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Featured Programs

The Foundation seeks to fund non-profit organizations that help improve the quality of people's lives in the areas of education, health and human services, arts and culture and community service. A few of the organizations the Foundation recently supported are featured here.

Click here to read about the Foundation's areas of focus and some of the programs supported under each focus area.

	The Montana Primary Care Association The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation is beginning its fourth year of partnership with The Montana Primary Care Association (MPCA) to deliver dental screening to low-income children across the state of Montana. Read profile...
	Montana Special Olympics Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities...Read Profile
	Horatio Alger Scholarship Association Named after the 19th century author, Horatio Alger, Jr., The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc. was founded in 1947 to inspire the nation’s youth to continue to strive for the American Dream... Read Full Profile
	Young Life - Washington Family Ranch What began as a vision to inspire young people has become a world-class youth camp. The Washington Family Ranch was donated to Young Life in 1997 by Dennis R. Washington as a facility for its non-denominational youth summer camp ministry. Washington Family Ranch is the largest of Young Life's thirty-two camps worldwide. Each summer over 7,000 teenage campers are welcomed to Washington Family Ranch for a week each will remember for a lifetime...Read Full Profile
	Missoula Children's Theater The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation has been a supporter of The Missoula Children’s Theatre since 1990. The MCT organization includes MCT Community Theatre, local youth programs such as Teen Art Groups, Performing Arts Camps, and Next Step Prep, and an international touring group in addition to its namesake, the Children’s Theatre... Read Full Profile

News for Organizations

01.06.11 - Friends of Arlee School helps fill in where education funds fall short

From The Missoulian - ARLEE - When Billy Fisher stepped up to keep the beat on the new African drum in Arlee Elementary School's music room, he was the envy of his third-grade class....Read the story

12.22.10 - The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation Donates $150,000 to 60 Food Banks, Food Pantries, Rescue Missions and Homeless Shelters

Press Release: In a special holiday donation, the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation distributed $150,000 to 60 food banks, food pantries, rescue missions and homeless shelters across Montana today. ....Read Press Release

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