Florence Wasmer Fund for Arts & Culture/FY2010

The Wasmer Fund for Arts and Culture provided grants totaling $57,600 to organizations that further arts and humanities education and enjoyment and awareness of the arts and humanities in the Inland Northwest.

Blanchard Area Seniors Incorporated (Bonner County)
Blanchard Arts and Culture Program

Connoisseur Concerts (Spokane County)
32nd Annual Northwest Bach Festival

Contemporary Arts Alliance (Spokane County)
Spokane International Film Festival

Eastern Washington University Foundation (Spokane County)
EWU Get Lit! Writers in Residence Program

Festival Dance and Performing Arts Association (Latah County)
School Outreach Educational Programs by Kusun Ensemble from Ghana

First Night Spokane (Spokane County)
First Night Spokane-General Operating Support

Mobius Kids (Spokane County)
Mobius Kids Art Supply Program

Panida Theater (Bonner County)
Sound stage equipment

Project Joy (Spokane County)
Minstrels' vests

Spokane Arts Commission (Spokane County)
Murals Project

Spokane Children's Theatre (Spokane County)
The Portable Sound System

Spokane Public Schools Foundation (Spokane County)
Spokane Schools 5th and 6th Grade Band And Strings Spectacular

Spokane Symphony Society (Spokane County)
Spokane Symphony Arts and Education

Transitional Programs For Women (Spokane County)
Arts Program at the Women's Hearth

University of Idaho Foundation  (Latah County)
Jazz Dance Artist at the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival

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Florence Wasmer Fund for Children & Families/FY2010

The Florence Wasmer Fund for Children and Families provided grants totaling $70,519 to organizations that support children, families and individuals through shelter, nutrition, health care, education and other human services. The organizations include:

Association for Handicapped Recreation (Kootenai County)
Camp All-Stars

Bonner Community Food Center (Bonner County)
Help our clients dine in 2009

Catholic Charities (Spokane County)
CAPA Leadership Team

Communities in Schools (Spokane County)
Resource Coordination at Cheney Middle School

Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and North Idaho (Spokane County)
Log Booms for Camp Four Echoes

Gonzaga University (Spokane County)
Mentoring Programs

Miryam's House of Transition (Spokane County)
Miryam's House

Our Place Community Ministries (Spokane County)
Children's New Shoe Program

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Inland Northwest (Spokane County)
Healthy Food for Growing Kids

Spokane Low Income Housing Consortium (Spokane County) 
OneStopHousing.org Expansion Project

St. Joseph Family Center (Spokane County)
Psycho-educational Classes for Healthier Families

Syringa General Hospital (Idaho County)
Pediatric Resuscitation Equipment

 Transitional Programs For Women (Spokane County)
TLC EduCare

Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery (Spokane County)
Diaper Changing Station Improvements

Youth Family Adult Connections (Spokane County)
Crisis Residential Center

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Community Strategies Grants/FY 2010 Round 1

Inland Northwest Community Foundation awarded more than $388,000 through the Community Strategies Grant Program in December 2009. Grants ranging between $7,800and $35,000 will support these organizations and programs:

American Red Cross, Inland Northwest Chapter  (Spokane County)
Communication system to enhance service delivery to communities in disaster response.  

Bonner Soil and Water Conservation District (Bonner County)
Lakeshore Assessment System, a voluntary educational program to assist shoreline property owners in making well-informed decisions about the management of their lakefront property.

Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County (Spokane County)
Program support to launch a Positive Place for Kids and Teens.

Catholic Charities (Spokane County)
St. Margaret's Shelter Community Warehouse

Cheney Historical Museum (Spokane County)
Disaster Recovery Stabilization project to preserve the Cheney Historical Museum collection for the public benefit.  

Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Conservancy (Bonner County)
The Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Conservancy Project to expand land conservation project services to landowners that have properties worthy of permanent conservation on key waterways,and  enhance outreach conservation educational initiatives.

Family Promise of North Idaho (Kootenai County)
Systems Development to End Homelessness.

Impact Capital
Vibrant Communities Spokane project to work with local municipalities and community-based partners to achieve broad-based goals important to growing healthy neighborhoods. 

Northeast Community Center Association (Spokane County)
Expansion for medical services and youth programs.  

Olive Crest Abused Children's Foundation (Spokane County)
The Foster Family Program to recruit, train and provide licensing to new foster families so that they can provide safe and loving homes to children in the community who have been victimized by abuse.

