To support a collaboration of West Michigan arts and cultural organizations' launch of a regional marketing program.
www.artsggr.org

To construct a new health lodge for this regional fine arts camp near Muskegon.
www.bluelake.org

An effort by this bell choir organization to expand an outreach program targeted at school-age children.
www.embellish.ws

To support costs related to the shipping and exhibition of Rodin's "The Thinker" in Grand Rapids during renovations at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
www.meijergardens.org

Support for "Maintaining the Masterpiece", a campaign for the second decade of this institution.
www.meijergardens.org

Construction of a LEED-certified, 4,500 square-foot neighborhood library and learning center on Grandville Avenue.
www.gaah.org

Support for the "Restore the Roar" capital campaign to revitalize a portion of the Zoo.
www.johnballzoosociety.org

Support to facilitate the merger of ArtWorks -- a jobs and apprenticeship mentoring program in the arts -- with the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts.
www.uica.org

To support the Summer Public Art Youth Programs which will work with local business and non-profit organizations throughout the City in the creation and placement of public art.
www.uica.org

Support for a public art project by artist Cyril Lixenberg to celebrate and commemorate Grand Rapids as the first city in the world to fluoridate its drinking water.
www.wmdds.org/foundation.php

"The Great Michigan Read" project, an effort to increase literacy and literary readers throughout the State of Michigan, including those of western Michigan.
www.michiganhumanities.org