @ 743 CR 510 Durango, CO 81303!

SPRUCE has received two offers on the property. 

Due to our USDA Funding not coming through, the SPRUCE Board has made the heavy decision to put the SPRUCE property up for sale. 

This year's SPRUCE Spectacular is a day in Ouray! Hiking, picniking, and hot springs! 

Back to School Time! SPRUCE Open House Aug. 30 5-7pm

SPRUCE will be hosting a booth at the Bayfield Block Party again this year. Find us on June 15th, July 20th, & August 10th. 

Natalie will be attending Rural Philanthropy Days for professional development opportunities, networking with other community leaders, and relationship building opportunities with statewide funders.

May 24th, postponed to July 22, will be SPRUCE's final planning meeting with LaPlata County for the building project!

SPRUCE's Circus-themed school year culminated in a Circus Talent Show on April 27th at the Durango Arts Center Theater. The students did an amazing job!

SPRUCE's Read-A-Thon Fundraiser was a great success. We raised $3,830.00 toward our Forest of Knowledge Reading Center in the new building. 

SPRUCE is holding a Read-A-Thon 
Fundraiser to raise donations for our Forest of Knowledge Reading Center in the new building. 

SPRUCE Moose Posse students participated in a Mock Trial. They found Eugene Fitzherbert, AKA Flynn Rider, from Tangled guilty, and sentenced him to 55 years!

SPRUCE has raised $180,000.00 towards our Capital Campaign.

Septic design done for SPRUCE property.

SPRUCE Bonfire
We held a huge bonfire burning weeds from the property. We enjoyed cooking smores around the fire. 
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SPRUCE Spectacular
Tico Time Resort
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Circus Themed
Open House
75 Students Enrolled
9 Dual Enrollment Students
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SPRUCE has raised $130,000.00 for the Capital Campaign

SPRUCE participated in building community rapport at the Bayfield Summer Block Party with a wet sponge throwing activity at our booth. We will continue having a presence at future block parties on July 21 & Aug 18.

End of Year Event
We had a wonderful End of Year event at the lake. We have enjoyed Pine River Industrial's facility this year and thank Andy & Ellis for providing such a great space as landlords!

Each student at SPRUCE learned about entrepreneurship including; budgeting, marketing, profit & loss by creating products from household items presented at their businesses on Market Day culmination event.

We received an unexpected surprise in the mail in the form of a grant of $27,500.00 towards our Capital Campaign from the Dellora A & Lester J. Norris Foundation.

We launched our SPRUCE' n Up our Sports Zones Exercise Campain to raise money to purchase playground & sports equipment. 

Groups began planning their unique challenge in their specific area of Destination Imagination to prepare for the competition on 3/5/22! 
AA = Improvisation 

• Festival Frenzy

MH = Science Up Close

• Dust Mite Skit      

MM = Monster Manners

• Skit & Tree House

Christmas Caroling Community Service Event to the neighbors of the new SPRUCE property.

Capital Campaign 
Meet, Greet, & Eat
Event to preview exterior colors and features of new building.

SPRUCE has reached 15% of Capital Campaign Goal.

SPRUCE's six year struggle with purchasing property is published in the Durango Herald. 

We planted roots and broke ground on our property!

SPRUCE approves floor plans for the community learning campus based on a student led class blueprint from 2015.

Capital Campaign Website
is Launched

Past SPRUCE
Locations

SPRUCE moves into storage units and is temporarily building-less due to high rent prices.

Architect Janet Wiley published first-draft schematics.

SPRUCE Purchased 3.1 acres at 743 CR 510 Durango CO 81303 to build a Community Learning Campus.

SPRUCE approved to hire  Architect Janet Wiley to design school building.