Blue Mountain Community Foundation started in 1984 based on the idea that the area needed a place for donors who cared about the community to make long-term investments.
A group of 36 local citizens, under the guidance of Pete Peery and John Reese, were the initial corporate members that resolved to form a non-profit corporation. Since securing its first endowed fund, the Foundation has grown to over $20 million in 170 charitable funds.
Kari Isaacson will fill the spot left vacant with the July departure of Lawson Knight, who served as head of the nonprofit organization for 11 years. Isaacson,...more
WALLA WALLA — Lawson Knight has submitted his resignation as executive director of Blue Mountain Community Foundation, board member Anne Marie Zell-Schwerin said today. Knight has served as the...more
WALLA WALLA — It might have been the 27th annual discretionary grant giveaway for Blue Mountain Community Foundation, but fresh excitement was in the air at the Marcus Whitman Hotel &...more
To Help. To make a donation or learn more about the Walla Walla Public High Schools Scholarship fund, visit the Blue Mountain Community Foundation website: www.bluemountainf.... For additional...more
For their 50th reunion, the Class of 1962 at Walla Walla High School has established a high school scholarship fund together with Jerry Zahl, his classmates and The Blue Mountain Community Foundation...more
The 10 community foundations sharing $672000 are the Blue Mountain Community Foundation, the Community Foundation of North Central Washington, the Community ...
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By SHEILA HAGAR It was a leaner granting year for Blue Mountain Community Foundation, said executive director Lawson Knight. Even so, the foundation handed ...
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Chief executive of HCT, Dai Powell, shares the experiences and practical lessons he learned along the way when teaming up with Ealing Community Transport to deliver site transport during the Olympic Park construction.