2015-11-09T09:10:26-08:00 2015-06-30 Boyle Deveny & Meyer PC 305 South 4th East Suite 200 Missoula MT 59801 990 2014-07-01 810505084 MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE MISS 4065493348 28 OFFICERS ROW FORT MISSOULA RD MISSOULA MT 59804 BECKY HOLDORF Treasurer 2015-11-09 true KAREN NEEL CPA P00338064 4067213555 2014 2016-03-07 17:11:31Z Caroline Patterson Haefle 194491 false false X WWW.MISSOULAWRITINGCOLLABORATIVE.ORG X 1995 MT TEACHING LITERARY COMPETENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING. 8 8 22 100 0 151875 135289 66128 57116 0 2196 762 220199 193167 0 0 172428 110146 0 3025 68729 53774 241157 163920 -20958 29247 21682 49049 4905 3025 16777 46024 TEACHING LITERARY COMPETENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING. false false 145576 57666 The Missoula Writing Collaborative (MWC) has served over 37,000 children since 1994, encouraging them to find their authentic voices as creative writers. MWC teachers are professional writers, people who have made writing their life's 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 teaching in area classrooms, and in 2011 she was named Montana's Poet Laureate. 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. In the course of the 2014-2015, the Missoula Writing Collaborative served children and youth ages 8 to 18 in seventeen schools in Montana. Although we primarily serve Missoula fourth grades, we also have creative 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. 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 2014-2015, completed anthologies and conducted readings for seventeen schools. In addition, students from C.S. Porter, Lowell, and Franklin schools read on Montana Public Radios Pea Green Boat. MWC student poems were published in Mamalode and selected for Signatures, (the state poetry anthology) and the MWC currently posts Monday poems featuring student work on our Facebook page. During the year, students have written everything from Montana sonnets to a letter to a horse from the grass beneath it.National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works:With the support of a 2014 NEA Art Works grant, MWC started the 2014-15 program in fourth and fifth grade classrooms in Arlee, Pablo, St. Ignatius. Writers, students, and teachers were thrilledand the programs received media attention on Montana Public Radio, Char-Koostra News, and the Valley Journal. The student readings at each school were well attended by teachers, parents, and community members. In April 2015, we won a second NEA Art Works grant to fund programs on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Words with Wings:Our summer camp, now in its tenth year, had a successful season. Seventy 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. Students traveled to Fort Missoula via city buses and wrote poems at the Missoula Historical Museum and poems at the native plant garden. Each week, campers read their poems at readings packed with parents, grandparents, and siblings. The final Words with Wings reading (at which they will receive their anthologies) will be held at the Missoula Book Festival in September 2015 at Fact & Fiction. 145576 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 false true 3 0 true 22 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 8 8 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 Vice 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 Kimberly O'Connor Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mary Windecker Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Patsy O'Keefe President 6.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Becky Holdorf Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Kathleen Magone BOARD MEMBER 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Caroline Patterson Haefele Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 14963 0 0 M Meagan McNamer Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 38769 0 0 53732 0 false false false 0 135289 135289 SCHOOL PROGRAMS 611600 46016 46016 SUMMER WRITING CAMPS 611600 11100 11100 57116 0 0 0 0 0 1536 1324 212 1226 0 0 MISC REVENUE & REIMB. 900099 550 550 550 193167 57666 1226 0 0 0 0 33769 30392 3377 0 65389 58850 6539 0 1128 1015 113 9860 8381 1479 0 0 4000 3200 800 0 0 0 3775 3020 755 1687 1530 157 3055 2686 280 89 12 10 1 1 0 5917 5167 507 243 3762 3386 188 188 0 316 316 0 0 416 354 62 2011 1709 302 SUMMER CAMPS 22928 22928 OTHER FUNDRAISING EXPENSES 2504 2504 VISITING ARTISTS 2000 2000 SERVICE CHARGES 641 641 750 632 118 163920 145576 15319 3025 19925 47486 222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2556 1630 1342 926 0 0 0 0 415 415 21682 49049 3025 4905 4905 3025 X 16777 46024 16777 46024 21682 49049 29247 X false false false X 146834 132386 141062 151875 135335 707492 0 0 146834 132386 141062 151875 135335 707492 409585 297907 1332 1332 0 0 708824 235655 0.42030 0.34180 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1236 515 721 1320 1115 205 926 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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