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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 February 15, 2011

    Impact, grants and the future!
    The Philanthropy Roundtable recently asked philanthropic leaders from around the country two questions: "What is the single most daring, audacious and successful grant of the past 100 years?" and "What grant will people be talking [...]

  • Posted on January 24, 2011

    New Faces on Committees
    Grand Rapids Community Foundation recently added several community members to two of its committees. Joining the Audit Committee is Dori Danko, assistant director of, and accounting instructor at School of Accounting, Seidman School of [...]

  • Posted on December 20, 2010

    IRA Rollover Returns
    Foundation, nonprofit leaders and donors in Michigan and throughout the nation are applauding President Obama’s signing of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010, which includes a reinstatement of [...]

  • Posted on December 15, 2010

    Laurie Beard Elected Trustee, New Chair Named
    Grand Rapids Community Foundation is pleased to announced that Laurie Beard will begin a three year team as Trustee starting in 2011. Also Carol Karr, attorney with Miller Johnson will chair the Board and [...]

  • Posted on December 14, 2010

    Foundation Awards $850K in Grants
    The Board of Trustees of Grand Rapids Community Foundation recently approved $850,000 in grants--the largest--$350,000 going to Grand Valley State University’s Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership. The grant will help [...]

  • Posted on November 18, 2010

    Good Schools Students Celebrate
    Three Grand Rapids elementary schools received $91,000 in grants from the Meijer Good Schools for Grand Rapids Program, which recognizes area elementary schools demonstrating measurable success. The Meijer Good Schools for Grand Rapids Program [...]

  • Posted on November 15, 2010

    Celebrating Community Philanthropy!
    This is National Community Foundations Week and instead of writing a piece on this, I thought it best to post a blog entry from my colleague Judy Sjostedt who is the executive director of the [...]

  • Posted on November 11, 2010

    Area Elementary Schools Honored as Meijer Good Schools
    Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Meijer Recognize Successful Area Schools with Cash Award Three Grand Rapids elementary schools received $91,000 in grants from the Meijer Good Schools for Grand Rapids Program, which recognizes area elementary [...]