Publications

• Posted on July 03, 2017 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Our Magazine, Current

  Read about our recent grants, two of our One Hundred New Philanthropists, and our adaptive strategy.Current Summer 2017 Edition

• Posted on March 16, 2017 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Spring 2017 Current

  The spring issue of Current with new philanthropists, a great story about Linda and Jim Payne's CGA, our grant to make new greenspace in the City of Grand Rapids and more. Click for the PDF.Spring [...]

• Posted on March 06, 2017 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Current Special Edition, Planned Giving 2017

  2017 Special Edition Planned Giving

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

  Grand Rapids Community Foundation Awards over $1 Million in Scholarship Awards for Third Consecutive Year

  June 14, 2016 - Grand Rapids Community Foundation awards 630 scholarships to deserving students. This year’s awards totaled the foundation’s largest sum yet of $1,148,150. “We are pleased to be able to award over $1 million [...]

• 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 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 December 10, 2015 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Our LGBT Fund Awards Grant to Arbor Circle and The Network for New Collaborative Program

  Our LGBT Fund at Grand Rapids Community Foundation recently awarded its first grant—$20,000—to a new collaborative project between Arbor Circle and the Lesbian Gay Community Network of Western Michigan (The Network) for a program that [...]

• Posted on December 07, 2015 – Posted by: Roberta King

  $300,000 Grant to Expand Runaway and Homeless Youth Services in West Michigan

  Grand Rapids Community Foundation today announced a $300,000 grant to Arbor Circle to expand outreach, interventions, and services for runaway and homeless youth. The grant made possible by Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Fund for Community [...]

• Posted on October 23, 2015 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Armen Oumedian Receives Philanthropy Award

  On Friday, October 23, 2015 Grand Rapids Community Foundation will have its annual donor celebration and present the Jack Chaille Community Philanthropy Award to Armen Oumedian, retired senior Vice President of Rapistan. Oumedian and his late [...]

• Posted on July 31, 2015 – Posted by: Roberta King

  Dr. Jack and Katy Lukens Fund at Community Foundation Grows by $2 million

  July 30, 2015—Celebrated across the country for its charitable spirit and known for its growing medical/healthcare community, Grand Rapids provides unparalleled amenities and services to residents across the region in part through the generous contributions [...]

• Posted on July 20, 2015 – Posted by: Roberta King

  $100,000 Grant to Indian Trails Camp for Kate Pew Wolters Center

  Indian Trails Camp is known for providing individuals with disabilities an enriched life through recreation, advocacy and meaningful relationships. Unfortunately, when rain falls at Indian Trails Camp, the spirits of campers fall as well.  A $100,00 [...]

• Posted on July 08, 2015 – Posted by: Meredith Fennema

  $52,000 Grant To Support Mentoring and Employment Program for Incarcerated Women

  Grand Rapids Community Foundation today announced a $52,000 grant to the Women’s Resource Center (WRC).  The grant will support WRC’s New Beginnings program; a service that provides incarcerated women at Kent County Jail with gender-responsive [...]