Business briefs; Dollar General gives grant to Carson City’s Eagle Valley

Dollar General gives grant to local school

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded Eagle Valley Middle School in Carson City a $1,000 grant to support its e-books program.

The grant is part of more than $4 million awarded to approximately 870 schools, nonprofits and organizations across the 43 states in which Dollar General operates. Since its start in 1993, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded more than $100 million in grants to nonprofit organizations, helping more than six million individuals take their first steps toward literacy or continued education.

A complete list of grant recipients is at www.dgliteracy.org. Grant applications for adult, family, summer and youth literacy grants will be available in January 2016.