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Basin Youth Inspired and Equipped to Make a Difference
May 15, 2018 • 3 minutes

Basin Youth Inspired and Equipped to Make a Difference

100 youth attend the Basin Youth Network 2018 Leadership Summit (Columbia Basin) – You’ve got the potential to make a real difference. Dare to believe one day you might change […]

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Affordable Housing for Columbia Basin Residents
May 1, 2018 • 3 minutes

Affordable Housing for Columbia Basin Residents

The Trust is working with BC Housing to build 167 new affordable housing units for people in the region struggling to find housing they can afford. “People living in the […]

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Art Goes Public Thanks to New Trust Program
April 24, 2018 • 2 minutes

Art Goes Public Thanks to New Trust Program

Columbia Basin Trust commits $750,000 to help communities increase public art (Columbia Basin) – Communities in the Columbia Basin already benefit from spectacular natural surroundings. Now they have the opportunity […]

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Solar Panels to Power Up in Balfour
April 17, 2018 • 3 minutes

Solar Panels to Power Up in Balfour

Columbia Basin Trust contributes $70,000 to alternative energy project (Columbia Basin) – Recent energy retrofits have made three community buildings in Balfour more energy-efficient, cost-effective and comfortable for users. Now […]

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Let’s do business together!
April 13, 2018 • 1 minute

Let’s do business together!

If you missed our webinar about the Trust’s Request for Expressions of Interest for Basin Business Opportunities, it is available here! If you have a business opportunity that will create […]

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Northern Kootenay Lake Ramps Up Its High-Speed Internet
April 12, 2018 • 4 minutes

Northern Kootenay Lake Ramps Up Its High-Speed Internet

Columbia Basin Trust uses underwater cable to connect rural communities to its broadband network It was a novel approach—looking at a 36-kilometre stretch of northern Kootenay Lake as an opportunity, […]

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Mentors Inspire Youth to be Entrepreneurial
April 9, 2018 • 4 minutes

Mentors Inspire Youth to be Entrepreneurial

Business professionals give back to their community by investing their time in young learners. The Trust has partnered with JA British Columbia (JABC) to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit in local […]

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Taking Action on Climate Change
March 29, 2018 • 4 minutes

Taking Action on Climate Change

Columbia Basin Trust is supporting 12 climate action projects through the first year of its three-year Climate Action Program with $540,000. This support will help several communities in the Columbia […]

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New Affordable Housing Coming to Shuswap Community
March 28, 2018 • 2 minutes

New Affordable Housing Coming to Shuswap Community

For the first time in 30 years, new housing is coming to the Shuswap community. The construction of two new duplexes is nearing completion at the Old Village Site and […]

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Supporting Child Care Capacity in the Basin
March 27, 2018 • 1 minute

Supporting Child Care Capacity in the Basin

In 2017, the Trust launched the Child Care Support Program to help maintain and create child care spaces in the Basin. In the first year, the program distributed $1.2 million […]

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Mentors Inspire Youth
March 27, 2018 • 4 minutes

Mentors Inspire Youth

The Trust has partnered with JA British Columbia (JABC) to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit in local youth and inspire community mentors through Be Entrepreneurial.

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Reducing the Risks and Effects of Wildfire
March 26, 2018 • 5 minutes

Reducing the Risks and Effects of Wildfire

Twenty communities focus on mitigating wildfire with over $800,000 from Columbia Basin Trust (Columbia Basin) – Wildfire can rapidly destroy homes, communities and lives. To brace against this danger—now becoming […]

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