Partners with Families and Children: Spokane (Spokane County)
Chronic Neglect Research and Demonstration Project to assess treatment for families referred to public child welfare agencies.

Reach for the Future (Spokane County)
Reach for the Future! After-school for tutoring and mentoring for Lidgerwood elementary students under the guidance of the Project Coordinator. 

Spokane Valley Partners (Spokane County)
Food Warehouse and Distribution Area Remodel 

Town of Fairfield (Spokane County)
Community Center Revitalization project to add emergency exits to both the top and lower levels of the Community Center. 

University of Idaho Foundation (Latah County)
Community Garden for Priest River 

Valley Meals on Wheels (Spokane County)
Senior Meals Program to provide hot meals, frozen meals, and liquid nutrition for elderly and disabled persons throughout Spokane County. 

Wallace District Mining Museum (Shoshone County)
Collection Automation Project to computerize the museum's collection, improving collections management, expanding collection accessibility, and improving interpretation of the collection. 

YWCA of Spokane (Spokane County)
Program support for the Opportunity Center that helps women by increasing their access to resources, raising their incomes, and providing opportunities for them to enhance their employment-related skills.

Community Strategies Grants/FY 2010 Round 2

Inland Northwest Community Foundation awarded more than $415,000 through the Community Strategies Grant Program in May 2010. Grants ranging between $6,000 and $30,000 will support these organizations and programs:

Active4Youth (Spokane County)
Elementary school cross country program

Arc of Spokane (Spokane County)
Building consolidation project

Blanchard Area Seniors Incorporated (Bonner County)
Senior/Community Center kitchen completion

City of Kooskia (Idaho County)
City Park basketball half-court

Clearwater Valley Hospital and Clinics Foundation (Clearwater County)
Telepsychiatry services

Coeur d'Alene School District (Kootenai County)
Teen Aid high school mentoring/tutoring project 

Communities in Schools of Spokane County
Resource coordinator at Glover Middle School

Community Action Center (Whitman County)
Davis Way Transitional Housing Project

Community Cancer Services (Bonner County)
Enriched Recovery Program

Daybreak Youth Services (Spokane County)
Achieving for Tomorrow program to provide services for children

Harrington Opera House Society (Lincoln County)
Auditorium ceiling insulation and sheeting

Holy Names Music Center at Fort Wright (Spokane County)
Project TEAM (Together Engaging in Alternatives through Music)

Idaho Youth Ranch/Anchor House & Family Services Programs (Kootenai County)
Outreach and Functional Family Therapy Project

Inland Northwest Land Trust (Spokane County)
Family Forests Forever land conservation project

Latah County Library District (Latah County)
Water-wise demonstration garden

Loon Lake Food Pantry and Resource Center (Stevens County)
Loading dock and storage facility

Pawsitive Works (Boundary County)
Pawsitive Works youth development program

People's Pantry (Ferry County)
People's Pantry Community Garden Backyard Harvest

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Inland Northwest (Spokane County)
Fair Share Project

Spokane Area Business Foundation (Spokane County)
Career Exploration Days

St. Joseph Family Center (Spokane County)
Affordable access to mental health care and psycho-educational classes

St. Vincent de Paul Salvage Bureau (Kootenai County)
St. Vincent de Paul H.E.L.P. Center to assist people who are homeless

Thin Air Community Radio (Spokane County)
Capital project to build full power community radio station

Tincan (Spokane County)
Youth Transitions Drop Out Prevention Project

Transitions (Spokane County)
New Leaf Bakery Cafe job training program

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Pullman Community Grants/FY 2010

Inland Northwest Community Foundation awarded nearly $4,000 through the Pullman Community Grant Program to support these organizations and programs.

Backyard Harvest
Town Orchard Project

Neill Public Library
English As A Second Language Collection Revitalization 

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Columbia County Children’s Fund/FY 2010

Inland Northwest Community Foundation awarded $4,000 through the Columbia County Children’s Fund Grant Program to support these organizations and programs.

Blue Mountain Counseling
Summer Recreation Program

Touchet Valley Arts Council
Missoula Children's Theater

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Opportunity Grants/FY 2009

Spokane Public Library Foundation
Gates Foundation online hardware matching grant

Loon Lake Land Conservancy
Loon Lake Centennial Park redevelopement project