ICF grant cycle provides more than $209,000 in North Idaho

by For the Herald
| May 26, 2016 1:00 AM

COEUR D’ALENE – The Idaho Community Foundation’s Northern Region Competitive Grants Panel has selected 97 north Idaho nonprofit organizations to receive more than $209,000 through its annual competitive grant cycle.

Grant recipients are from Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce and Shoshone counties.

Local grant recipients from Bonner and Boundary counties are:

Boundary County

Boundary County High School – $2,000 to purchase a marimba for band students in middle and high school, sound engineering for community concerts and fees for participation in the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival

Explore 4-H Afterschool Fun – $2,500 to provide equipment, supplies and healthy snacks

Trinity Lutheran Church, Inc. of Bonners Ferry – $2,500 to purchase weekend supplemental food kits for children served by the Boundary County Backpacks program

Bonner County

Blanchard Area Seniors, Incorporated – $1,000 to buy specialized rolling aluminum doors to replace sliding doors between the main room and patio room

Bonner Community Food Center, Inc. – $2,500 to feed elementary children in the backpack program on the weekends

Bonner County Partners in Care Clinic, Inc. – $2,000 to pay the Bonner County mental health clinicians working on the crisis line

Bonner Soil and Water Conservation District – $500 to pay for the cost of school bus transportation for students to attend the Water Festival’s outdoor field trip at Riley Creek Campground

Clark Fork High School – $2,680 to expand library resources, such as library databases, electronic books and print books

Community Cancer Services – $2,500 to provide financial assistance to help meet the practical needs for approximately 180 medically underserved cancer clients in Bonner and Boundary counties

Friends of the West Bonner Library District – $500 to buy Books for Babies kits for parents of newborn babies in the West Bonner Library District

Idaho Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender – $750 for training for professionals in north Idaho to provide culturally competent services for the high-risk and underserved LGBTQ+ community

Kinderhaven, Inc. – $1,145 to purchase a new high-efficiency dishwasher

Kootenai Elementary School – $4,000 to purchase informational and literary books for the elementary library

Lake Pend Oreille Alternative High School – $3,000 to provide struggling readers at the alternative high school books for that align with the common core

Memorial Community Center, Inc. – $2,100 to purchase and install an Automated External Defibrillator

North Idaho High School Aerospace Program – $1,000 to lease an airplane hangar at the Sandpoint Airport to house NIHSAP’s airplane building project

Panhandle Alliance for Education Inc. – $2,000 to purchase READY! for Kindergarten parent tool kits for 90 families

Priest River Ministries Inc. – $3,000 to facilitate safety and provide advocacy, education, childcare, outreach, transportation, shelter, food and clothing to aid in the recovery of clients and their children

Sandpoint Area Seniors Inc – $2,500 to continue feeding and caring for hungry seniors and those dealing with Alzheimer’s and memory loss

Sandpoint High School – $3,700 to purchase curriculum, dinner, prizes, stipends and a field trip for first generation students and families in the journey to post-secondary education/training

Sandpoint High School – $1,500 to provide consistent, quality training for upperclassmen mentors as part of a program to help freshman transition into high school

The Guardians Foundation, Inc – $2,000 to provide military veterans and their families safe, stable transitional housing with a focus on providing immediate shelter to those who are waiting or ineligible for other housing or support

West Bonner County School District #83 – $1,500 to compensate the dance instructor for instruction hours, provide costumes for performances, and purchase a CD player for the high school dance program

Boundary County

Explore 4-H Afterschool Fun – $2,500 to provide equipment, supplies and healthy snacks

Trinity Lutheran Church, Inc. of Bonners Ferry – $2,500 to purchase weekend supplemental food kits for children served by the Boundary County Backpacks program