ICF bestows grants

The Idaho Community Foundation recently awarded $176,753 in grants to 77 organizations in 10 counties in North Idaho. The foundation received 142 applications, totaling $598,875.

Grants awarded are listed by counties.

Benewah County

Benewah Community Hospital, to purchase a mechanical patient lift, $3,000.

Greater Benewah County Humane Society, to construct a cover over the outside kennel areas, totaling $2,000.

Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, to promote and maintain comprehensive educational opportunities for children up to age 21 who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired in North Idaho, $3,000.

Bonner County

Arts Alliance Inc., to provide affordable art instruction to a minimum of 500 students in grades K-12 in 2009-’10, $2,000.

Blanchard Area Seniors Inc., to buy or partially fund handicapped curb cut-sidewalks, kitchen washable wallboard-splash materials, and balance of dishwasher and garbage disposal costs, $2,000.

Bonner Community Food Center, to purchase food items for emergency food boxes, $2,500.

Clark Fork Hope Area Senior Services Inc., to purchase a commercial grade range with grill and a commercial refrigerator, $2,500.

Festival at Sandpoint Inc., to fund the Festival’s fifth-grade music outreach program and instrument assistance program, $3,500.

Kinderhaven Inc., to buy appliances, $4,721.

Pend Oreille Arts Council Inc., to provide educational enrichment for third- through 12th-grade students through performing and visual arts outreach programs and projects, $2,000.

Priest Lake Search and Rescue Inc., to buy equipment for the 20-foot trailer used as a mobile command post, $2,000.

West Bonner Library District, to resurface and regrade the existing parking lot at the Blanchard Branch Library, $2,500.

Boundary County

Boundary County Historical Society Inc., to upgrade and improve window and door insulative properties at the Boundary County Museum, totling $2,000.

Boundary County School District 101, to purchase nonfiction U.S., Northwest and Idaho history books for the Bonners Ferry High School Library Media Center, $1,100.

Paradise Valley Volunteer Fire Department, to install carpet in the community room and linoleum in the restrooms, $2,000.

South Boundary Fire Protection District, to buy an emergency generator for the fire station and community room, $3,000.

Kootenai County

Association for Handicapped Recreation Inc., to provide 50 scholarships to Camp Allstars for low-income disabled children, and purchase a laptop computer and software, $3,958.

Coeur d’Alene Arts & Culture Alliance, to administer, promote and strengthen the 2009 Coeur d’Alene Artwalk events, $1,000.

Community Building Partners Inc., to purchase and install software, $1,000.

First Book-Kootenai County, to increase the number of new books distributed to children who, for economic reasons, have little or no access to books in their own homes, $5,000.

First Presbyterian Church, to purchase supplies and curriculum for development of a science and math program, $691.

Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children, to provide scholarships to child care providers in North Idaho to attend child development programs in local colleges, $5,000.

Idaho Drug Free Youth, to conduct the first audit of financial records, totaling $3,500.

Idaho Youth Ranch Inc., to provide 35 teens at Anchor House in Coeur d’Alene, with personal copies of substance abuse treatment curriculum, $1,723.

Inland Northwest Council Boy Scouts of America 611, to involve more low-income youths in scouting programs, $1,500.

Junior Achievement of the Inland Northwest, to support its programs at Post Falls Middle School and River City Middle School, $2,500.

Lutheran Academy of the Master, to purchase materials and supplies for a recently donated greenhouse to create irrigated, raised garden beds, provide shelving and other amenities, and fence the street side of the garden area for safety, $2,000.

Mullan Trail Elementary School - Post Falls School District 273, to turn an unused schoolroom into a Parent and Volunteer Center, $2,000.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - Coeur d’Alene, to maintain existing support and outreach services, and offer educational programs to individuals and families affected by mental illness, $5,000.

National Inventors Hall of Fame, to provide scholarships to economically disadvantaged children, Grades 1-6, to attend the Camp Invention program this summer, $2,500,

Northstar Child Development Center, to purchase playground equipment specially designed to meet the needs of disabled students, $4,345.

Post Falls School District 273, to build an additional kitchen with wheelchair access in the family consumer sciences classroom, $1,325.

Post Falls School District 273, to purchase video production equipment and software to produce and distribute student-created movies about safe playground behavior, $1,250.

Project Safe Place, to provide immediate counseling services, food, personal products, clothing, referrals, transportation, tutoring, recreation and safety to children in the early stages of crisis, $2,500.

Regence Caring Foundation Inc., to provide free dental care to eligible low-income, uninsured children living in North Idaho, $2,000.

West Ridge Elementary - Post Falls School District 273, to purchase materials for parent classes and a parent lending library, $2,500.

Latah County

City of Potlatch, to build a sidewalk along State Highway 6, which is a walking route for students and adults, $3,000.

Festival Dance and Performing Arts Association Inc., to provide 4,000 third- through sixth-grade students with dance and music enrichment programs at 20 schools, $2,500.

J-K Good Samaritan Food Bank, to purchase food and operating supplies, $2,000.

Kendrick Junior-Senior High School, to expand and promote the arts and creativity of youths with the Art Club program, $1,000.

Moscow Day School Inc., to purchase a replacement play structure, $2,000.

Palouse Discovery Science Center, to design and construct 16 “MathBuilders” exhibits and take them to rural schools for outreach programming, $2,000.

Troy School District 287, to help complete the current construction of the Troy baseball field, $2,000.

Shoshone County

City of Wallace, to restore and preserve the exterior of the historic Wallace City Hall, $1,000.

Prichard/Murray Volunteer Fire Department, to complete a portion of a recent addition to Prichard Fire Station to be used as a community center for the public and a training facility for the department, $1,000.

Wallace District Mining Museum Inc., to buy a laptop, scanner, external hard drive, and archival supplies to support collection automation project and enhance external outreach, $1,237.