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Up Close - Up Close - October 25, 2012
Kalispels' gifts are spread wide
Tribe's charitable donations nearing $1 million this year, up from $700,000 in 2011

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

Curt Holmes says the Kalispel Charitable Fund supports about 200 nonprofits, including the YMCA of the Inland Northwest.
Curt Holmes says the Kalispel Charitable Fund supports about 200 nonprofits, including the YMCA of the Inland Northwest.
—Staff photo by Treva Lind
After hearing about a number of concussions among youth football players in Cusick, Wash., the Kalispel Tribe of Indians recently put $14,000 toward buying new helmets and shoulder pads for the school district's athletes.

The relatively small gift is one of a total of nearly $1million in community donations expected to be made this year by the Kalispel Charitable Fund, which supports nonprofit programs in Spokane and Pend Oreille counties, says Curt Holmes, director of public and g...


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