Metropolitan Mortgage Donation Will Help With Restoration Project
Metropolitan Mortgage Co. In Spokane, recently donated $1,000 to help fund the historically correct exterior restoration of the Post Falls 1890 Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church which was built in the 1880s. Community Building Partners Inc., Is the Post Falls nonprofit group in charge of this two-phase community project.
The Post Falls Community Presbyterian Church has agreed to sell the two buildings which were brought together at their current site at the turn of the century. After the exterior restorations are complete, phase two of the community project will include interior renovations to provide space for community events as well as tourist destination promotions.
For information, call Susan Jacklin at 773-5844.
Private gifts and pledges to the University of Idaho hit record levels for the fiscal year ending June 30, with nearly 17,000 donations totalling more than $22 million.
Excluding contract or governmental grant money and bequest intentions, the UI Foundation raised the amount which included four gifts of more than $1 million.
The largest financial commitments came from the Joe Albertson family, UI alumni Gary Michael (class of 1962), and Meryle Kay Michael (class of 1963), and the Albertson Corporation - a total of $6 million for a new College of Business and Economics building on the Moscow campus.
The 1999 fiscal year marks the beginning of the nucleus stage of The Campaign for Idaho, a multi-year fundraising campaign geared at providing support for the strategic initiatives of the university.
The University of Idaho recently received an additional $442,000 in state funds as part of Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne’s Initiative for Excellence in Idaho Higher Education to attract and retain high quality faculty to the state.
The governor and the legislature awarded $1.3 million in all to UI, Boise State University, Idaho State University and Lewis-Clark State College. Each institution will match what they received.
The matching money from UI, which will come from nonstate sources and internal reallocation, will total at least $884,000 and be used to bring new researchers and teachers to the state and to retain high quality faculty and students already here.
The funds will also help UI and North Idaho College to match dollars to establish a new position in Post Falls/Coeur d’Alene to support a new computer engineering/computer science degree to be offered by UI, Washington State University and Gonzaga University in the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene corridor.
A large chunk of the additional funds will be used to help support work done by the UI in partnership with the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).
The University of Idaho is a member institute of the Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA), a group which also includes BSU, ISU, Montana State University, Utah State University, WSU and the University of Montana.
The initiative, along with support from INEEL, will allow the UI to strengthen its new Center for Secure and Dependable Software, which is one of just a half-dozen in the country working with the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, the National Science Foundation and private companies working on information security.