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Without it, he said, IHC “would not be able to fund programs like Museum on Main Street, which brings a Smithsonian exhibit to rural communities free of charge, or Let’s Talk About It, a reading and discussion program that reaches 25 Idaho libraries per year. At a higher level, IHC would not be able to connect Idahoans and provide opportunities to find common ground.”

The funding supports historic preservation and original creative work, too; one of the canceled grants to the IHC would have supported the restoration of a 1919 film, Told in the Hills, the first feature film shot in Idaho, which was made in collaboration with hundreds of members of local bands of the Nez Perce Tribe who participated as actors and creative consultants, according to Kenworthy Performing Arts Center executive director Colin Mannex.

Gives Back is the annual IHC holiday party that normally benefits homeless nonprofits, but this one comes in response to a citywide emergency.

Within days, the house where he lives and has the IHC offices near Sunset Boulevard was just half a block away from an evacuation zone.

Gives Back party will be the seventh hosted by IHC.