Publications

• 

  Posted on March 25, 2019 – Posted by:

  PARTNERS in Community, Spring 2019

  The spring issue of Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s magazine, PARTNERS in community, focuses on growth. Below you will find a few links to featured stories, but click here to read the entire magazine! You will [...]
• 

  Posted on December 20, 2018 – Posted by:

  Annual Report 2017-2018

  2017-2018 Annual Report A community is defined by the people who call it home. Our community has the potential to be anything we want it to be. There is potential everywhere in West Michigan—potential that can break [...]
• 

  Posted on December 14, 2018 – Posted by:

  PARTNERS in Community, Winter 2018

  This winter’s PARTNERS in community focuses on legacy. Below you will find a few links to featured articles, but click here to read the entire magazine! You’ll read stories of two leaders making an impact [...]

• Posted on October 11, 2017 – Posted by: Ashley Lee

  Fall 2017 Current

  Our latest issue of Current features recent grants, the story of Helen and Allen Hunting's passion for the Great Lakes, heartwarming notes from scholarship recipients, an inside look at Kick-Off Camp with Challenge Scholars, and [...]

• 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 [...]