Inland NW links
- Armed Forces & Aerospace Museum
http://www.armedforces-aerospacemus.org/
- Closed for construction; formerly known as the Fairchild Heritage Museum
- Better Business Bureau
http://www.thelocalbbb.com/
- Eastern Washington, North Idaho, Montana
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Spokane
http://www.bbbsspokane.org/
- Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County
http://www.bgcspokanecounty.org/
- Catholic Charities Spokane
http://www.catholiccharitiesspokane.org/
- Cat Tales Zoological Park
http://www.cattales.org/
- "Endangered Species Conservation Park": 10 miles N of Spokane on US2. They have two white tigers named Zeus and Apollo, and an assortment of other large and medium-sized cats. If you go in summer, make sure you catch feeding time, or you'll probably only get to see cats sleeping.
- Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce
http://www.coeurdalenechamber.com/
- Coeur d'Alene Community Page
http://www.coeurdalene.com/
- Coeur d'Alene Downtown Association
http://www.cdadowntown.com/
- Sponsors of Car d'Lane mid-June classic car show, on downtown CDA streets
- Community Voice Mail
http://www.cvm.org/
- Plausible prosperous-sounding free voice mail for the homeless or unemployed or otherwise in transition; begun in Seattle in 1991, now available in cities across the US including Spokane.
- Conservation Northwest
http://www.conservationnw.org/
- Habitat for Humanity Spokane
http://www.habitat-spokane.com/
- Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest
http://www.giin.org/
- Greater Spokane Incorporated
http://www.greaterspokaneinc.com/
- First quarter 2007 the Spokane Area Economic Development Council and the Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce announced they would combine functions under this new identity (see link to Spokane EDC site below). As of 8 Feb 2007 this new site seems to be pretty much a token.
- Historic-Hillyard.com (neighborhood)
http://www.historic-hillyard.com/
- Hutton Settlement
http://www.huttonsettlement.org/
- "A family oriented, residential facility for mentally and physically healthy children who are non-delinquent." Founded 1919; state certified. "Government support is not requested or accepted."
- Inland Northwest Chapter, American Red Cross
http://www.spokaneredcross.org/
- The Inland Northwest Community Access Network (TINCAN)
http://www.tincan.org/
- Inland Northwest freenet. A stock joke during development: "If the grant money doesn't come in soon, it's going to be two tin cans and a string."
- Inland Northwest Land Trust
http://www.inlandnwlandtrust.org/
- Negotiates conservation easements with owners of undeveloped land in Eastern Washington and North Idaho
- Inland Northwest Trails Coalition
http://www.inlandnorthwesttrails.org/
- Kootenai Environmental Alliance
http://www.kealliance.org/
- Lake Spokane Chamber of Commerce
http://www.lakespokane.com/
- Lake Spokane, also known as Long Lake, is the 24-mile-long reservoir between Long Lake Dam and Nine Mile Falls Dam on the Spokane River, downstream from the city.
- Little Spokane Watershed Council
http://www.lsw.org/
- The Little Spokane is a natural-state tributary stream arising near Mount Spokane, which joins the Spokane River northwest of the city, just downstream from Nine Mile Falls.
- NICON freenet
http://www.nicon.org/
- "North Idaho Communities ON-line"
- Northwest Glass Society
http://www.northwestglasssociety.org/
- Professional glass studio for students and artists, gallery
- Salvation Army Spokane
http://www.salvationarmyspokane.org/
- Second Harvest Inland Northwest
http://www.2-harvest.org/
- South Perry (neighborhood)
http://www.southperry.com/
- Spokane Aquifer Joint Board
http://www.spokaneaquifer.org/
- Spokane gets its tap water from a big high-volume gravel aquifer, laid down by the repeated glacial Lake Missoula flooding events of 12,000-15,000 years ago. Most of the aquifer's water that doesn't get drawn off by various wells comes out as springs along the Little Spokane.
- Spokane Area Economic Development Council
http://www.spokaneedc.org/
- First quarter 2007 the EDC and the Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce announced they would combine functions under the name Greater Spokane Incorporated (see link above).
