2020 Great Fish Challenge another Success Donors gave generously throughout the campaign during the 6th annual Great Fish Community Challenge organized by the Whitefish Community Foundation. The 2020 campaign concluded on September 18th at 5:00 p.m. with a preliminary...
Whitefish Community Foundation Welcomes Four New Directors to the Board The Whitefish Community Foundation’s Board of Directors is a group of community minded donors, leaders, and professionals. They come with various expertise to oversee the Foundation’s governance,...
The SECURE Act repeals the stretch IRA beneficiary payouts and changes the time from life expectancy to 10 years. What plan could replace the former stretch IRA distribution? Could a plan combine the tax-saving benefits of a stretch IRA with a term-of-years or life...
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) ActHelps Nonprofits Weather the Storm The CARES Act passed in congress last week enables nonprofits of all sizes to apply for a Small Business Administration (SBA) Loan. Of crucial importance is the provision to...
The Whitefish Community Foundation is pleased to announce a $50,000 award from The Kids Fund grant program to CASA for Kids, a local nonprofit organization. The award will fund an innovative Peer-to-Peer Youth Case Management Program to begin immediately. The Kids...
Whitefish Community Foundation - A Year in Review I recently read an interesting comment by another community foundation asking why our sector identifies as something that it is not, rather than something that it is, “nonprofit.” While our sector is not profit...
It was another wild ending to the 5th annual Great Fish Community Challenge with $733,800 raised in the last week of the challenge and $246,000 in the last day. Whitefish Community Foundation awarded a grand total of $2,824,355 at the 5th annual Great Fish...
The Great Fish Community Challenge has officially raised over $1 million in donations in the first five weeks of the Challenge! The Whitefish Community Foundation organizes the Challenge each year and supplies the percentage match on the first $20,000 raised by each...
ONE OF SAM HOUSE THRIFT ROOMS SAMARITAN HOUSE You may know it as the Samaritan House, a homeless shelter, but around the shelter it is referred to as Sam House and it is in fact so much more than just a shelter. Sam House was established as a shelter in Kalispell in...
Whitefish Community Foundation recently accepted a grant for $10,000 from BNSF Railway Foundation to support the organization of the Great Fish Community Challenge. This is the fourth year in a row that BNSF Railway Foundation has provided funding for the Challenge....
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