Three Columbia County organizations have been awarded thousands of dollars in grants from the Innovia Foundation, which distributes dollars for community-enhancement projects in eastern Washington and north Idaho.
Friends of the Dayton Community Pool will get $13,000 to help provide area youth swimming lessons, the group said on Facebook.
A $10,000 grant will go to the Columbia County Rural Library District to remodel the Dayton Memorial Library’s juvenile nonfiction section, according to the foundation website. Library director Ellen Brigham said in an email that the project will make the section “more accessible and welcoming to our younger readers.”
And Project Timothy, a Christian service center in Dayton that supports financially vulnerable community members, will get $7,000, the foundation website states.
The funds are available through the foundation's 2025 Community Grants Program, which supports “education and youth development, health and well-being, arts and culture, economic opportunity and improved quality of life,” the websites states.
The three organizations are among 113 receiving a total of more than $1.2 million this year, the website states.
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