Two funds in the Idaho Community Foundation — the Bonner County Endowment Fund for Human Rights and the Bonner County Fund for Arts Enhancement — have awarded $44,502 to local nonprofits.

The Bonner County Endowment Fund for Human Rights is for organizations whose activities reflect commitment to the ideal that everyone is equal under state and federal laws and constitution regardless of race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability. It distributed $18,002 to eight nonprofits. Recipients are:

- Bonner County Partners in Care Clinic, Inc. — $4300 to pay the master’s level mental health clinicians and the crisis line director to answer the after-hours crisis line.

- Human Rights Education Institute, Inc. — $630 to develop, plan and implement a highly motivating Teen Human Rights Symposium, focusing on key human rights issues.

- Lake Pend Oreille School District — $2500 to support all aspects of the Sandpoint High School Model United Nations program.

- Panida Theater Committee — $2000 to present four films free for the public to attend that highlight a human rights concern and to educate/inform on the issue.

- Pend Oreille Arts Council, Inc. — $2000 to present a live performance, “Living Voices — Klondike, The Last Adventure”; fund the 13th annual Art for Human Rights gallery show; and produce a locally produced, environmentally themed play called “Walden” (based on Thoreau’s “Walden”).

- Sandpoint Community Resource Center — $1000 to pay for supplies necessary for the 2017 annual Spring Symposium.

- Sandpoint High School — $4572 to train the 50 new 2017-18 Sandpoint High school mentors and purchase supplemental materials to prepare them for their role.

- Sandpoint Waldorf School — $1000 to show the documentary “Screenagers” to the community and to facilitate a discussion.

The Bonner County Fund for Arts Enhancement is for projects that demonstrate how the arts encourage creative and critical thinking, stimulate economic vitality and enhance the quality of life in a community. It distributed $26,500 to seven nonprofits. Recipients are:

- Academy of Northwest Writers and Publishers — $5,000 to pay the honorarium for the Montana Shakespeare in the Parks actors, as well as an honorarium to support a performance of the nonprofit Music Conservatory of Sandpoint’s theater students, who will provide the opening act this year.

- Arts Alliance, Inc. — $500 to expand scholarships for local youth to attend Creative Hands Expand the Mind art education classes and to support the Imagine Special Needs art class.

- Carousel of Smiles — $2,500 to encourage Bonner County artists to participate in a collaborative project creating 28 unique art scenes on the panels of a classic Golden Age Carousel which will be located in Sandpoint.

- City of Sandpoint — $2,500 to help purchase a significant piece of public artwork for permanent installation in downtown Sandpoint.

- Festival at Sandpoint, Inc. — $9,000 to support The Festival at Sandpoint’s educational mission including the 5th-grade outreach program, Instrument Assistance Program, Youth Strings Orchestra, Family Concert at The Festival at Sandpoint, community orchestra and scholarships.

- Music Conservatory of Sandpoint, Inc. — $2,000 to expand the Music Matters! after-school outreach and summer camps to accommodate 200 local students into four ensemble groups (orchestra and choir), one children’s opera and musical theater.

- Pend Oreille Arts Council, Inc. — $5,000 to help fund the Ovations performing arts and educational outreach program.