The Dale Dean Martin “Built Different” Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to celebrate those with the same caring heart and love for community as Dale Martin. A senior at Colville High School, Dale tragically passed away in 2021 after suffering a severe injury during a football game.
Caryn Bothman and her family established the nonprofit, Tough As Nails. A community grant from Innovia made their most recent project possible.
Nuestras Raíces serves the Hispanic community of the Inland Northwest. Their fund at Innovia, the Hispanic Business Professional Association Endowment, is about investing in the organization’s future.
Through the Equinox Foundation Grant Program at Innovia, the Coeur d’Alene-based Human Rights Education Institute (HREI) was awarded $15,000 to host a pilot for its “I AM Program” to support at-risk youth in Bonner County, Idaho.
Generosity has a ripple effect. For students growing up in the rolling hills and close-knit farming communities of Ralston and Rimrock, this has never been clearer. In 2002, Gerald Ray established the David L. and Francis G. Ray Scholarship Fund to honor the memory of his parents and benefit students from his hometown communities.
Tom and Gail Stevenson’s story is one of love for each other, their family and the Spokane community.
This year Nara Shin was awarded the Diversity in Advertising Scholarship from Innovia Foundation, a $5,000 award given to a college student of color studying advertising, marketing, design or computer science.
Innovia Foundation recently awarded $321,726 in scholarships to students throughout Eastern Washington and North Idaho for the 2022-2023 school year. Innovia manages over 30 scholarship programs on behalf of donors who have established funds to help students achieve their higher education goals.
With the stresses that often come from social media and the myriad of other obstacles encountered on the path to high school graduation, the journey becomes even more daunting for a teenage parent. It’s a large part of what motivated Lumen High School Executive Director Shauna Edwards to establish the school for teen parents.
Over half of rural high school graduates in Washington State do not pursue any type of postsecondary education in the year following graduation, greatly reducing future career opportunities. In an effort to change the trajectory and create better outcomes for those graduates, Innovia launched a two-year initiative to strengthen school-community connections in five rural school districts: Dayton, St. John Endicott, Lind-Ritzville, Riverside and Inchelium.
