2007 to 2008: $33,000

• Treasure Valley Family YMCA: $6,000 to promote interest in rock climbing and mountaineering for Treasure Valley youth
• Boise State University Music Department: $5,000 to provide scholarships for promising junior and high school students to attend the 2008 Summer Chamber Music Camp
• Boise State University Art Department: $5,000 for the Brian Patrick Meier Photography Scholarship, for an upper division or graduate photography major who has demonstrated outstanding photography promise and academic merit.
• Boise Philharmonic: $5,000 to facilitate greater access to symphony music by supporting their outreach efforts to children
• Opera Idaho, Inc.: $1,500 to facilitate greater access to opera by supporting their outreach efforts to children
• Meridian Optimist Club: $1,000 to assist underprivileged students in joining the Club’s Youth Rifle Program and assist the Club in sponsoring a distinguished rifle member to compete at a regional or national rifle competition
• Boise School District: $2,500 to assist underprivileged, Boise elementary and middle/junior high school students to rent music instruments
• Rural School Districts (Cambridge, Council, Glenns Ferry, Gooding, Grangeville, Melba, Weiser): awarded $1,000 each to purchase needed musical instruments for underprivileged elementary and/or middle-intermediate students