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Black and white historic photo of people sledding in Jacksonville, Oregon.

Take a tour of daily life in 1900

Historic Jacksonville Inc is dedicated to preserving local history and making it accessible and relevant to locals and tourists.

High school students wearing winter clothes snowshoeing outdoors on a snowy hill surrounded by trees.

Avista Foundation Grant Helps Youth Program Reach Rural North Idaho Students

The Confluence Project is bringing unique educational opportunities to students in Wallace and Kellogg thanks to support from the Avista Foundation.

Boy wearing a blue backpack as he lines up to get on the school bus, other kids with backpacks are in front of him while the teacher checks off attendance by the bus doors.

Packing to punch out hunger

The Avista Foundation is proud to support ACCESS Powerpack Program, which fills backpacks with weekend nutrition for students who experience food insecurity in Oregon.

Senior woman sitting with another woman at a kitchen table, chatting and drinking coffee.

Pilot Program Enhances Safety for Vulnerable Families

Pilot program provides backup power solutions to people who are medically vulnerable

Multiple decorated Christmas trees with boxes of ornaments for sale at Old World Christmas in Spokane, Washington.

Old World Christmas is Keeping Spirits Bright

For over four decades, Spokane-based Old World Christmas has been creating custom glass-blown ornaments for the holidays.

Bearded man wearing sunglasses and a blue t-shirt, smiles in front of a Freedom Farms Gold Hill, Oregon sign at a farmers market vegetable table.

Freedom Farms also cultivates people

When recently incarcerated people work in the vegetable beds at Freedom Farms they reconnect better with the outside world.