Support NWGF
NeighborWorks Great Falls has long held a place in donors hearts because of its big accomplishments and the difference it has made in our community. Whether your passion is helping to revitalize downtown or to promote homeownership among hard-working residents, NWGF makes it happen.
NeighborWorks Great Falls makes the most of your gift. This year, 138 families become homeowners, because of your support. We loaned over a million dollars to low-income families, leveraging nearly $100,000,000 in first mortgages -- and our default rate is only 1.1%.
The long-term value of our work has been well-documented. Families who are homeowners are more stable and will have assets 12 times larger than a comparable renting family. Their children will be more likely to graduate from high school, avoid teen-age pregnancy and stay out of the criminal justice system. Essentially, homeownership changes a family forever.
NeighborWorks has a new endowment program, "A Place to Call Home." The endowment will help create a savings account that can be used to fill gaps when funding is sparse.Charitable donations will qualify for the Montana endowment income tax credit.
 Make a secure on-line donation to
"A Place To Call Home" Endowment or contact NeighborWorks at
406-761-5861
for more information.
 New "Giving Book"
charitable gift guide released
Great Falls residents have new resource for giving. About three months ago in this space, an appealed to area nonprofits to get their mission statements and program descriptions together and submit them for publication in The Giving Book, a first-of-its-kind clearinghouse of such information in the Great Falls area.
The Giving Book lists 62 area nonprofits, 21 of which have endowments.
An extra feature of the book explains how the Montana Endowment Tax Credit works. You can get a more detailed explanation of that and other types of giving and the range of tax advantages they might offer in the book, or from your adviser.
Copies are available at the NeighborWorks office at 509 1st Ave. S. in Great Falls.
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