At the 2018 Grand Rapids Community Foundation Donor Celebration, Carol Sarosik and Shelley Padnos were awarded with the 2018 Jack Chaille Community Philanthropy Award. Carol and Shelley are transformational leaders. Learn more about this power couple and the impressive impact they have made in West Michigan through this short film. 

They are passionate about a variety of causes from creating an endowed professorship of civil discourse at Grand Valley State University, to serving on the boards of various arts organizations, to advocating for social justice rights. Shelley and Carol are influencing the community for generations to come. We are honored to be partners with them by hosting Our LGBT Fund; a fund which they began and currently focuses on ending LGBTQ youth homelessness. You can learn more about Our LGBT Fund here: https://www.grfoundation.org/c...