Colin Moffatt Snodgrass Youth Hockey Scholarship Endowment Fund
Missoula lost a bright light and enduring spirit on the evening of September 27, 2023. Colin Moffatt Snodgrass was a beloved son, brother nephew, and life partner. He was a best friend to many and a leader and mentor to even more. His contagious energy, smile, and kind heart are deeply missed by all who knew him. Adventure was a necessity and he embraced life every day in his short 33 years. Colin lived his life to the fullest, savoring every minute spent with friends and family. He lifted all who knew him up with his presence.
Colin, aka C-Snod, participated in childhood sports and also enjoyed camping, fishing, and hunting. His best days were spent winning hockey games, running sprints with the soccer team, doing pushups wherever he might be, climbing mountain peaks, and traveling.
Colin led by inspiring others through his hustle, encouraging messages to teammates, and positive energy. He was humble, never seeking the limelight, but you could often find him in the middle of a great play. Colin found pleasure in practice as much as the game itself. He often worked on his stick skills, lifted “rocks” in the wilderness for fun, and shot pucks endlessly in his parents’ basement.
At age eight, Colin started playing organized hockey and helped his team win numerous games, tournaments, and awards. After high school, Colin played for the University of Montana during the 2010-11 season. At the time of his death, Colin was organizing his Glacier Hockey League adult teams in the Cup and Advanced levels for the 2023-2024 season.
The Colin Moffatt Snodgrass Youth Hockey Scholarship was established to honor Colin’s spirit and celebrate young women and men ages 8-18 who have a similar passion for hockey and life. Two scholarships will be awarded annually: a $1,033 travel hockey scholarship and a $330 in-house scholarship.
The scholarship is administered by the Moffatt-Snodgrass-Wilson families in partnership with Glacier Ice Rink, and funds for the scholarship are held in the Colin Moffatt Snodgrass Youth Hockey Scholarship Endowment Fund at the Missoula Community Foundation. Thanks to hundreds of people who donated at the time of Colin’s death, the family was able to endow the majority of these funds and make the scholarships available in perpetuity.
In honor of Colin, friends and teammates do 33 pushups after hockey games, summiting peaks or completing a workout.
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If you would like to make a gift of stock or other non-cash assets, please reach out to the foundation at 406-926-2846. If you would like to donate by check, please make the check payable to ‘Missoula Community Foundation’ with ‘Colin Moffatt Snodgrass Scholarship Endowment’ in the memo line.
Checks can be mailed to:
Missoula Community Foundation
PO Box 8806
Missoula, MT 59807
No Joke Theater Awarded Legacy of Living Art (LoLA) Grant
No Joke Theater, a transformational theater program for individuals in pre-release programs or under court-ordered supervision, as well as members of the recovery community, has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Legacy of Living Art Fund (LoLA) held at the Missoula Community Foundation.
No Joke Theater aims to assist incarcerated and court supervised populations in their recovery and transition to society by engaging them in bold, original, and devised theater productions about current social issues such as substance abuse, addiction, racism, mental illness, family dysfunction and mass incarceration.
These programs offer participants a creative and productive way to communicate some of the issues surrounding addiction and its' consequences. Working with professional and student teaching artists enables them to form bonds with community members that they would normally not encounter. And the process of creating and performing teaches communication skills such as speaking in public, writing in a theatrical format and memorization. Participants also learn patience, listening skills and how to manage chaos under pressure. The final No Joke Theater performance builds confidence and reduces the shame that quietly companions addiction.
The LoLA Fund has awarded over $40,000 in grants since 2020 – supporting programs that use the arts to support healing and encouraging individual artists and organizations to bring their unique talents and visions for healing through the arts to Missoula in new ways.
LoLA funding will support a No Joke Theater production at the University of Montana’s Masquer Theater in the spring or early summer of 2024.