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The concept is simple, at least in words: Create a nonprofit organization to purchase, renovate and run the Wilma as a community theater where the existing array of films and concerts would share time with performances by local arts groups, lectures and other community events.

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Huey Lewis has a residence in the Bitterroot Valley south of Missoula and is a friend of John Tyson, the chairman of the Arkansas-based food company.

These encore fellowships could have a disproportionate benefit to Oregon, Intel’s largest operating hub. The California-based company has 16,000 employees in the state, more than any other business.

To help encourage more creativity, the Alliance for Global Good http://afgg.org/, a nonprofit group that promotes philanthropic efficiency and effectiveness, has established a fund to support charitable organizations that come up with new business models. The alliance’s Innovation Fund will initially have about $10 million.

We’re pursuing every option we can to help the companies through tough times."

"Our mission has always been education, and I think we’re kind of taking the whole world of entrepreneurial education to a different level," Nager says. "Our mission’s not to create startups. It’s to create more capable entrepreneurs."

Entrepreneurs and creative initiatives can post their project proposals for free to HelpersUnite.

The University of Montana School of Business Administration, in partnership with the Learning by Giving Foundation, is now accepting grant proposals from Missoula County nonprofit organizations.