Upcoming Events
June 26-28, 2012
"Housing Strategies
in a Challenging Economy"
Billings Crown Plaza Hotel 27 North 27th Street Billings, Montana
Committee contact Mary Lou Affleck at maffleck@bresnan.net or call (406) 534-2606
New
"Giving Book" charitable
gift guide
Great Falls residents have new resource for giving. About three months ago in this space, an appealed to area nonprofits to get their mission statements and program descriptions together and submit them for publication in The Giving Book, a first-of-its-kind clearinghouse of such information in the Great Falls area.The Giving Book lists 62 area nonprofits, 21 of which have endowments.
An extra feature of the book explains how the Montana Endowment Tax Credit works. The range of worthwhile causes it lists may surprise you.
Copies are available at the NeighborWorks office at 509 1st Ave. S. in Great Falls.
Growing from an exploration in establishment of a Statewide Community Land Trust for permanently affordable housing, the Trust Montana Steering Committee came to see the potential power of recognizing the shared mission of land stewardship, in general. For background information see the web page at http://housing.mt.gov/FAR/clt.mcpx.
We believe that by working together we can raise the profile of permanent stewardship in the state and thereby attract more significant levels of funding than are currently available to the divergent, sometimes localized, land advocacy groups now at work. We believe Trust Montana could attract interest nationally and become a politically significant voice for land stewardship with our State Legislature.
We are reaching out to develop coalitions of mutual support among housing, conservation, farming, and historic preservation groups in order to better and more holistically protect and preserve Montana’s unique natural, cultural, agricultural and historic landscapes, communities and properties for the long lasting health and benefit of all Montanans.
eHome America - Online homebuyer education course offered in Montana counties where no homebuyer education classes are available.
Get more information.
NeighborWorks
A Place to Call Home Endowment
NeighborWorks has launched a new endowment program, "A Place to Call Home."
The endowment will help create a savings account that can be used to fill gaps when funding is sparse. NeighborWorks is also hoping the new endowment will cater to philanthropists in the community. Charitable donations will qualify for the Montana endowment income tax credit.
Make a secure online donation to
"A Place To Call Home" Endowment
or contact NeighborWorks at
406-761-5861 for more information.
YOU CAN QUADRUPLE YOUR SAVINGS WITH A MATCHED SAVINGS ACCOUNT!
Participants can earn up to $4,000 for every $1,000 they save!
Save for a future home purchase,
a small business investment
or for education.
For most Americans, having assets like a home,
a business, or education have been the
first step toward economic security and a strong family.Families with low to moderate incomes
usually have trouble taking that first step.Through NWMT's Matched Savings Account Program, savers acquire budgeting skills, knowledge of healthy, steady savings and then exercise their new skills by setting goals, attending money-management workshops and participating in one-on-one counseling sessions with a case manager to help them achieve their goals.
Learn more . .and get started saving today!
Become A Match Savings
Account Donor
Would you like to be instrumental in
creating lasting impact for a
Montana family's future?
One single mother tells the story how she learned ways to budget and save. She simply changed her route to work each day to avoid the temptation of buying a latte and told her children that they could only to out to eat once a month. She did meet that savings goal and is now a very happy successful homeowner.
Please consider becoming a Match Donor and give a hard-working Montana family your support as they learn to take that first step toward financial stability.
(Just note that you would like your donation
to be for the IDA Savings Program and we will be sure
a hard working family gets YOUR MATCH Donation)
NeighborWorks Montana
509 1st Avenue South
Great Falls, MT 59401
Phone: (406) 761-5861
Toll Free: 1-866-587-2244
Fax: (406) 761-5852