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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, [...]
  • Support for Students: Scholarships and much more

    Posted on April 29, 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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  • Remembering Rená Guttrich

    Posted on November 07, 2022

    Remembering Rená Guttrich
    With heavy hearts we mourn the loss of Rená Guttrich. The memory of her warmth and light will be cherished deeply by her friends and colleagues. “We will miss her smile, positive attitude and fun [...]
  • Partners in Community, fall 2022

    Posted on September 26, 2022

    Partners in Community, fall 2022
    The third installment in the Centennial Collection of the PARTNERS in community, Grand Rapids Community Foundation's quarterly magazine, focuses on collaboration. Partners are at the core of what we do. We know that we cannot [...]
  • Planning Ahead for Year-End Giving

    Posted on September 24, 2022

    Planning Ahead for Year-End Giving
    As the seasons change and 2023 draws near, you may be searching for a way to help people and organizations in our community through charitable giving. Don’t wait until December to begin your year-end giving [...]
  • Remembering Tom Fox

    Posted on September 07, 2022

    Remembering Tom Fox
    We mourn the loss of Tom Fox, a truly generous philanthropist and enthusiastic friend of Grand Rapids Community Foundation. Alongside his wife Mickie, who survives, Tom had a long partnership with the Community Foundation. He [...]

  • Posted on September 06, 2022

    Community Foundation Celebrates Chaille Award Winners
    Honoring 100 New Philanthropists In its centennial year, Grand Rapids Community Foundation has met a decade-long goal—completing the 100 New Philanthropists cohort of donor partners. The Community Foundation established the effort in 2012. These partners [...]
  • PARTNERS in community, summer 2022

    Posted on July 19, 2022

    PARTNERS in community, summer 2022
    As we near the halfway point of our centennial year, we are eager to share the new issue of PARTNERS in community with you! This second installment in the Centennial Collection of the magazine [...]
  • Meeting (and Exceeding!) a Decade-long Goal

    Posted on May 25, 2022

    Meeting (and Exceeding!) a Decade-long Goal
    100 New Philanthropist partners commit to financial support, community engagement and future giving as the Community Foundation looks to our second century A decade ago, Grand Rapids Community Foundation set out to usher in our [...]
  • PARTNERS in community, spring 2022

    Posted on March 15, 2022

    PARTNERS in community, spring 2022
    Centennial year is here! Grand Rapids Community Foundation is celebrating 100 years of service and impact alongside partners like you. During this year, there will be four specially curated Centennial Collection issues of PARTNERS [...]