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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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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 [...]
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Grand Rapids Community Foundation announced today that it has exceeded the $32 million goal for its innovative Challenge Scholars program by raising $33.6 million toward the first phase of building the scholarship endowment. The public [...]
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Paul Keep was recently elected Chair of Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees. The incoming Vice Chair is Laurie Finney Beard. Keep has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2010 and [...]
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Our LGBT (lesbian, gay biexual, transgender) Fund, a new field of interest fund at Grand Rapids Community Foundation has reached $270,000 in community donations, exceeding the original goal and 1:1 match set in August. Shelley [...]
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For the fourth summer in a row, Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s youth employment grants are making it possible for 350 local low-income youth to participate in soft skills training, job readiness preparation, and summer jobs. [...]
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Grand Rapids Community Foundation, the area’s largest scholarship provider, this year broke the $1M mark for the first time in history. It awarded 642 scholarships for a total $1,099,400, more than double the $544,500 distributed [...]
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Carlos Sanchez, director of the Latino Business and Economic Development Center for Ferris State University, recently joined Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees. He will serve a four-year term. Other changes on the Board [...]
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Grand Rapids Community Foundation awarded Friends of Grand Rapids Parks’ Urban Forest Project $189,200 to engage the community in planting and growing a larger, healthier urban forest. With this grant, the Grand Rapids Urban Forest [...]
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Aquinas College, Ferris State University, Grand Rapids Community College and Grand Valley State University have each created special scholarship packages to support Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Challenge Scholars program. The Challenge Scholars program, which begins [...]
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Grand Rapids Community Foundation welcomes Meredith Fennema as PR & Marketing Specialist. In this position, Fennema will assist in all foundation communication efforts, include writing for the website, Current, and other Foundation events and publications. [...]
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Business leader, philanthropist, advocate, mentor, volunteer Kate Wolters has gathered many feathers in her cap during her decades of service to West Michigan. This month, Grand Rapids Community Foundation has added another. Wolters has become [...]
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Grand Rapids Community Foundation's Fred & Lena Meijer Scholarship program is awarding $315,000 in scholarships this year, furthering the college education of 120 Meijer team members and their children. The competitive scholarship program, which is [...]