2013 Community Grants
Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center
Location: Wolf Point/Big Timber, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
Their mission is to cherish and pass forward the cowboy way of life, American Indian cultures, and our collective Montana Heritage, for generations to come. The grant money is going towards camera equipment to help develop the oral history project within the “museum without walls” touring exhibition trailer, the mobile unit of this Heritage Center.
Groundworks Farm
Location: Fort Shaw, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
Here, vegetables and livestock are grown using a diversified, integrated farming model, with products directly marketed to local eaters. Their work is motivated by the recognition of intimate connections between healthy lands, nutritious and tasty foods, and thriving communities. The project is to extend current water infrastructure to better accommodate crop and animal rotation.
Redtail Woodworks
Location: Helena, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
Redtail Woodworks is a woman owned woodworking business in Helena, MT. The project funds will assist the purchase of a high quality planer. Redtail Woodworks hopes to fulfill its potential by showcasing a successful woman-run local business and a beacon of education and empowerment for the women of Montana.
Klingaman Cattle
Location: Harlem, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
The Klingaman family run a cow/calf operation in Harlem, MT with some hay and small grains mixed in. They are building better handling facilities for the calves, so the livestock and people working the stock are in a safer, more efficient environment.
The Golden Yoke LLC
Location: St. Ignatius, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
The Golden Yoke is a new dairy farm in St. Ignatious, MT. It is the first new dairy in the state in over 20 years and there will be an educational focus to the operation. They are have plans to open a creamery and will be attending the Penn State Ice Cream Shortcourse with their grant monies.
Red Lodge Area Food Partnership Council
Location: Red Lodge, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
The mission of the FPC is to vigorously promote a sustainable, local food system that encourages a better quality of life for our citizens, improves our community’s economy and self-reliance, and preserves the land for generations to come. They are working to create a food hub to create a food hub to connect locally produced food with individuals, restaurants and institutions.
Mountain and Farm
Location: Moiese, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
The mission at Mountain and Farm is to create an opportunity for young adults to refine their individual and collective knowledge, purpose, and power by offering a mountain and farm based educational experience focused on practical homesteading and wilderness expedition skills. The farm is based in Moiese, MT and the grant will be used to facilitate some of the business development activities.
Meagher County Senior Center
Location: White Sulphur Springs, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
The Senior Center’s commitment is to help seniors remain at home and independent as long as possible. That is possible with good nutrition and healthy life styles. Their goal is to provide a catalyst for neighborhood and community involvement & education through the development of an organic kitchen garden. The Kitchen Garden will enhance nutrition and physical activity, beautify the landscaping around the center as well as provide intergenerational connections.
Gallatin Grown
Location: Churchill, MT
Grant Awarded: $1,000
Based in Churchill, MT, this vegetable farm continues the family’s long-standing tradition of agriculture. They want people to not only know their farmers, but also know what it means to farm and what farming means to the community. Ultimately, their goal is to find common ground and cultivate relationships between people and farmers. The funds will help with a new vegetable washing facility.
Agriculture in Montana Schools
Location: statewide
Grant Awarded: $500
The goal of AMS is to give Montana students a greater awareness of the contribution of agriculture to their lives and to the national economy and society, so they might become better-informed citizens. Students will gain a better understanding of how Montana’s number one industry, agriculture, affects their lives.
Women’s Foundation of Montana
Location: Helena, MT
Grant Awarded: $500
The Women’s Foundation of Montana builds resources and leads change to advance the economic self-sufficiency of women and create a brighter future for girls. The project is the planning of a Women’s Leadership Celebration in conjunction with Sheryl Sandberg’s visit to Butte this fall for the Economic Development Summit.
KP Creations
Location: White Sulphur Springs, MT
Grant Awarded: $500
Based in White Sulphur Springs, this woman owned leather business also includes horsehair hitching. The grant is going towards help towards educational courses on metal engraving to help expand her growing business.
Thrive
Location: Bozeman, MT
Grant Awarded: $500
The missions of Thrive is to ensure that every child will have an opportunity to grow, succeed and become a valuable member of our community through their programs that strengthen families and empower children and youth. The project is the development of innovative Teen Think Tanks as part of the Girls for a Change empowerment program.
Flathead FFA
Location: Kalispell, MT
Grant Awarded: $500
Flathead FFA is a student organization that serves the two high schools in Kalispell, MT. The FFA program is a self supporting organization within the school district. Classes are held at the VoAg center, which is a separate campus and encompasses almost 100 acres with pasture, crop land, animal barns and corrals, 6 classrooms, a large shop, and greenhouse.
One Montana
Location: Bozeman, MT
Grant Awarded: $500
One Montana is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to moving Montana forward through rural-urban partnerships. They do this by the collaboration of likely and unlikely partners to build large-scale initiatives to solve our state’s challenges.