Non-Profit News

The Red Cross says it has provided homes to more than 130,000 people. But the actual number of permanent homes the group has built in all of Haiti: six.

The upcoming concert on the Jackson Ranches outside White Sulphur Springs is the primary fundraiser for the nonprofit Red Ants Pants Foundation, which supports women’s leadership groups and working family farms.

Today, EPI employs 99 people worldwide, including 35 in Missoula. In the next few weeks, their 20,000th student will complete one of their field science programs.

The workshop will include sessions on cultivating donors, hands-on marketing using print and social media, developing a communication plan and a discussion on the state of Montana’s local community foundations.

Horner’s discoveries made him one of the most famous paleontologists in the world. He has consulted on the "Jurassic Park" films and is widely speculated to be the inspiration for the character Alan Grant, played by Sam Neill.

A Bozeman nonprofit is hoping that the community will use social media to help it win a $25,000 grant.

Thrive, a local organization dedicated to helping area children and families, is one of 200 organizations nationwide vying for grants through the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program.

Nearly 4,000 organizations across the country submitted applications to get a spot in the competition, which will give out $25,000 grants to 40 winners.

United Luv Project Inc. has purchased and donated more than 190 iPads to hospitals around Montana and in Seattle.

The Special Olympics are in need of volunteers to help out with the games. 1,200 athletes are set to compete with competitions getting underway Tuesday, May 19.

The organization, which got its start as Neighborhood Housing Services and simplified its name in 1997, is a celebrating its 35th anniversary with a staggering amount and range of achievements throughout Great Falls, including helping renovate or build 319 homes and adding $36.5 million to the county tax base.

Donors are starting to give again to the Montana-based Central Asia Institute