- Spokane Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) http://www.spokanecops.org/
- Neighborhood volunteer police auxiliaries
- Spokane Neighborhood Action Program
http://www.snapwa.org/
- Spokane Symphony
http://www.spokanesymphony.org/
- St. Georges School
http://www.sgs.org/
- K-12 private prep school in North Spokane since 1955
- Terabyte Triangle
http://www.terabytetriangle.com/
- An area of downtown with distributed access to high-speed Internet connections (site requires Flash)
- Volunteers of America of Spokane
http://www.voaspokane.org/
- Including Hope House shelter for single women
- YMCA of the Inland Northwest
http://www.ymcaspokane.org/
- Downtown and new Valley facilities
- YWCA Spokane
http://www.ywca.org/spokane
- Baddlands Cycling Club
http://www.baddlands.org/
- Coeur d'Alene Rowing Association
http://www.cdarowing.org/
- Eastern Washington Orienteering Club
http://www.ewoc.org/
- Fat Tire Trail Riders Club (mountain biking)
http://www.fttrc.org/
- North Idaho Linux Users Group (NILUG)
http://www.nilug.org/
- Spokane Area Rocket Club (SPARC)
http://sparc.rocketclub.org/
- Spokane Astronomical Society
http://www.spokaneastronomical.org/
- Spokane Bicycle Club
http://www.spokanebicycleclub.org/
- Spokane Canoe & Kayak Club
http://www.sckc.ws/
- Spokane Linux Users Group (SLUG)
http://www.spokanelinux.org/
- Meets on third Wednesdays at
David's Pizza in the Gonzaga district.
- Spokane Mountaineers
http://www.spokanemountaineers.org/
- Climbing, backpacking, skiing, cycling, kayaking; since 1915
- Spokane River Rowing Association
http://www.spokanerowing.org/
- Spokane Rocket Velo (bicycle club)
http://www.spokanerocketvelo.com/
- Spokane Valley Girls Softball Association
http://www.svgsa.org/
- Spokane Valley Youth Soccer League
http://www.vysoccer.org/
- Spokane Youth Sports Association
http://www.sysa.org/
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- Community Colleges of Spokane
http://ccs.spokane.cc.wa.us/
- Two campuses: Spokane Falls CC (SFCC, degree prep) and Spokane CC (SCC, vocational).
- Eastern Washington University (Cheney)
http://www.ewu.edu/
- EWU JFK Library
http://www.ewu.edu/x356.xml
- Gonzaga University (Spokane)
http://www.gonzaga.edu/
- Run by the Jesuits; primarily known for its law school and playoffs-level basketball team.
- Foley Center Library (Gonzaga U)
http://www.gonzaga.edu/Academics/Libraries/Foley+Library/
- Sponsored by former House Speaker Tom Foley, and named to honor his parents.
- Institute for Extended Learning
http://ielhp.spokane.cc.wa.us/
- Part of the local community college system; develops training programs for local businesses, including computer training.
- North Idaho College (Coeur d'Alene)
http://www.nic.edu/
- Spokane Intercollegiate Research & Technology Institute
http://www.sirti.org/
- University of Idaho (Moscow & Coeur d'Alene)
http://www.cda.uidaho.edu/
- Washington State University (Pullman & Spokane)
http://www.wsu.edu/
- Whitworth College (Spokane)
http://www.whitworth.edu/
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- Cancer Patient Care
http://www.cancerpatientcare.org/
- Help for low-income families of cancer patients; site is almost unusable on dialup
- Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS)
http://www.chas.org/
- Non-profit clinics, including discounted pharmacy for CHAS-clinic prescriptions; mission "to improve the overall health of the greater Spokane community by expanding the availability of primary health services"
- Deaconess Medical Center
http://www.deaconessmc.org/
- 388 beds
- Empire Health Services
http://www.empirehealth.org/
- Hospital/clinic support services
- Holy Family Hospital
http://www.holy-family.org/
- In north Spokane near Franklin Park Mall; 196 beds (licensed for 272)
- Inland Imaging LLC
http://www.inland-imaging.com/
- Inland Northwest Blood Center
http://www.inbc2.org/
- Collects 30,000 units of donated whole blood annually
- Inland Northwest Health Services
http://www.inhs.info/
- Hospital/clinic support services
- Kootenai Medical Center (Coeur d'Alene ID)
http://kmc.org/
- 218 beds (licensed for 286)
- MSC/Premera Blue Cross (HMO)
http://www.premera.com/
- Primary sponsors of Bloomsday fun run in May
- Panhandle Health District (North Idaho)
http://www2.state.id.us/phd1/
- Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories
http://www.paml.com/
- Rockwood Clinic
http://www.rockwoodclinic.com/
- Sacred Heart Medical Center
http://www.shmc.org/
- The area's largest hospital, 623 beds; helicopter ambulance service operates from the roof.
- Spokane Shriners Hospital
http://www.shrinershq.org/shc/spokane/
- Pediatric orthopedic; 30 beds
- St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute
http://www.st-lukes.org/
- 102 beds
- Valley Hospital & Medical Center
http://www.valleyhospital.org/
- Near I-90 Pines exit 289 in the Spokane Valley; 132 beds
- Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery
http://www.vanessabehan.org/
The hospitals and clinics linked here are mostly located in one district along the foot of the South Hill next to downtown Spokane, with the exception of Holy Family Hospital on the north side, Valley Hospital in the Spokane valley, and Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene. In fact the local bus system runs a "#2 Medical Shuttle" route that cycles between downtown and the bus plaza and the hospitals and clinics in this nearby district.
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