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  • Partners in Community, winter 2024

    Posted on March 04, 2024

    Partners in Community, winter 2024
    Discover the latest issue of PARTNERS in community! Welcoming LaSandra Gaddy as Grand Rapids Community Foundation's new president and CEO, our winter edition features inspiring stories on wellness investments, insights from Our Mental Health Collective, [...]
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  • Posted on October 11, 2012

    Five Organizations Receive Community Foundation Grants
    This week, Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees approved five grants totaling $350,000. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation was awarded $50,000 towards its construction of a two-story Student Learning Center at the Gerald R. [...]

  • Posted on September 28, 2012

    John and Nancy Kennedy Receive Community Foundation Award
    Community philanthropists John and Nancy Kennedy were awarded the Chaille Community Philanthropy Award from Grand Rapids Community Foundation. The Chaille Community Philanthropy Award is given each year to donors who support the work of the [...]

  • Posted on June 26, 2012

    Slemons Foundation Spends Down
    More Than $4.5 million Grants into Kent County The Slemons Foundation, created in 1965 through the estate of Elmer J. Slemons is officially out of business. On purpose. Slemons, who died that same year at [...]

  • Posted on June 19, 2012

    2012 Scholarships Top $800,000
    In recent years, Grand Rapids Community Foundation has averaged $650,000 in annual scholarship awards, but this year after receiving 1,877 scholarship applications, it has awarded 574 scholarships totaling $844,250. Thirteen Michigan colleges and universities [...]

  • Posted on June 12, 2012

    Five Organizations Receive Community Foundation Grants
    Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees recently approved five major grants totaling $764,500. The largest grant was awarded to Dwelling Place of Grand Rapids to aid in the support of affordable and quality housing [...]

  • Posted on June 06, 2012

    Changing how we think of homelessness
    At Grand Rapids Community Foundation, we work to create a community that has all of the great qualities that West Michigan has—and to make it better. As an optimist, this is a great place to [...]

  • Posted on May 31, 2012

    Grant Brings Summer Jobs to Grand Rapids Youth
    Grand Rapids Community Foundation is helping local youth gain valuable work experience for the second summer in a row with funds from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. A $900,000 grant was provided to the Community Foundation [...]

  • Posted on April 27, 2012

    Get Out There and Hug a Tree Today!
    Arbor Day is the perfect time to stop and take notice of the tremendous value trees have on our community. While the beauty of a tree is evident, only recently has research begun to prove [...]