Give Grand Rapids – A Charitable Registry
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// MISSION
Our mission is to build and manage our community’s permanent endowment and lead the community to strengthen the lives of its people.
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Grand Rapids Community Foundation is a nonprofit organization that connects people, passion, and resources. Over the last century, the Community Foundation has worked with partners to find solutions to the community’s most pressing issues. It provides grants to support the work of nonprofits, scholarships to local students, and other forms of support to communities working to eliminate barriers to opportunity, prosperity, and belonging.
The Community Foundation is guided by its North Star: For West Michigan to grow and prosper, we must make sure that everyone can apply their talents and creativity to fuel our future. It is only by connecting across perspectives and overcoming inequities that we can build and sustain an inclusive economy and thriving community. The foundation helps local philanthropists leave a lasting legacy by stewarding their assets to accomplish their unique goals, today and beyond their lifetime. Its donor partners support a wide variety of funds and initiatives, including:
- Education supports and scholarships for local students.
- Community partnership funds focused specifically on communities with shared identities or interests, including the Black Legacy, Somos Comunidad, Our LGBTQ, and Youth Grant funds.
- Its Fund for Community Good, built by hundreds of donor partners, which invests in nonprofit partners throughout Kent County who share its commitment to becoming actively antiracist.
// LEADERSHIP
LaSandra A. Gaddy
President and CEO
Ashley René Lee
Vice President of Strategic Communications
Kate Luckert Schmid
Vice President of Programs
Stan Vander Roest
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Marilyn Zack
Vice President of Development
// GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LOVE FOR GRAND RAPIDS
Grand Rapids Community Foundation has a staff of professionals to help you accomplish your philanthropic goals. Whether you are interested in giving during your lifetime or want to create a gift in your will, they can help. They will listen and provide ideas and options to help you find your unique way to make the community an even better place to call home.
GIVE NOW
Make your gift today. One-time or recurring donations can be made online using a credit card.
GIVE LATER
Learn about smart, easy, and cost-effective ways to give through your will or an estate plan. The vast majority of the Community Foundation’s assets have come from gifts in a will.
CREATE YOUR OWN FUND
The Community Foundation manages more than 850 separate funds. Establishing your own fund is a great way to carry on your family name or honor the memory of a loved one.
// CONTACT INFORMATION
185 Oakes St.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503 | 616-454-1751
grfoundation.org
