{"id":142,"date":"2024-11-13T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T05:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:48:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/?page_id=142","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>The Priest River Community foundation was founded in 2007 with 3 goals\/principles to follow.&nbsp; We would raise money to promote educational excellence, provide community enrichment and work to preserve the history of our town. Over the 19 years that we have been in existence, a majority of the funds raised have been spent on promoting academic excellence.&nbsp; We want children in our community to be able to experience enhanced educational opportunities because they are from our community.&nbsp; We never want to say, &#8220;you can\u2019t do that because\u2026&#8221;. We simply find a way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, the Foundation and our fundraising event, Helping Our Hometown, was envisioned as a one year event to raise a little money for our community.&nbsp; That first year, the Foundation raised nearly $25,000.&nbsp; The Foundation is now entering its 20<sup>th<\/sup> year and has raised more than $900,000 in total and has $250,000 in an endowment fund that will contribute grant funds to the community in perpetuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foundation is a private, 501 C (3) organization, that is solely independent. There are currently 9 board members that are responsible for fund raising, fund oversight and distribution of grant funds to the community.&nbsp; One of the largest grantee organizations in the West Bonner County School District.&nbsp; Over the last 3 years, the Foundation has granted over $70,000 to our local school district to promote educational excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are extremely grateful to those of you that give back to your community by supporting the Priest River Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250428_230001961-1024x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250428_230001961-1024x414.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250428_230001961-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250428_230001961-768x311.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250428_230001961-1536x621.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250428_230001961-2048x828.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Priest River Community foundation was founded in 2007 with 3 goals\/principles to follow.&nbsp; We would raise money to promote educational excellence, provide community enrichment and work to preserve the history of our town. Over the 19 years that we have been in existence, a majority of the funds raised have been spent on promoting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.priestrivercommunityfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}