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• Posted on March 01, 2016 – Posted by: Meredith Fennema

  Grand Rapids Community Foundation Awards $213,000 Grant to Engage Citizens in Reaching 40 Percent Tree Canopy Goal

  February 24, 2016, Grand Rapids, Mich.  – In her State of the City address, Mayor Bliss called attention to a citywide goal of achieving 40 percent tree canopy as core to our city’s environmental sustainability [...]

• Posted on March 01, 2016 – Posted by: Timothy White

  What are You Waiting For?

  October 22, 2015. The sun was shining, the fall colors were in full effect and I was driving along a two-lane highway south of Traverse City coming back from an unscheduled afternoon trip and on [...]

• Posted on February 16, 2016 – Posted by: Pamela Cross

  A Plan to Manage your Digital Assets

  Regardless of age, our lives are integrated with digital technology. Whether you use a smart phone and text, or maintain multiple email and social media accounts; conduct online banking, shopping or pay bills—we are connected [...]

• Posted on February 08, 2016 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Being Organized for the Time After Life

  When my father died in September, 2014 I was certain that his affairs were in order—he had an estate plan and since the death of my mother nearly 20 years prior we’d updated his plan [...]

• Posted on February 04, 2016 – Posted by: Marilyn Zack

  Four Easy Ways to Make a Planned Gift

  Planned giving—those two words conjure up images of lawyers, accountants and stacks of legal documents. What many of us don’t realize is just how simple it can be to designate a portion of our estates [...]
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  Posted on February 01, 2016 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Nurture Your Favorite Causes through the Community Foundation

• Posted on January 21, 2016 – Posted by: Meredith Fennema

  Grand Rapids Community Foundation Awards $500,000 to Habitat Kent for Equitable Development on West Side

  January 20, 2016—Grand Rapids Community Foundation today announced a $500,000 grant to Habitat for Humanity of Kent County. The grant will support Habitat Kent’s Building Blocks strategy that focuses on neighborhood revitalization in Grand Rapids’ [...]

• Posted on January 20, 2016 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Helping in Flint

  Philanthropy is about finding long-term solutions to a community's problems, but it is also how we respond in a crisis. We urge you to consider doing something for the people of Flint. Beyond donating water--which [...]

• Posted on January 04, 2016 – Posted by: Laurie Craft

  New Ideas for a New Year!

  Last month, the Community Foundation hosted a Knotty Cocktails event on the housing affordability challenges facing Grand Rapids and many other communities across the country (you can view the 45 minute panel discussion here). The event [...]

• Posted on December 23, 2015 – Posted by: Marilyn Zack

  IRA Rollover News for Community Foundation Donors!

  The IRA Charitable Rollover has been permanently extended! Here's what it means for you: If you're age 70½ or older, you may be able to take advantage of an important incentive for charitable giving.  Congress recently [...]

• Posted on December 16, 2015 – Posted by: Roberta King

  One Hundred New Philanthropists: Scott and Lucy Joswick

  Lucy Dyer Joswick and Scott Joswick have a passion for social justice and a deep-rooted desire to open the doors of philanthropy and show that everyone can be a changemaker. In their living, giving and [...]

• Posted on December 14, 2015 – Posted by: Roberta King

  One Hundred New Philanthropists: Emily and Ben VerWys

  Ben and Emily VerWys, an investment advisor at Action Point Financial and realtor at Keller Williams respectively, are strategic thinkers and connected community members. “When we heard about how the Community Foundation could help us [...]