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  • 2023-2024 Annual Report

    Posted on November 08, 2024

    2023-2024 Annual Report
    In a pivotal year, Grand Rapids Community Foundation awarded $16,078,689 in grants to nonprofit partners and scholarships to students. The organization's total assets were stewarded to $448,331,707. Other results and stories from partners are highlighted [...]
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  • Three Ways to Quickstart Your Will or Estate Plan

    Posted on April 23, 2019

    Three Ways to Quickstart Your Will or Estate Plan
    Planning what will happen to your assets after your lifetime is important. Getting started is the hardest part. Here are three easy steps to help you get started on your plans today: Get organized. Create [...]
  • Summer Camp Q & A with Ruth Bishop

    Posted on April 15, 2019

    Summer Camp Q & A with Ruth Bishop
    For over a decade, 3,500 local campers have had the opportunity to attend summer camps each year through Access Camp grants. These grants provide funding to local camps so that they can offer scholarships to [...]
  • PARTNERS in Community, Spring 2019

    Posted on March 25, 2019

    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 [...]
  • Growing a Dream: Challenge Scholars Dream Fund

    Posted on February 27, 2019

    Growing a Dream: Challenge Scholars Dream Fund
    What’s in a dream? A dream is like a seed of something beautiful. Something necessary and beneficial. But it needs the right conditions to grow. It needs to germinate by means of fertile soil, adequate [...]
  • A Legacy of Family Giving

    Posted on January 29, 2019

    A Legacy of Family Giving
    How do you wish your life to be remembered? What legacy do you want to leave? These are the questions answered with effective estate planning. Generations of people have built our community’s endowment through planned [...]
  • Hopes and Dreams for 2019

    Posted on December 29, 2018

    Hopes and Dreams for 2019
    What are you most proud of in 2018? What are you striving for or working toward in 2019? The end of the year is a time for reflection, but also for dreaming and hoping. Here [...]
  • Four Tax Friendly Charitable Giving Strategies

    Posted on December 21, 2018

    Four Tax Friendly Charitable Giving Strategies
    Recent changes to the tax law have people wondering if they should change their charitable giving strategies. While the law is changing how charitable giving is deducted for some individuals, there are several beneficial giving [...]
  • Annual Report 2017-2018

    Posted on December 20, 2018

    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 [...]
  • PARTNERS in Community, Winter 2018

    Posted on December 14, 2018

    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 [...]
  • Youth in Philanthropy

    Posted on December 04, 2018

    Youth in Philanthropy
    This past October, Rob Collier, former president of the Council for Michigan Foundations, invited me to be a closing plenary speaker for the CMF Annual Conference. The featured speaker for the event was Frans Johansson, [...]
  • Why I Give: A Conversation with Jenine Torres

    Posted on November 20, 2018

    Why I Give: A Conversation with Jenine Torres
    For nearly a century, Grand Rapids Community Foundation has been in the business of understanding our community’s needs. Sometimes, as a development officer, I wonder how our founders could even comprehend the impact this organization [...]