L to R: Daniel Stenberg, MCCF; Jan Dodge, MCCF; Nick Ybarra, Save the Maah Daah Hey; Sandy Rieker, Pioneer Museum/McKenzie County; Mark Clemons, Long X Arts Foundation; George Owen, Summit Counseling; and Marcia Hellandsaas, MCCF.
The McKenzie County Community Foundation gave out $3,800 in grants in December 2017. Recipients were: Save the Maah Daah Hey, Pioneer Museum/McKenzie County, Summit Counseling and Long X Arts Foundation. These grants were made possible with key gifts from area donors.
Grant requests totaled $13,300 on $78,100 of county-wide projects. "We wish we could have done more for the many wonderful projects that were submitted," says Marcia Hellandsaas, MCCF committee chair,"but we are working to grow the endowment for our community, so in future years, we can become a bigger responder to area service needs that improve our quality of life."
MCCF is a permanent endowment established on 10/14/2010 to help improve the quality of life in McKenzie County. Each year earnings of the fund are awarded as grants to priority projects. MCCF is a component fund managed by the North Dakota Community Foundation which has served ND communities for over 40 years and manages over 600 charitable funds from around the state.
Donations to the fund from local or out of state can be given as memorials, from estates, or outright gifts, and may qualify for the North Dakota Income Tax credit of 40% if they are paying ND income tax.
For more information: http://www.NDCF.net/mckenziecounty or call 701-444-3451.
Future grant applicants must be IRS approved as 501(c)(3) nonprofit, be a tax exempt group, or government agency. Groups without such designation seeking to apply may enlist a fiscal sponsor. Application is done online at http://www.NDCF.net/mckenziecounty. Anonymous gifts may be made by contacting the NDCF development director at [email protected].
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