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Creating Stability and Fostering Collaboration in Sandpoint

For many hard-working people, an unanticipated event like a car breakdown, illness or accident can escalate into a crisis, particularly when access to support and assistance are not easily available. Linnis Jellinek understands that well. As Director of the Community Resource EnVision Center (CREC), Jellinek is dedicated to providing help to those in need and ensuring that the process is streamlined and accessible to all.

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Restoring Land, Water and Hope

Stories / By Rachel Quick

“We are in the forever business,” says Dave Schaub, Director of Inland Northwest Land Conservancy (INLC).

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Jumpstarting the Future

Stories / By Rachel Quick

Now, more than ever, philanthropy must invest in organizations serving those who have been historically marginalized and underserved, ensuring they have the resources needed to reduce inequities and create thriving communities.

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Equipping Firefighters, Empowering Communities

Stories / By Rachel Quick

“Our whole community depends on our rural fire district,” says retired military nurse and Idaho resident, Barbara-Lee Jordan.

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Revitalizing the Wallace Community Pool

Stories / By Rachel Quick

Nestled in pine forests of North Idaho, Wallace is a small town with a big personality. Emblazoned on a manhole cover in the center of the town are the words, “The Center of the Universe.” For decades, the Wallace community pool has served as an anchor in that universe.

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Cultivating Potential Sustaining Fund

Stories / By Rachel Quick

Pamela Javier never hesitates to put the needs of others before herself. Whether she is caring for her infant daughter or volunteering at a local charity, her compassionate heart and determined spirit are hard at work. As a young mother and first-generation Asian American college student, Pamela dreams of becoming a registered nurse.

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Supporting Babies, Stabilizing Communities

Stories / By Rachel Quick

Three-week-old Maddie was delivered to the doorstep of Tricia Hughes in 2008. Over the next months, Hughes, a foster and adoptive mother, cradled Maddie through the symptoms of withdrawal. Now a member of the Hughes family, Maddie received care and support that many babies born under similar circumstances never receive. Headed by Hughes and a dedicated team of volunteers, the nonprofit Maddie’s Place strives to change that reality for babies born in Spokane, where drug-dependency adversely impacts more than 10% of all live births.

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Offering Childcare and Hope in North Idaho

Stories / By Rachel Quick

The relief of not having to worry about what essentials I have to cut out or skimp on to pay childcare was huge for my family,” says one grateful parent who received an emergency childcare scholarship through a program of United Way of North Idaho.

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Activating Compassion: Generation Alive

Stories / By admin

The Vision: Generation Alive is one of Spokane’s hidden gems, or as CEO JJ Vancil likes to say, it is “Spokane’s best-kept secret.” The mission of Generation Alive (GA) is to empower youth to compassionately engage the needs of the community through action and service. However, the heart of what they do is teaching kids to care and giving them the tools

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A Family’s Legacy in Malden and Pine City

Stories / By admin

Malden and Pine City, Washington are the VanDyke family’s heritage home. The cultivated fields of this sprawling fertile land have been the livelihood and cherished home of generations of this family as well as many others in this beautiful area. Traveling with his family from Wisconsin, John Wesley VanDyke settled on the Pine City bluffs

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