2018-10-30T09:26:38-07:00 2018-06-30 810390489 Boyle Deveny & Meyer PC 305 South 4th East Suite 200 Missoula MT 59801 990 2017-07-01 810505084 MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE MISS 4065493348 PO BOX 9237 MISSOULA MT 59807 Caroline Patterson Haefele Executive Dir. 2018-10-30 true REBECCA DETTMANN CPA P01408585 4067213555 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Caroline Patterson Haefele PO Box 9237 Missoula MT 59807 270796 false false X WWW.MISSOULAWRITINGCOLLABORATIVE.ORG X 1995 MT TEACHING LITERARY COMPETENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING. 11 11 31 6 0 187286 217488 49002 47547 0 1676 3788 237964 268823 0 0 170266 170020 0 975 60857 62223 231123 232243 6841 36580 72674 109539 4356 4641 68318 104898 TEACHING LITERARY COMPETENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING. false false 204746 50901 Missoula Writing Collaborative (MWC) teachers are professional writerspeople who have made writing their lifes work. They have written and published many books, poems, stories, essays, and articles, receiving prestigious awards and prizes for their work. MWC Artistic Director, Sheryl Noethe, was honored with a Missoula Cultural Council Achievement Award in 2004 for her area teaching, and in 2011, was named Montanas Poet Laureate. Noethes latest collections, Grey Dog Big Sky (FootHills Publishing, 2013), won the High Plains Award in 2014. MWC Executive Director, Caroline Patterson, was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University and has received fellowships from the Montana Arts Council, the San Francisco Foundation, as well as the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Her story collection, Ballet at the Moose Lodge, was published in 2017, and she as published stories in Montana Noir (2017) and Bright Bones (2018) anthologies.The school year of 2017-2018 was another year of exciting growth for the Missoula Writing Collaborative. In 2017-2018, we received enough support through grants and financial donations to support 12-week writing residencies in every Missoula County Public School fourth grade. We also funded writing residencies for third-grade through high school-aged children, in locations ranging from one-room schoolhouses to large multi-level classrooms throughout western Montana. Since 1994, we have brought creative writing to more than 40,000 children in twenty schools in western Montana.For Fiscal Year 2018, MWC received a $20,000 grant for its work on the reservation and a Grant to complete a Missoula Childrens Poetry Map. This digital map features 500 childrens poems, illustrations and recordings about Missoula destinations and is now housed in the childrens section of the Missoula Public Library.MWC Writing Residencies: In addition to serving nine Missoula public schools, one Missoula middle school and one high school, the tendrils of MWC extend northeast through Ovando, Potomac and Seeley-Swan schools; northwest to Arlee, Pablo, and St. Ignatius schools; and south into Lolo and Florence-Carlton schools. Our writers in residence have taught poetry to nearly 2,000 children in 2017-2018. Our writers completed anthologies and conducted readings for 30 schools in locations ranging from school gymnasiums to the banks of the Blackfeet River (the Seeley Lake High School), the Hanging Art Gallery (the Arlee Elementary), and the Burns Street Bistro (the Lowell School). In addition, students from Washington Middle School and Lewis and Clark read on Montana Public Radios Pea Green Boat. MWC currently posts Monday poems featuring student work on our Facebook page and we completed an overhaul of our website.Reservation Work: With the support of existing and new grantors, MWC was in five schools on the Flathead Reservation, including elementary school classrooms in Arlee, Pablo, St. Ignatius, Dixon, and Ronan. The student readings at each school were well attended by teachers, parents, and community members. We also worked with Ballet Beyond Boundaries to bring international ballet and folk dancers to reservation schools, where student watched dancers, then wrote poetry about the dance. Words with Wings: Our summer camp, which started in 2010, had one of its most successful seasons. Eighty campers ages 8 to 14 wrote ekphrastic poems (poems written in response to art) in collaboration with the Museum of Art & Culture and river poems with the Watershed Education Network. Our week-long teen writing workshop for ages 15 to 17 continued and students wrote music and poetry together. All students performed their work on Montana Public Radios Pea Green Boat. The final Words with Wings reading is held at the Missoula Book Festival. Fiscal Sponsorship: MWC continues to be the fiscal sponsor for Free Verse, a highly effective program where writers teach writing to kids in juvenile detention centers in Montana. Free Verse, in 2017, won a $30,000 grant. Community Workshops: MWC hosted The Writers Room in March, a day when community members could take a workshop from MWC writers in downtown Missoula for a nominal fee. The event featured a lunch with a writer discussing writing techniques and an evening cocktail hour at Radius Gallery. 204746 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 3 0 true 31 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 11 11 false false false false false false false true true false false true true false true false false true false false X Caroline Patterson Haefele 4065493348 28 OFFICERS ROW FORT MISSOULA RD MISSOULA MT 59804 Leland Buck President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Lois Welch BOARD MEMBER 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Rose Dickson Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Cynthia Manning Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Barbara Sims Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Julie Gardner Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kimberly O'Connor Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 CRISTA ANDERSON BOARD MEMBER 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DAVID CATES BOARD MEMBER 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Patsy O'Keefe Vice President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Rebecca Dettmann Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Caroline Patterson Haefele Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 38746 0 0 38746 0 false false false 0 63205 154283 217488 SCHOOL PROGRAMS 611600 33551 33551 SUMMER WRITING CAMPS 611600 13996 13996 47547 0 0 0 0 0 2407 1973 434 434 0 0 ADMIN FEE INCOME 611600 3354 3354 3354 268823 50901 434 0 0 0 0 39691 35722 3969 0 119323 107726 11597 0 0 11006 9355 1651 0 0 6128 4902 1226 0 0 0 15795 12636 3159 5825 4618 1207 9115 7291 1730 94 119 107 6 6 0 6153 5425 458 270 9939 8945 497 497 0 1033 1033 0 0 189 161 28 2009 1708 301 DUES, FEES & SUBSCRIPTIONS 4582 4003 579 WORK COMP 1140 1026 114 DONOR CULTIVATION 108 108 CONTINUING EDUCATION 88 88 0 232243 204746 26522 975 71711 108765 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1955 1596 548 359 0 0 0 0 415 415 72674 109539 4356 4641 4356 4641 X 68318 62520 42378 68318 104898 72674 109539 36580 X false false false X 151875 135289 171249 187286 217488 863187 0 0 151875 135289 171249 187286 217488 863187 352196 510991 0 0 0 863187 264118 0.59200 0.56070 X 1236 515 721 719 1081 -362 359 Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process A COPY OF THE FORM 990 IS MADE AVAILABLE TO BOARD MEMBERS Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts BOARD MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES ARE AWARE OF THE ORGANIZATION'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY. 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