Missoulian: Group: Montana near bottom of widening philanthropic gap

Missoulian: Group: Montana near bottom of widening philanthropic gap: "HELENA - The philanthropic gap has widened even further between the 10 states with the most private foundation assets and the 10 states with the least, including Montana, a Helena group said Monday.

In 1988, the average total foundation assets in each of the top 10 states was $9.26 billion, compared with an average of $63 million in Montana and the nine other states with the least foundation assets, according to the Big Sky Institute for the Advancement of Nonprofits of Helena.

That amounts to a gap of $9.2 billion."

Local Nonprofits Come Together Tonight at Emerson | Business and the New Economy | New West Network

Local Nonprofits Come Together Tonight at Emerson | Business and the New Economy | New West Network: "There are 5,677 certified 501(c)(3) nonprofits in Montana and nearly 500 in the Gallatin Valley alone. Next week NewWest.Net/Bozeman will begin profiling one non-profit each week. Groups will be randomly selected from our magic hat and subjected to a fixed set of grueling and not-so grueling questions about their organizations’ operations and missions. As Brian Magee, executive director of the Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA) explains, despite a wide array of groups and missions, there is much in common among community nonprofits."