Making a Gift to the Named Fund for the Community Good
The greater Grand Rapids area is developing quickly, with dramatic changes throughout the community and the surrounding vicinity. A diverse variety of people and businesses are entering (and sometimes leaving) the community creating new opportunities and challenges. The community's economic, educational, health and social needs are constantly shifting. Addressing these issues becomes more challenging as the population grows.
With change and transition, what is a concern of today may not be an issue in the future. Through a conscientious effort and hard work issues of today like homelessness, AIDS, illiteracy may become like polio tomorrow - nearly obsolete.
Grand Rapids Community Foundation is able to help philanthropists meet the ever-changing needs of our community with a gift to the Fund for Community Good, an unrestricted permanent endowment. An unrestricted gift or fund accommodates societal and community changes and allows the donor to support a broad range of present and emerging needs.
Community needs are difficult to anticipate many years in advance; but with an unrestricted fund, Foundation staff can assess community needs and make grants to nonprofit organizations that engage in the most essential work. The flexibility of an unrestricted fund empowers the Community Foundation to support long-term solutions to problems facing education, human services, health, cultural and the ecological frameworks of our community.
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