HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC

Programs

1. Food & nutrition:hrdc's food and nutrition initiatives work to alleviate food insecurity across the gallatin valley and the surrounding areas. Through our gallatin valley, headwaters area, and big sky community food banks, food assistance is provided in the form of emergency food boxes, providing a five to seven-day supply of food. Our kidspack program provides healthy snack packs for the weekend during the school year for children eligible for the free/reduced lunch program. Our summer lunch program provides free nutritionally balanced lunches during the summer months. Our senior grocery program provides monthly supplemental foods to area seniors. Our fork & spoon offers dinner on a pay what you can model 5 days per week. Nutrition is vital for our area's vulnerable senior and child populations, and our services touch 1 in 10 persons throughout the gallatin valley. Nutrition services comprised 24.09% of organizational activities and expenditures and are made possible by funding from: food donations, private donations, fundraising activities, contract income, private grants, and other

   $6,020,313 spentof which $3,651,073 as grants$73,761 earned by the program
   31% of program spending

2. Transportation:hrdc's public transportation initiative, streamline, provides fare free public transit serving the communities of belgrade, bozeman, and livingston. Systems run 7 days per week with 4 routes and offer linkages with skyline (to big sky), commuter routes to belgrade and livingston, and late night service to the greater bozeman area. Streamline is providing close to 200,000 rides annually. Hrdc's paratransit initiative, galavan, serves our senior and disabled residents with a demand-response transportation system to medical and other appointments, providing vital connections for more many area residents. Transportation comprises 15.53% of the organization's activities and expenditures

   $3,881,841 spent$477,935 earned by the program
   20% of program spending

3. Housing:hrdcs housing initiatives work across all levels of housing security, from homelessness to homeownership. Hrdcs housing programs work to ensure that every member of our community can afford to have and preserve place to call home, whether it is in the form of emergency shelter, transitional housing, affordable rentals, rental subsidies, down payment assistance, or home repairs. Hrdc incorporates its community development and strategic planning initiatives into a housing strategy to meet both the needs of the community and our customers through a broad case management and resource navigation approach. Hrdcs housing initiative encompasses the warming center (seasonal shelter), transitional housing programming, affordable housing units, and a homeownership center offering services from homebuyer education to foreclosure prevention. Hrdc's housing initiative comprises 21.20% of all organizational expenditures and operations. Hrdc's housing programs provide: 132 beds of individual and 42 family rooms of year-round emergency shelter, outreach and drop-in services, 60 units of youth and transitional housing, 400 rental assistance vouchers, almost 500 units of affordable housing,…

   $3,541,716 spentof which $353,420 as grants$920,113 earned by the program
   18% of program spending

4. Community development:hrdcs community development initiative provides innovative and creative solutions to identified community needs. Hrdc is a private, not for profit community action organization, community development corporation, and a certified housing development organization. With experience in project and community development ranging from historic preservation to community housing trusts along a housing continuum spanning from homelessness to homeownership, hrdc has completed a total of over $160 million dollars in housing and public facilities development since the early 90s. Hrdc brought the first community housing trust development to the state of montana and has since developed and/or preserved more than 900 homes that montanans can afford across southwest montana. Hrdcs development activities are supported by housing programming and property management services provided through in-house property management. The goal is to build and sustain healthy communities through the construction of housing and community facilities and the development of community programs that educate and support families and individuals. Community development comprised 9.00% of the…

   $2,249,059 spent$279,681 earned by the program
   11% of program spending

5. Early childhood care and education:hrdc's early childhood care and education initiative focuses on and provides for the healthy development of children and the strengthening of families through education, health, nutrition, mental health, and disability services, offering free preschool for children ages 3-5. This is provided in preschool classrooms across bozeman and belgrade, as well as through partnership programming in area school districts with services reaching more than 104 families annually. The early childhood care and education initiative comprised 8.10% of agency activities and is made possible by funding from health and human services (head start), department of agriculture (child and adult care food program), in-kind donations and other funding sources.

   $1,964,761 spentof which $9,908 as grants$47,000 earned by the program
   10% of program spending

6. Energy:hrdcs energy initiative combines emergency assistance, heat bill supplements, and home energy savings measures to offset heating costs for limited income households. Heating costs for older homes, mobile homes, and energy-inefficient apartment rentals can cause a household to face significant energy cost increases during the winter months in montana. Emergency assistance can be in the form of service shut-off prevention and hot water heater or furnace replacement, heat bill supplements are provided to assist households through the winter months, financial assistance is paid directly to the heat vendor. Energy saving measures are conducted for homes of eligible households and create more efficient homes by installing effective insulation and weather-stripping, and testing and tuning combustion appliances for safety and efficiency. We strive to educate homeowners or renters on energy conservation, home health, and safety. Benefits are provided based on the projected savings to investment ratio for the energy retrofit, which must pay for itself within the lifetime of the energy saving measure, this helps families to reduce their overall heating costs in perpetuity. Energy…

   $1,227,032 spentof which $307,651 as grants$111,060 earned by the program
   6% of program spending

7. Senior programs:hrdc's senior programs address quality of life and independence in the home for many of our area seniors. With door-to-door transportation to medical and other appointments, meaningful volunteer opportunities, supplemental foods, assistance in navigating federal healthcare programs, in-home health, behavioral health, personal care, and case management services, we work to provide each and every senior with wrap around services that enable them to remain self-sufficient in their own homes and be engaged with the community they call home. Senior programs comprised 1.71% of total organizational activities and is made possible by funding from: title iii, gallatin/park county, private donations, private grants, corporation for national and community service, and senior medicare patrol.

   $426,349 spent
   2% of program spending

8. Economic development programming:hrdc's economic development programming pairs workforce development and financial literacy to provide a strategic approach to economic stability serving our at-risk youth populations and everyone trying to navigate the high cost of living in our area. Economic development programming comprise 1.54% of our organization's activities and is made possible by funding from: workforce investment act, private donations, montana foster care funds, contracts, private grants, and other funding sources.

   $383,071 spentof which $7,552 as grants$155,918 earned by the program
   2% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,694,142.