PAWS, Food Pantry receive Montana Community Foundation Grants

Representatives of the Montana Community Foundation were in Chinook last week to award grants to the Food Pantry and PAWS. The foundation helps more than 75 Montana communities to create permanent philanthropy and build strong communities. Since the inception of the foundation some 8,000 grants, totaling $18.6 million, have been awarded to participating communities in the state.

This year's local awards were supported by an 'endowment in perpetuity' created by Warren Ross several years ago. Ross, a south county rancher now deceased, set up the endowment to provide annual grant awards to suppor...