NEWS
ICICLE FUND AWARDS $2M IN GRANTS TO NONPROFITS IN NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON
March 21, 2021
The Icicle Fund has awarded $2M through a series of grant programs in the arts, environment, and cultural and natural history.
Like many non-profits this year, Icicle Fund has experimented with ways to best play its role in the regional ecosystem of organizations that aim to enhance the quality of life in North Central Washington. The Fund’s Board of Directors, comprised primarily of non-profit representatives, decided to more than double the grant funding available in 2021 and provide creative new grant programs to meet the needs of our communities. This year, the Fund will support the region with over $2M in grants.
Through the Operating Support Grant Program, 32 organizations received unrestricted operating support, allowing them the flexibility to be strategic, nimble, and sustained during a year of high uncertainty while preparing for being viable and impactful post-COVID.
In partnership with Icicle Creek Center for the Arts and Methow Arts Alliance, Icicle Fund also provided 130 Covid Relief Grants as direct support for working artists in Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan Counties. Artists have been particularly hard hit during the pandemic and their work is sorely needed as we build a post-COVID future together.
The Fund also increased support through its partner organizations to projects and initiatives that foster a collaborative atmosphere, connect people to place, and are aligned with the Icicle Fund mission to support art, environment, and history in North Central Washington. The Fund believes that strong connections to the land and the communities in which we live are nurtured through artistic expression and imagination, an understanding of our past, and experience in and love for our natural landscapes and wildlife.
“We have heard from so many of our grantees that this support is coming at just the right time to get their programs restarted”, says Icicle Fund Executive Director, Christine J. Morgan.
She continues, “A key question now is: How do we take the best of what was learned and created under the pandemic and integrate it into the future workings of our communities and region? I envision new partnerships with individuals, tribal and government entities, school districts, private businesses, and others as we carry out our shared mission of enhancing the quality of life for all life in our region.”
Additional information can be found at www.iciclefund.org
List of Grant Recipients - click here