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The Montana Fund For Tolerance
Grants Awarded for 2007
Billings Catholic Schools
K-8
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$2,120 |
Purchase anti-bullying and tolerance
curriculum that is relevant to each grade level.
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Equinox Theatre Company,
Bozeman |
$1,700 |
For Social Engagement Theatre, which uses
theatre to help youth explore values of
Tolerance and inclusion, and discover the origins of hate and other injustices.
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Institute for Peace Studies
Rocky Mountain College:
Billings
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$1,000 |
Support an outreach program bringing
international visitors into the elementary and
middle school classrooms to share their
cultural heritage, including the struggles andthe victories that relate to their nationalities.
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Montana Safe Schools Coalition |
$2,500 |
Train teachers, school counselors & other
school staff on how to interrupt anti-gay harassment in the classrooms and hallways.
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NCBI: Missoula |
$4,000 |
Support the Respect Club in each of
Missoula’s three middle schools, where
students learn age-appropriate prejudice
reduction and violence prevention strategies in a safe and comfortable environment.
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A VOICE --
Art, Vision & Outreach in Community Education
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$5,000 |
Use photography and writing to bring together
Native American and white middle school-
age youth to Pablo explore cultural
differences and similarities and nurture understanding.
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Lewis & Clark Library,
Helena, MT
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$2,000 |
Used to support the "Big Read Under the Big Sky" program -- a month-long program of diversity and tolerance workshops centered around Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. |
Grants Awarded for 2006
Bitterroot Human Rights Alliance |
$3,500 |
Prejudice Reduction Project that addresses bullying/harassment and Indian Education for All in schools
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Gallatin Gateway School |
$1,500 |
Training for counselors and principal on Steps to Respect anti-bullying program
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Holter Museum of Art |
$5,000 |
Support for “Bridging the Divide,” an intergenerational, cross-cultural oral history & photography project that promotes healthy self-awareness among Caucasian and Native American youth in Helena and on the Fort Peck and Salish-Kootenai reservations
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Lewistown Junior High |
$4,800 |
Training for three middle school teachers in A Framework for Understanding Poverty to train other teachers on the culture of poverty and help children in poverty situations succeed in school.
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Montana Safe Schools |
$2,000 |
Training for teachers, school counselors & other school staff on strategies to reduce peer-to-peer anti-gay harassment.
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Townsend K-12 District |
$1,000 |
Travel costs for a Holocaust camp survivor to speak to school children and the public.
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The Working Group |
$3,000 |
Travel costs for three youth leaders from Kalispell to Not In Our Town conference in Bloomington, IL, in October 2006.
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If you have questions, contact Program Director Brian Lewis.
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