Welcome
Grand Rapids Community Foundation leads the community in making positive, sustainable change. Through our grantmaking and leadership initiatives we help foster academic achievement, build economic prosperity, achieve healthy ecosystems, encourage healthy people, support social enrichment, and create vibrant neighborhoods.
Our success is connected to the generosity of our donors and the expertise of our grantee organizations.
Community Philanthropy Building
In late 2007, the Community Foundation purchased the historic "Icehouse" building located at the corner of Oakes Street and Grandville Avenue. Work is underway to transform this vacant space into the Foundation's new home by fall 2008.
Click here to view our Warming the Icehouse Blog and subscribe to the RSS feed for updates!
Foundation Headlines
- New Grants Provide for the Arts, Home Foreclosure Prevention, a Diversity Initiative and More
- Community Foundation Named One of West Michigan's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For
- See the Results of the 2007 Social Venture Investors Funded Programs
Giving in Grand Rapids Podcast
- Giving in Grand Rapids Podcast #10
Each year, teachers and students from Grand Rapids Catholic, Christian and public schools have the opportunity to apply for Excellence in Education grants. This year, 41 teachers and 21 students are winning grants that total $117,500. To hear how these grants are making a difference in our city's classrooms, we talked with a few teachers and students at the annual Excellence in Education award celebration.
Listen | download mp3 - Giving in Grand Rapids Podcast #9
Thomas Czerney, a local professional advisor specializing in wealth management services with Beene Garter, demystifies charitable gift annuities. He explains how a charitable gift annuity works, describes who would benefit from this type of planned gift and walks listeners through an example.
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On the site we are pleased to feature many photographs by William J. Hebert. This includes this page's changing seasonal image. Bill is a well-known and highly acclaimed West Michigan photographer who has taken images that have appeared in many Community Foundation publications. Bill can be reached at 616.456.5083.
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