Ben Strader

Ben Strader is the Executive Director of Blue Mountain Center, a residency program for writers and artists located in Blue Mountain Lake, New York. He is the founding board chair of the Indian Lake Theater, a new life as a community stage and screen for a defunct movie house in central Hamilton County. For many years Ben served as the Secretary of the Blue Mountain Lake Volunteer Fire Department and the Indian Lake Planning Board. He’s on the planning team for the Indian Lake Equality and Justice Committee, and helped create the Adirondack Nonprofit Network, a group dedicated to supporting Adirondack communities and the non-profit organizations that serve them. He is the proud father of two Adirondack natives, a seventeen year old daughter and a fifteen year old son.

The Adirondacks are full of organizations that we love and that are irreplaceable. Cloudsplitter will continue to evaluate and prioritize systemic threats so that we have the resources to respond now and into the future. Given the unknowns of the current funding environment, we wanted to be clear with our grant applicants that we may be less likely to fund capital projects, events, projects far outside the Adirondack park, and very large grant requests ($50K+) at this time. If you feel something within those categories deserves our attention, please contact chenelle@cloudsplitter directly prior to submitting a grant to discuss further.