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Forming a Multi-Community Alliance

June 29, 2012 By admin

Forming a Multi-Community Alliance The three small towns of Dayton, Elmo and Big Arm form a u-shaped area around Flathead Lake in stunningly beautiful northwestern Montana. The community of Elmo was selected to participate in Horizons — a community leadership program sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation. When their neighbors in the towns of Big […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Family Entertainment and Activities, Folk Arts, Land Zoning - Land Use Planning, Montana, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Public Policy, Youth, Youth Workers

A Pearl in the Making

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Pearl in the Making In Tonasket, Washington, a beautiful river valley town just 23 miles from the Canadian border, leaders are “thinking locally first.” This concept of economic development — keeping residents’ dollars circulating locally — was awakened when the town nearly lost their hardware store. “Our hardware store was destroyed in a fire,” […]

Filed Under: Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Developing Models of Partnership, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Public Schools, Schooling, Washington, Youth, Youth Leadership

Caring for Our Communities and Serving Our People

June 29, 2012 By admin

Caring for Our Communities and Serving Our People Hot Springs, Montana, is tucked away between the beautiful Salish and Cabinet Mountain ranges in western Montana on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish, Kootenai, and Pend D’Oreille peoples. Many of the residents in this tiny community of 500+ people are local Salish/Kootenai tribal members. Others […]

Filed Under: Buy Local, Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Creating a More Localized Food System, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Green Products, Healthful Products, Montana, Natural and Cultural History, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Organic, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Tourism and Recreation, Women-owned Enterprises

Embracing Opportunity

June 29, 2012 By admin

Embracing Opportunity Topping the hill on the road leading into the coastal town of La Push — home of the Quileute people — you will be struck by the breathtaking vista stretching out before your eyes: cobalt blue water, white surf and emerald green forest. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and Olympic National Park, and […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Literary Arts, Mentoring Programs, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Washington, Youth, Youth Leadership

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