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2009 Project Grants:

Organizations receiving the 2009 Project Grants include:

  • Big Sky Senior Services (Billings), which enhances the independence and quality of life for the elderly population in Yellowstone, Carbon, and Stillwater Counties, through home health services, volunteer friends program, elder abuse prevention, and a representative payee program.
  • Family Support Network (Billings), provides intervention, support and assistance to children and families with mental illness or are at risk for abuse and neglect to Yellowstone, Carbon, Big Horn, Musselshell, Stillwater and Sweet Grass counties. Services are offered to more than 200 families annually at their facility, in the community and at family homes.
  • Fort Peck Fine Arts Council (Glasgow), which serves primarily eastern Montana and works to preserve the historic Fort Peck theater; educate and entertain through the performing arts; encourage youth in the arts; and provide a forum for local and regional artists.
  • Human Resource Development Council of District IX, Inc. (Bozeman), which serves Park, Gallatin, Madison, and Meagher counties, and supports and advances the quality of people’s lives through innovative and dedicated leadership in community development and human services, through such services as housing, youth development, energy assistance, Head Start, transportation and volunteer programs for seniors and retired people.
  • Montana SHARES (Helena), which serves organizations statewide and is a partnership of Montana-based nonprofits devoted to working together to improve the quality of life in communities throughout the state, and works with and on behalf of its members to promote the organizations, provide training and support on a year-round basis, and there by help them expand and diversify their programs.
  • Spring Meadow Resources (Helena), which provides ongoing support to over 100 adults with developmental disabilities, through education, residential and supported living services, recreation activities, and assistance to make informed choices.