The Idaho Community Foundation, ICF, announced the grant recipients from the 2023 Forever East Idaho Fund. The organizations receiving funds are LeGrande Aqua Plunge, Malad Valley Theatre Guild, Samaria Community Foundation, Malad Elementary School, Oneida County Free Library and Oneida Crisis Center. Grant funds for Malad Valley will support operating needs, provide educational materials for the school and library as well as help with capital projects such as repairs and a bathroom upgrade.

ICF has awarded grants to organizations in the Malad Valley for over 20 years. The Idaho Community Foundation is a statewide foundation that helps communities and organizations support important issues. All grant and scholarship funds are generated by well vested donor funds. Grant awards support organizations in Oneida County and the other 43 counties in Idaho. The ICF has provided a safe and well managed avenue for individuals, families, businesses and other nonprofits to establish permanent or temporary charitable funds to help support causes and or organizations they care for deeply. Donors determine whether to donate to the general fund of Forever Idaho, or they can choose to support causes within a specific function such as food banks, or they can support a specific community. For more information about the Idaho Community Foundation or if you, your family or your business wish to support a specific passion in the eastern part of the state or in Oneida County, visit www.idahocf.org or visit with one of the local  grant advisory committee members, Kathy Ray at [email protected] or Molly Beseris, 4CASI Executive Director at [email protected].