Troxell Fund, Inc. Donates Record Gift to The Bridge

BOISE, Idaho (17 May 2007)— On Monday, May 21, 2007 at 2 p.m., The Bridge will receive a check for $500,000 from Barbara Troxell and the Troxell Fund, Inc. This donation will be used to purchase homes for a residential foster care program designed to house children and sibling groups entering foster care.

“The Bridge’s residential program is unique. We will enable licensed foster parents to live rent free for up to three years in the Bridge Homes in exchange for caring for children and sibling groups. Mrs. Troxell and her Foundation’s generosity will have an immediate, positive impact on children entering foster care. We’re achieving a critical program milestone two years earlier than anticipated,” said Megan Crouch, Program Director of The Bridge.

“The Troxell Fund is excited to help establish homes in Boise where children who have to be removed from their own homes on short notice can live with a family until they’re placed in either long-term foster care or returned to a family member. We support the goal of The Bridge to not have to move these children before a long-term foster care placement is found, “ said Ann Troxell Murdoch, President of The Troxell Fund.

“May is also National Foster Care Appreciation Month. This generous donation is testament to the very important work that Foster Parents throughout the Treasure Valley are doing day in and day out,” said Crouch.

About The Bridge
The Bridge is a program of the Children’s Home Society of Idaho, a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization formed to ensure Idaho’s children in foster care find loving, lasting families matched to their backgrounds and needs. The Bridge’s main goal is to educate, recruit and retain foster families, and unite them with the resources of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, the Children’s Home Society of Idaho and Warm Springs Counseling Center. For more information, contact The Bridge, c/o The Children’s Home Society of Idaho, 740 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, ID 83712, call (208) 343-7813, or visit our website at www.fosteridaho.com.

History of the Troxell Fund, Inc.
The Troxell Fund, Inc. is a private, family foundation created in 1990 by Robert I. Troxell, one of the founders of the law firm of Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley, which has offices in Boise, Pocatello and Ketchum as well as Reno. The foundation’s primary emphasis has been to support programs aimed at helping at-risk children. It has been managed since Robert I. Troxell’s death in 1998 by his widow, Barbara Troxell, his daughter, Ann Troxell Murdoch, and his son-in-law, Steve Murdoch.

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