SRP 2018 APPLICATION_ALICE COOPERS SOLID ROCK_BEVERAGE STATION.PDF

SALT RIVER PIMA-MARICOPA INDIAN COMMUNITY
10005 E. Osborn Road, Scottsdale, Arizona 85256 / Phone 480-362-7520 /
12% Gaming Contributions Application
Date of Application: July 17, 2018
Organization Name: Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock
Contact Person: Randy Spencer
Email Address: randy@alicecoopersolidrock.com
Phone: 602-522-9200
Organization Mailing Address: 13625 N. 32nd St., Phoenix, AZ 85032
Project Name: Healthy Beverage Station/Nutrition Grant
Grant Award Request: $25,000.00
Please provide a brief description of the project being submitted to the 12%
SRPMIC Grant program.
Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock (Solid Rock) has been a Phoenix, Arizona based 501(c)(3)
non-profit charity for 22 years.
Solid Rock’s The Rock Teen Center opened in June 2012 and offers music, art, dance,
recording studio, film making lessons and other programs to teenagers ages 12-20 - all
free of charge. Our facility is 28,000 square feet and it has been described as a rock and
roll themed Boys & Girls Club. Solid Rock attracts an average of 100 teenagers per day
and serves 2,000-3,000 youth per year with a variety of internal and external programs.
Healthy nutrition and exercise is an important element to Solid Rock for the youth that
attend The Rock Teen Center. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of activities
including indoor dodgeball, kickball in the park, football in our parking lot and many
other fitness related activities. In addition, we offer culinary classes throughout the year
with restaurant partners providing healthy meals and/or food preparing classes to the
teenagers we serve.
On a daily basis, The Rock Teen Center envisions to have a beverage station where not
only can teenagers have healthy drink items available to them but they can acquire the
skills to create these on their own and maintain a daily habitual routine to provide these in
their daily lives. Instead of high sugar, corn syrup, etc. related soda types of drinks, we
envision our youth to be able to create healthy fruit drinks, healthy iced tea blended
drinks, etc. at our teen center.

This will guide them to life building skills they can apply on a long term basis and it will
assist them in their overall health - lowering their risk for diabetes, heart disease, high
cholesterol, etc. This beverage station will also benefit the daily lifestyles of our
volunteers, staff and visitors from the local community (parents, sponsors, partners, etc.)
at Solid Rock’s The Rock teen center. The beverage station will also encourage positive
interaction and social building skills with other youth, team building skills and offer
teenagers opportunities to not only to have the freedom to make their own positive
decisions but to allow more creativity and empowerment to enter their lives to build their
own blends/recipes every day with a variety of healthy drinks. It also will allow them an
increased knowledge of good nutrition benefits with their daily dietary habits.
With the assistance of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community 12% Grant,
Solid Rock’s The Rock teen center will be able to benefit the lives of thousands of youth
in the local community, in addition to our staff, volunteers, visitors/community partners,
etc.
Beginning Date of Project:
January 2, 2019 (or earlier if Grant funds are received before this date)
End Date of Project:
We do not anticipate an end date with the large need for this and the hope that the
program will be successful. If the program is successful, we will fund this program
internally and with other revenue sources in the future (donations, grants, sponsorship,
internal costs, etc.)
Geographic Area to be served:
Primarily the Phoenix metro area, mostly within the 10 mile radius of our 85032 zip
code. However, our teen center serves youth ages 12-20 from all across the entire State of
Arizona.
Please attach budget on how funds will be allocated (Budget attached)
Total Amount for Project:
$25,000.00 for 12 months
Amount of 12% Request:
$25,000.00
(No Multi-Year Request will be accepted)

If the amount of funding received is less than the amount needed for the project, do
you have other funds to complete the project? (Please Explain):
Yes, we have other community partners that have expressed a desire to possibly
contribute to this program. Once the program is funded, we will also see if some of the
items/product can be donated to save overall costs. Also, we can pro rate on a partial
budget, i.e. $12,500.00 for 6 months.
If you receive SRPMIC 12 % funding, will it be spent (Check One):
Monthly – Monthly and/or weekly as vegetables, fruit, tea and/or juice is needed.
Quarterly
Lump Sum
List of any SRPMIC 12% funds you have received in the past.
We have not received any previous SRPMIC 12% funds. This is our first time applying
for this Grant.
List any other 12 %Tribal Grant funds your organization may be seeking from
other Tribal Governments in 2018-2019.
None
List any other funds you have received from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community (Enterprises Included) and identify the amount and the source:
$1,400.00 in December 2017. We provided four performers at the Christmas Community
Program.
Funding for project/programs may be based on available funding. As such, if
funding were not available for the full the amount of request how would you
prioritize funding.
1. Jet Spray 5 Gallon Refrigerated Beverage Dispenser
2. Tea/Juice
3. Produce, Vegetables/Fruit

Which municipal governmental entity will serve as your pass through or accept
12% funds on your behalf?
We are not affiliated with a municipal government entity so we are unsure how to answer
this. If it is required, it would be in Phoenix/Maricopa County, where our teen center is
located.
By execution of the 12% Gaming Contribution Grant Application the undersigned agrees
that the information contained in the Application is true to the best of the Applicants
knowledge. The Applicant shall notify the SRPMIC if any information in this
Application changes.
Signature for the Applicant Date
Name and Title
The Application shall be signed by the senior elected official of the local government, or
in the case of a non-profit entity, the Chief Executive Officer authorizes to commit the
non-profit entity to apply for, accept, and implement an award from the SRPMIC
utilizing 12% Gaming Contributions.