Grant Opportunity
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Information from Catherine Cooney, Program Director for the Montana Community Foundation:
The Montana Community Foundation receives grant money annually from the Steele-Reese Foundation for a small grant program for rural communities under 5,000 in population. We make grants of up to $5,000 in the areas of rural education, rural humanities, rural welfare, rural health and rural conservation. We only have $47,000 to distribute for the entire state so it’s very, very competitive. This is the only general grant program we have now for nonprofit organizations in Montana since all of our other unrestricted grant money is being devoted to programs for our local community foundations.
A few of you have requested that I send this information to you every year so you can share this opportunity with your local charities. Please do not apply for this program for your local community foundation, but if you would like to forward the information to a few nonprofits in your area, attached are the guidelines and the application form. The due date for applications is February 15, 2008.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
Catherine Cooney
Program Director
Montana Community Foundation
17 2nd Street East, Suite 210
Kalispell, MT 59901
p 406-755-4525
f 406-755-4525
ccooney@mtcf.org
www.mtcf.org