Bonners Ferry Local Guide including all of Boundary County Idaho

Boundary County Nonprofits Receive $10,000 in Grants

Friday, May 25, 2007; KVP

The Idaho Community Foundation has announced $271,730 in grants for 114 nonprofit organizations or projects in 10 counties in North Idaho, including more than $10,000 for Boundary County organizations. Grants support a wide range of community needs in Boundary County, including the following: Boundary County, Bonners Ferry, $2,500, provide a shaded, handicap accessible outdoor meeting and eating area centrally located on the fairgrounds. Boundary County Historical Society, Inc., Bonners Ferry, $2,500, help build new museum entrance facing the new visitor center. Friends of Head Start Inc., Coeur d'Alene, $5,000, construct a new Head Start Center to serve low-income children in Boundary County. South Boundary Fire District, Naples, $1,500, buy chairs and tables for a training center/community room. Other grants range in size from $500 for the Idaho Native Plant Society, Inc., Kinnikinnick Chapter, in Sandpoint, to more than $11,000 for Post Falls School District 273 for five different science programs throughout the school district. Out of the total $271,730, the J. A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation Education Fund and the Herbert D. McAvoy Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation provided more than $161,000 for educational opportunities in North Idaho, and $50,000 was anonymously donated by a North Idaho family that created an advised fund in the Idaho Community Foundation. The generosity of all our donors helps us continually strive to address our mission, which is to enrich the quality of life throughout Idaho, said Cathy R. Silak, president and chief executive officer of the Foundation. Our volunteers who review the applications and make grant recommendations to our Board of Directors live in the communities where we make these grants, so we know they work extremely hard to make sure the available funds are fairly and thoughtfully divided. Grants are awarded by the ICF Board, primarily on the recommendation of the Foundations Northern Region Advisory Panel, which is comprised of local community leaders who volunteer their service as grant reviewers. The next Northern Region Competitive Grant Cycle will open Nov. 1. Northern Region ICF directors include John Bennett, Grangeville; Katie Brodie, Hayden; Doug Chadderdon, Coeur dAlene; Richard F. Hutter, Sandpoint; Todd Maddock, Lewiston, and Marc Wallace, Hayden. Northern Region Advisory Panel members for 2006 and the counties they represent included Marty Becker, Boundary; Donna Hutter, Bonner; Greg Johnson, Lewis; Monica Jones, Clearwater; Flip Kleffner, Latah; Dave Lindsay, Benewah; Todd Maddock, Nez Perce; Dennis OBrien, Shoshone; Wanda Quinn, Kootenai; Dick Rognas, Nez Perce; Anna Rolphe, Kootenai, and Mary Schmidt, Idaho. ICFs Northern Region is composed of Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce and Shoshone counties. The Idaho Community Foundation is a statewide nonprofit organization composed of more than 370 individual funds, pooled together for efficient management. Total assets are approaching $70 million. Since its inception in 1988, ICF has made charitable distributions totaling more than $31 million. During 2006, the Foundation awarded approximately $3.3 million. Grants and distributions were made in all 44 counties. - Full Story