The spring/summer issue of PARTNERS in community, a magazine by Grand Rapids Community Foundation, is here for you to read and enjoy! Our "How We Give" series continues with donor partner and Metz Legacy Society [...]
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Partners in Community, spring/summer 2024 -
Support for Students: Scholarships and much more As a community foundation, we strive for a vibrant community where all people can apply their talents and creativity to fuel our future. We believe education is a key that unlocks these possibilities. In recent [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Following an initial gift of $1M by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in the late 80’s, the Grand Rapids Community Foundation created the Youth Field of Interest Fund in 1994 and used it encourage high [...]
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An annual education awards celebration hosted by Grand Rapids Community Foundation will take place on Wednesday May 2 from 5:30-7:30pm at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. The ceremony honors local teachers, students, principals and [...]
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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 [...]
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My dad was an editor extraordinaire. He was a valued employee at The Detroit News for more than 45 years starting as a carrier and climbing the ladder to become the highly regarded Sports Editor [...]
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This week, The Nonprofit Times (NPT), a national publication, named Grand Rapids Community Foundation one of its top 50 Best Nonprofits to Work For in 2012. The Community Foundation ranked sixth on the list. For [...]
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We were deeply saddened to learn of John Arnold's passing over the weekend. He was truly a visionary leader in his work to end hunger in West Michigan and he undoubtedly leaves our community a [...]
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Recently, Grand Rapids Community Foundation received a Full Partner Designation from Partners for a Racism-Free Community. For this designation, the Community Foundation had to demonstrate that it met six standards that contribute to a racism-free [...]
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Provocateur: a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator. OR, according to the Sieger definition, is it a person who causes one to step out of their zone and look at the [...]
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In honor of Black History Month, the Gerald R. Ford Museum, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and Grand Rapids Community Foundation are premiering the film “Black and Blue” in Grand Rapids, Ford’s hometown, on February [...]