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Seeley Lake Community Foundation highlights rural wins: glass recycling, Change Your Pace and a community needs assessment
Summary
Seeley Lake Community Foundation told City Club attendees how small, relationship-based philanthropy supported local programs: $2 million distributed over 25 years, a $700,000 endowment, a glass-recycling program diverting 50,000+ pounds and a Change Your Pace Challenge nearing $1 million; the foundation plans a public community needs report in 2027.
SEELEY LAKE — Claire Mueller, executive director of the Seeley Lake Community Foundation, laid out how a small rural foundation uses local relationships and matching strategies to move money and build capacity.
"Our first 25 years, the Seeley Lake Community Foundation distributed nearly $2,000,000 into the community while growing our endowment to more than $700,000," Mueller told a City Club of Missoula audience. She…
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