RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIVATE SKI RESORTS WITH LOCAL COMUNITY TROUGH PHILANTOPIC SOCIAL ACTION By Dani Buyo, Colorado State University , Ski Area Managemet program participant. Oct. 2016 “La Compagnie du Mont Blanc” , trough their foundation, keep close the relationships with the valley community. Chamonix in “Haute Savoie” French Alps is one of the symbols the origins of mountaineering on Europe, as son as situated down to the Mont Blanc Mountain. The company in charge to operate the ski areas and lifts in the entire valley; and employ around 40% of families in their different departments. Source: Communauté de Communes de la Vallée de Chamonix Mont-Blanc and Compagnie du Mont-Blanc corporative website. Mt Bachelor Ski Area in Oregon, shows us the special relationship with Bend, the nearest town of the ski base, a community very involved on the town social life and pure nature lovers. And supporting the program “Let the Kids Ski” fo Bend Endurance Association, with an strong weigth on the town community. Source Minde, (2016) "Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation (MBSEF) will continue to offer the same high-quality youth, young adult, collegiate and masters Nordic programs they have offered at Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center since it opened in 1984 under its "authorized user" status granted by Mt. Bachelor and on record with the Deschutes National Forest. KTWZ.COM, (2015) Grandvalira Andorra case, trough Grandvalira Social designate an amount of 85 thousand dollars for season to philanthropic activities with local community. These range of actions go from economical helps to needed families, to cover the expenses of material for national scholarship ski program or covering medical expenses of employees family on huge surgery aids or direct economical fee to the eight ONG associations in the country. Source Grandvalira Social Foundation intership information. Source Grandvalira Social foundation memorandum. After examinee their action and relationships with the employees group, we found several common points on the Grandvalira and “Compagnie du Mont Blanc how they establish the social projects that support, and how designate the resources in order to arrive as wider as possible involving the community. The ski for school program named on Mt Bachelor or scholarship ski program named in Grandvalira Andorre have common points on the concept , and match on the main goal: Encourage and help the kids as the future clients or they can be part of the future employees group. As soon as is usual specially in Andorre that employee kids join in first employment experiences, becoming part of new “ski bums” on early ages. In Chamonix the importance of ski on the scholarships are higher, because a very high % of population are mountaineers or skiers then ski, trekking or mountain biking reach all the population. Anyway the foundation support the activities promoted by youth associations on the valley.

The main difference come from the funds precedence, while Mt bachelor base the main part of Budget on the Charity ski week, Chamonix and Andorra have a direct amount on the general Budget. But they are managing quantities between fifty and seventy thousand dollars on these community relationship programs. At the end the less important are the way to obtain the funds, the really important are how to manage its to establish a good relationship with community. Concretely of Grandvalira Social Fund, attach down the memorandum document of community action last season, public information that personally I complete on the document attached. References: La Communauté - Communauté de Communes de la Val lée de Chamonix Mont-B lanc (Informations only in french) -KTVZ.COM news sources, 2015 http://www.ktvz.com/news/bend/bend-endurance-academy-mt-bachelor-spar-over-nordic-center-access/68799625 -Minde, Peter (2016), Equal and Reasonable Access': The Issue of Trail Use at Mt. Bachelor, fasterskier.com, Bend – Oregon. http://fasterskier.com/blog/article/equal-and-reasonable-access-the-issue-of-trail-use-at-mt-bachelor/ -Corporative websites http://www.compagniedumontblanc.fr/fr/fondation-compagnie-du-mont-blanc https://www.mtbachelor.com/info/in-the-community/ http://www.grandvalira.com/en/grandvalira-social