The ninth annual Great Fish Community Challenge ended Sept. 15 with more than $5.2 million donated to 77 Flathead Valley nonprofit organizations in five weeks. This preliminary total excludes the Great Fish Match Fund, which will be announced Oct. 24 at the Great Fish...
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Great Fish Community Challenge Ends September 15
This Friday at 5 p.m. is the deadline to support more than 70 Flathead Valley nonprofit organizations raising funds in the 9th annual Great Fish Community Challenge. Nonprofits receive 100 percent of the gifts designated to them, as the costs of the campaign are...
Great Fish Community Challenge Opens with Launch Party Aug. 10
Whitefish Community Foundation kicks off the 9th annual Great Fish Community Challenge on Thursday, Aug. 10 with the Great Fish Launch Party at First Interstate Bank in Whitefish. This year’s Great Fish Community Challenge runs Aug. 10 to Sept. 15 and will benefit 78...
78 Nonprofits to Participate in 2023 Great Fish Community Challenge
A record number of Flathead Valley nonprofit organizations will participate in the 9th annual Great Fish Community Challenge hosted by Whitefish Community Foundation August 10 to September 15. The Great Fish Community Challenge is a charitable giving campaign in which...
$50,000 for After-School Programming in Evergreen School District
Whitefish Community Foundation recently presented Boys & Girls Club of Glacier Country with a $50,000 Kids Fund Grant to support the organization’s after-school program for K-8 students in the Evergreen School District. In 2021, the foundation announced that it...
$50,000 for Preservation of Owen-Sowerwine Natural Area
Whitefish Community Foundation awarded a $50,000 Major Community Project Grant to Flathead Audubon Society for the conservation of the Owen-Sowerwine natural area. Since 1992, Flathead Audubon Society has managed the 442-acre Owen Sowerwine natural area, a section of...
$383,000 to 46 Local Nonprofits!
Whitefish Community Foundation held its annual Community Grant Awards Celebration on May 18 and presented $383,201 in grants and special awards to 46 nonprofit organizations representing projects and programs in Bigfork, Browning, Columbia Falls, Eureka, Evergreen,...
Community Grants Awards Celebration May 18
Whitefish Community Foundation invites the public to its annual Community Grants Award Celebration on May 18 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in downtown Whitefish. Whitefish Community Foundation received a record number of Community Grant applications this spring from...
Free Workshop Helps Nonprofits Craft Outreach Campaigns
Whitefish Community Foundation will host a workshop on April 20 for nonprofit organizations interested in building effective marketing campaigns to promote their programs, events and issues. The workshop is part of the foundation’s Nonprofit Development Partnership...
WCF Awards $20,000 to Whitefish Skatepark Association
Whitefish Community Foundation awarded a $20,000 Major Community Project Grant to support the expansion of the Dave Olseth Memorial Skatepark to include terrain for beginner and novice skateboarders and help disperse the growing number of park users. Whitefish...
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