Fundraisers

Crawford Classic Softball Tournament

The Crawford Classic softball tournament was held at Kalispell Parks and Rec’s Conrad Complex on Woodland Park Dr. on the weekend of June 18^th and 19^th. To honor and memorialize Bobby Crawford, the Crawford Classic Memorial, a charitable softball tournament, started in 2019. Bobby passed away in a work-related accident while in North Dakota. Each year the tournament proceeds are donated to a not for profit in his name, as a way to remember and honor him. Bobby was an avid softball player and outdoors man.

I was contacted last November by the tournament organizers who wanted to let us know that Montana Wounded Warriors would be the beneficiaries of the funds raised at this year’s tournament. They told me our organization exemplifies who Bobby was and this continued his support for our nation’s military and their veterans. After talking to Neiman Wilson, one of the organizers of the event, I was hopeful that this would help Montana Wounded Warriors continue to fund our mission of taking disabled Montana Veterans who served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan on all expense paid hunting and fishing trips. I can tell you I was extremely impressed with how successful their first fundraiser on our behalf turned out.

Their crew, Alli Cox, Carolyn and Mike McLean, Katy Park, and Neiman Wilson, inspired by their love of softball, have made the tournament bigger and better each year. With awesome work and dedication to support our disabled Montana Veterans they helped raise $10,000 for Montana Wounded Warriors. The Board of MTWW would like to thank everyone who supported the tournament in any way for all the hard work and generosity and the organizers of the Crawford Classic would love to see you all there again next year!

Neil Baumann, Vice President, MT Wounded Warriors

9th Annual Cast and Blast 2019

The Flathead Valley Clay Target Club once again had a “fun”draiser fort Montana Wounded Warriors. We would like to thank everyone for continuing to welcome our vets and their families every year. This year we had several vets come up to shoot trap and go fishing on Flathead Lake. As always, everyone had a great time and we would just like to thank the club for their continued support. It is awesome to have an organization like the Clay Target Club who really shows their appreciation to all our wounded vets. A big thank you to Mike Howe of A-Able and Mo Fisch Charters as well for once again giving our vets a fun day on the Flathead Lake.

Donation From Charlo Post 126

Charlo American Legion Post 126 has made a generous donation to Montana Wounded Warriors. The legion presented board member, Neil Baumann, of Montana Wounded Warriors with a check for 1000.00 for the second time in the last few years. Montana Wounded Warriors would like to thank Post 126 and all of its members for their continued support of our program which helps returning Montanan wounded combat veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pictured below (left to right) is Bert Todd, Post Secretary Pat Kelley, Neil Baumann and Post Commander Bob Shaw,

Trout Creek Fundraiser

Montana Wounded Warriors would like to thank Steve Anderson and the Wayside Bar in Trout Creek, MT. They held a great golf scramble at the Riverbend Golf Course in Thompson Falls. After golfing there was a prime rib dinner at The Wayside Inn in Trout Creek and an auction, which combined with the golf outing, raised $2,150 plus an additional $400 donation from Mosher Transportation of Thompson Falls. The scramble and auction were held on July 21, 2018. We would like to thank all the golfers and those that attended the dinner for their generosity. Thanks again!

Jason Baker Team – Missoula Fundraiser 2018

Montana Wounded Warriors would like to thank Jason Baker and Keller Williams Real Estate for their continued support. Jason held a fundraiser providing beer, pizza and music at the Highlander Beer-Missoula Brewing Company. The event raised over $700.00 for our organization and everyone had a great time. Thanks again to Jason and all those who participated in this fun night out.

Fundraiser for MTWW

We want to thank Jason Ballard for his continued support of Montana Wounded Warriors. Jason has thrown a fund raiser for the last several years, which includes heavy metal music and a fun night out. This year’s event in Florence raised over 1400.00, and we just want to let Jason know how much we appreciate his efforts to support our wounded Montana vets. Thanks again Jason!

8th Annual Cast and Blast

Once again Montana Wounded Warriors had an awesome weekend in the Flathead Valley. The Flathead Valley Clay Target Club did another fantastic job with our cookout on Friday night and the trap shooting the rest of the weekend. The club provides a wonderful environment for our wounded vets to be able to relax and enjoy the company of the club members and to get in a lot of time with their shot guns. This year we had another belt buckle winner in the new shooter category. Congratulations to Dustin Anderson.

We also had our annual fishing trip on Flathead Lake with Mike Howe and his guides with Mo Fisch. The fishing was really good this year, with all three of our boats being very successful at landing multiple lake trout. It was an beautiful day to out on Flathead Lake.

Thanks again to all who made this a successful fundraiser.

1st Annual Murph Challenge 2018

Montana Wounded Warriors was the recipient of the first annual Murph Challenge fundraiser sponsored by Fuel Fitness. Our vets are continually blessed by Montanans all over the state, who raise funds for our mission. The Murph Challenge commemorates Lt. Michael Murphy, who was awarded the metal of honor and died in his service to our country October 27th, 2007. We want to thank Danny Nestor who inspired this event.

Annual Clay Target Shoot 2017

The Flathead Clay Target Club in Kalispell once again benefited Montana Wounded Warriors with their 7th annual fundraiser event June 9-11. The club did an outstanding job this year and was able to raise over $3,150 to support all expense paid hunting and fishing trips for wounded veterans who have served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. We had a fantastic turnout with 7 wounded vets and 5 of their spouses joining us. The weekend started off with a barbecue on Friday night followed by the group having some practice rounds shooting at clay targets.

Saturday morning was lively with our vets as well as many others from all over came and competed to see how many clay targets they could shoot. Afterwards we headed to Lakeside and spent the afternoon on Flathead Lake looking for fish. Thank you to Mofisch for providing us with 3 boats. Though there was not a lot of fish caught, a good time was had by all.

Thanks again to the Flathead Clay Target Club. We look forward to doing this again next year.

Raffle Winners August 27, 2016

On August 27, 2016 we had a fundraiser for Montana Wounded Warriors at the Squire Lounge in Billings, Montana. We had live music playing outside on a stage, delicious BBQ provided free with a donation suggested, and a list too long to describe of silent and live auction items. The Squire filled up with 200-300 people to support the event and enjoy all the fun. We had fun raffles going all night that gave away several brand new hunting rifles from Shipton’s Big R. We raffled a total of 8 guns to several lucky winners which includes two of our own wounded warriors, Mike Kuntz and Josh Beckett. Everybody had a great time and we auctioned off a donated steer skull from a MT Wounded Warrior Brandon Olson, that he painted and decorated himself. That skull went in the live auction for $2200 – thank you so much Brandon! The donated AR-15 from Scheels and beautiful hydro-dip donated by Todd Rust was the high dollar item for the night. It sold in the live auction for $4100, WOW! Two of our very own members and very talented taxidermists, John Bennett and Jacob Schenck, donated a shoulder mount to be done by them personally. Those were a hit as well and two happy bidders walked away with some talented work to come. The moment that everyone was waiting for came and we finally drew for the three lucky winners of the $10,000 cash prizes for the raffle tickets. The three winners (pictured below, in order) were:

$5,000 – Jason Werholz
$3,000 – Dawn Clark
$2,000 – Sara Wagner

None of the winners were present, but we were able to contact them and inform them of their new found fortune. It was a long, enjoyable event and a huge success. With all the hard work, and very generous donors, the event raised over $30,000. Thanks again to everyone who helped make this possible!!