Funded Organizations & Projects

Since December 1999 the Icicle Fund has awarded over $23,000,000 in grants for operating support, program, capital and capacity building. Click on highlighted names to learn more about recent recipients of Icicle Fund Support.

Barn Beach Trust

At the Barn Beach Reserve, educational programming and stewardship activities celebrate, promote and conserve the environmental, artistic and cultural heritage of the Wenatchee Valley. On any given day, one might find visitors touring the museum, a workshop of artists and a class of 5th graders out on snowshoes measuring snow depths or identifying wild animal tracks. Along with operating support, the Icicle Fund has remodeled the 100 year old building on the property and constructed a new classroom/auditorium called "The Barn."
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Chelan-Douglas Land Trust

Operating, capital and program support from the Icicle Fund has helped the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust protect over 1,800 in the Wenatchee Foothills and the White River, complete a successful endowment campaign, develop a trails project and upgrade office software and hardware.
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Icicle Creek Music Center

The Icicle Creek Music Center receives operating and project support from the Icicle Fund. Among its many offerings are concerts, a youth symphony, the month-long Chamber Music Festival and Institute, a piano festival, lessons and the resident Icicle Creek Piano Trio.
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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy’s North Central Washington project centers on Moses Coulee and the Beezley Hills. Icicle Fund operating and capital support has enabled TNC to establish a research station in Moses Coulee, undertake the long-term restoration of this valuable shrub steppe habitat and protect over 3200 acres.
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Trust for Public Land

The Trust for Public Land, with the Nature Conservancy and the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust has recently completed a joint conservation strategic plan for North Central Washington, which will guide the organizations’ work in this area through 2011. Icicle Fund operating, capital and program support has assisted TPL in protecting close to 20,000 acres of land with high conservation values, completing the Wenatchee Watershed Vision: Ideas for Sustaining and Enhancing a Balanced Landscape and establishing a North Central Washington office in Wenatchee.
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Chumstick Wildfire Stewardship Coalition
Columbia Chorale
Community Cultural Center of Tonasket
Community Farm Connection
Confluence Gallery & Arts Center
Icicle Creek Theater Festival
Initiative for Rural Innovation and Stewardship
Leavenworth Summer Theater
Upper Valley Connection
Wild Fires
Wild Fish Conservancy

Community Farm Connection
The Icicle Fund has provided start-up and operating support to the Community Farm Connection, which is becoming a nexus for work and energy around many existing family farms, brand-new farming operations, artisan food producers and emerging businesses. Through its CSA program and Farmhouse Table store, it provides consumers with local food and nutrition information, and current news about sustainable farming and reducing our carbon footprint.
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- Community Foundation of North Central Washington
- Confluence Gallery & Arts Center
- Icicle Arts
- Icicle Creek Theater Festival
  
  In 2007, the first annual Icicle Creek Theater Festival culminated when 19 theater-artists-in-residence collaborated to present to the public staged readings of two new plays. Chosen from over 100 new plays, “Atomic Farmgirl” and “Dov and Ali” subsequently went into production on New York and London stages. Playwrights, directors and actors alike enjoyed the unique opportunity to live and work together for a full week in a beautiful setting and with first-rate material. The Icicle Fund is supporting the development of this playwrights’ workshop.
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- Initiative for Rural Innovation and Stewardship
- Leavenworth Summer Theater
  
  The Icicle Fund has supported the well-established and successful Leavenworth Summer Theater with operating, project and capital support. Each summer LST stages three classical musicals outdoors and under the stars, providing professional theater in beautiful settings for visitors and residents alike.
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- Upper Valley Connection
  
  The Upper Valley Connection offers the one-week Icicle Players Theater Camp each year to developmentally disabled adults and young people. With a host community volunteers on hand, the Icicle Players have staged productions of Peter Pan and will soon offer The Wizard of Oz. Program support from the Icicle Fund is also assisting the Upper Valley Connection in its plan to build the camp into a one-week, stay-over camp for developmentally disabled thespians from across the state.
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- Wild Fires
  
  This photography project is documenting changes in the forest ecosystem over 20 years following major wild fires that occurred in this region in 1994. The project will culminate in 2014 with a traveling exhibit to raise public awareness of the complexity of fire and its effects on ecosystems. The Icicle Fund has provided support specifically for photographing the wildlife in the burned areas.
- Wild Fish Conservancy
  
  The Icicle Fund is providing support for a ten-year study of ecological recovery and recolonization in Icicle Creek, a fifth-order catchment in the Wenatchee River Basin, following the removal of barriers to the passage of fish into nearly 29 miles of near-pristine mainstream and tributary habitat. In addition to their research activities, Wild Fish Conservancy staff has been conducting community outreach programs in conjunction with the Barn Beach Reserve and other local entities.
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