2025-10-31T12:38:29-07:00 2024-12-31 463057681 Amatics CPA Group 45 Discovery Drive Bozeman MT 59718 990 2024-01-01 262075145 FORWARD MT FOUNDATION FORW 4065428683 PO BOX 2817 MISSOULA MT 59806 ALICE BOYER Executive Dir. 2025-10-31 true true MORGAN SCARR P00747394 4064041925 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z ALICE BOYER 2615787 false X FORWARDMONTANAFOUNDATION.ORG X 2008 MT EDUCATE, ENGAGE AND ORGANIZE YOUNG MONTANANS TO SHAPE THEIR DEMOCRACY TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF FELLOW MONTANANS. 9 9 59 86 0 1726191 2583014 0 856 5784 8426 26989 1735473 2615787 649408 403250 0 288815 699626 0 110995 120360 664091 1058583 1766967 676890 848820 1808242 3028812 87363 459113 1720879 2569699 EDUCATE, ENGAGE AND ORGANIZE YOUNG MONTANANS TO SHAPE THEIR DEMOCRACY TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF FELLOW MONTANANS. false false 1275675 302500 VOTER REGISTRATION AND MOBILIZATIONForward Montana Foundation registered 8,022 voters, through in-person and online tactics. You could reliably find our staff and volunteers with clipboards in hand registering Montanans to vote at farmers markets, campuses, concerts, and state-wide events. We also knocked on 5,359 doors in a door-to-door voter registration canvass.We held voter registration drives on 20 high school campuses and over 13 college campuses across the state, including public, private, and tribal colleges. Forward Montana Foundation also collected 5,767 pledges-to-vote, and followed up with those voters via text ahead of the primary and general elections. Forward Montana Foundation high school fellows made 7,533 calls to our state's youngest voters. 104956 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTIn 2024, we graduated 17 community organizing fellows and 20 high school fellows from across the state. Fellows go through a robust curriculum that provides weekly training on community organizing and civic engagement. Fellows lead on a final project that connects their interests to meaningful change in their communities. 100750 100750 STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACYFoward Montana Foundation launched Civics Unders The Big Sky, an effort to provide Montana communities with trustworthy civic information, approachable educational resources, and unbiased voter registration to give a voice to the future workers and citizens of our democracy. 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