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News & Stories

The Dennis And Phyllis Washington Foundation Doubles Its Support For The National Folk Festival With $200,000 Challenge Grant To Mainstreet Uptown Butte
Excerpt from The Cornerstone, March, 2010
The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation awarded an unprecedented $200,000 challenge grant to support the National Folk Festival returning to Butte...[read full story]
A Great American Festival - Montana Resources, through the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, renews National Folk Festival sponsorship for '09
Excerpt from The Cornerstone, March, 2009
In the Summer of 2008, Butte, Montana hosted its first National Folk Festival with resounding success. The Foundation made a contribution to the Festival in 2008 and has decided to award...[read full story]
2007/2008 Company Giving and Grants by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation and Montana Resources
January, 2009
View the list of company giving and grants to the Butte/Silverbow area in 2007/2008...[read full story]

Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation provides grant to Butte's Orphan Girl Theatre
December 8, 2008
The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation recently awarded Orphan Girl Theatre (OGT), a children’s theatre operating in historic uptown Butte...[read full story]
Montana Resources Employees Receive Harold McGrath Award
October 30, 2008
The Butte-Silverbow Chamber of Commerce presented the 2008 Harold McGrath Award to the Employees of Montana Resources at the Chamber’s annual banquet held at the Civic Center in Butte. The Harold McGrath Award...[read full story]
An integral part of Butte's mining history, memorialized in stone
November, 2008
For Floyd Bossard, the completion of the Miners’ Memorial Wall at Butte’s World Museum of Mining is both a professional and a personal triumph... [read full story]