My favorite part of our membership campaign is my deeply held belief that membership actively strengthens the Voice of Community. This creates the community that we collectively desire-one that we work together to make our reality. Why is this important? The Voice of Community refers to all aspects of our humanity: values, opinions, beliefs, perspectives, […]
Allow us to introduce the Volunteer Champions of 2017. We all know the term “Champion” means winner. And all the people we are honoring are winners in our eyes. There is a second definition of Champion relevant to us today: “SOMEONE WHO WORKS HARD FOR A CAUSE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OTHERS.” We call them […]
On January 31 the Office of Public Assistance (OPA) in our county was closed due to state budget cuts. This is a great loss to the community as the staff provided a tremendous resource that not only assisted clients with health coverage and benefit applications, but also shared their knowledge with several community service providers […]
Combining Art and Our Outdoor Spaces On February 7th, the Old Roosevelt Project received a 1:1 matching grant for $10,000 from the National Endowment of the Arts to reinvent the outdoor spaces at Old Roosevelt. In creating theses outdoor spaces, we will work with local artists to capture the creative spirit and vibrancy of […]
What Do We Do? What does the Foundation really do? We work alongside community members and cross sector organizations to facilitate community conversations to remove barriers and build assets, through shared responsibilities and collective leadership from every sector. We focus on recognizing and identifying the tension of what is and what could be that drives […]
Arts and Culture is Becoming More Robust In Red Lodge Music to Our Ears On January 5th, 60 people enjoyed a concert featuring Baroque Music Montana under the direction of Carrie Krause at the home of Mitzi and Jim Vorachek, with refreshments provided by Babcock and Miles and Honey’s. Everyone enjoyed the amazing music […]
Check out the Good News with Community Nonprofits Keeping Charities Focused on Their Mission, Not Paperwork A fiscal sponsor is a nonprofit organization that provides financial oversight and other administrative services to help build the capacity of charitable projects. The Foundation is currently the fiscal sponsor for 13 awesome community organizations. One of the […]
What’s Up with Connected Youth? The Early Childhood Development Program Supporting Young Families With the recent closure of an in-home daycare, the Early Childhood Fund has become even more important. This fund supports families that struggle with affording daycare and preschool and it has already funded 4 families with over $2,000 since December. In […]
Meet Danielle and Brittnee! We would like to introduce the newest members to our Team and new members in the community, AmeriCorps VISTAs Danielle Shilling and Brittnee Coiner. They have joined our team to start building capacity for the Early Childhood Development Program and The Youth Internship Program. The AmeriCorps VISTA program is a federal […]
Thanks to You WE DID IT! Inspired by their belief in this community, a very generous person gifted us with a Challenge Match of $20,000 and thanks to our community and our supporters we exceeded that goal putting us over $40,000 raised! Thank you to everyone who supported the Match! With that funding, we will […]