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News from the Greater Polson Community Foundation
POLSON — The Greater Polson Community Foundation helps other nonprofits in new endeavors that they couldn’t afford to fund otherwise.
“Montana Community Foundation incentive grants have allowed GPCF to award grants in our community beyond what the earnings from the permanent endowment could provide,” foundation Treasurer John Cowan said. “In six years, we have dispersed more than $125,000 into our community.”
Thanks to a $2,500 grant in 2013, the Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County was able to pay for 75 club members to participate in eight 30-minute swimming lessons at the Mission Valley Aquatic Center after school and throughout last summer. The funds also helped the nonprofit Mission Valley Aquatics.
In addition to the swimming lesson grants, GPCF funds will serve many other youth-oriented organizations this year.
“The incentive grants GPCF has been awarded from the Montana Community Foundation have also allowed us to grant funds to the Polson Ski Club this year,” said President Penny Jarecki. “A bus from Polson goes to Whitefish each Saturday during the ski season. This grant will allow local youngsters, whose parents cannot afford it, the opportunity to participate in the local ski program.”
These important contributions give children and families opportunities their financial situation would otherwise deny them.
