[MCN] Winners Announced for Missoula Project for Nonprofit Excellence

[Meredith Printz]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 6, 2016

Contact:

Meredith Printz, Executive Director, Missoula Community Foundation: Meredith at MissoulaCommunityFoundation.org or 406-552-7347

Winners Announced for the Missoula Project for Nonprofit Excellence

Local groups awarded grants to build capacity and create a more vibrant community

 

MISSOULA, (Mont.) – This week, three local nonprofits received grants from the Missoula Community Foundation to build stronger organizations and create a more vibrant community. The Foundation selected Blue Mountain Clinic, Inc., Home ReSource and Missoula Community Access Television (MCAT) as the 2016 grant recipients of the Missoula Project for Nonprofit Excellence (MPNE). 

 

These three nonprofits were awarded funds to work with a local consultant to assess their organizational strengths and needs for improvement. The goal is to identify ways each group can become more effective and efficient in serving clients and their communities, and then help them execute the recommendations to strengthen internal operations necessary to reach their full potential. Each organization and its capacity-building priorities are described briefly below:


Blue Mountain Clinic is an independent family medicine clinic that provides nonjudgmental, safe and compassionate healthcare. It has never accepted government funding, which allows practitioners to have complete autonomy in how they provide care. The MPNE grant will help Blue Mountain assess the best way to position itself within the ever-evolving world of medicine while remaining true to their principles.

Home ReSource’s mission is to reduce waste and build a vibrant and sustainable local economy. Their building materials reuse center employs 30 people, diverts more than 1000 tons of materials annually from the landfill, and provides job training to people experiencing barriers to employment. After years of planning, they recently purchased their store site. This capacity building grant will help the organization manage their rapid growth and navigate the site purchase process.

Missoula Community Access Television (MCAT) promotes the spread of information and exchange of ideas by providing channel time, equipment and training to as many organizations and people as possible. Since 1990, it has donated more than $1,000,000 of in-kind video production services to 700 Missoula groups. MCAT is partnering with the Missoula Public Library, Children's Museum Missoula and SpectrUM to fundraise and campaign for a new library/community center that would house all of these resources under one roof. MCAT is also shifting from a television model to a media center model, which will focus on education about various forms of media. These major transitions make now the perfect time for this capacity building grant.

MPNE, now in its third year, is coordinated by the Missoula Community Foundation. It is conducted in partnership with the Helena-based Big Sky Institute for the Advancement of Nonprofits (BSI). MPNE is a place-based approach to capacity-building grantmaking that grew out of a multi-year demonstration phase developed by BSI and a group of Montana funders.

MPNE is a collaborative grantmaking program, with Oro y Plata Foundation, Llewellyn Foundation, Pride Foundation, Martha Newell and the Missoula Community Foundation participating in leadership and decision-making over the past three years. This year, the grants were made possible with support from Caroline & Willis Kurtz, the Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, High Stakes Foundation, Martha Newell, Pride Foundation, United Way of Missoula County and the Missoula Community Foundation.

The Missoula Community Foundation connects people who care to causes that matter. Over the past fifteen years, the Foundation has given more than $650,000 to 135 projects, inspiring long-term local philanthropy to ensure the vitality of the Greater Missoula community. For more information, please visit missoulacommunityfoundation.org


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Meredith Printz, Executive Director
Missoula Community Foundation
110 W. Front Street
P.O. Box 8806, Missoula, MT 59807
Office: (406) 926-2846
Cell: (406) 552-7347
meredith at missoulacommunityfoundation.org
www.missoulacommunityfoundation.org




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