2007 Grants

Support for the Alanson community's effort to renovate its Hillside Garden.

Support for capital improvements at Camp Tall Turf.

Funding to help establish a teleradiology and telemedicine system encompassing the Charlevoix Area Hospital service area.

Support for structural repairs to a 115-year-old train depot.

Expansion of a food pantry and used clothing store serving northern Michigan.

Interior renovation of a five-floor downtown building that serves as Degage's main office and service center.

Support for a capital campaign to construct a boathouse on the Grand River.

Support for Habitat for Humanity and Grand Rapids Public Schools Construction Project, a partnership to benefit inner-city youth through construction-skill learning on a Habitat home.

An expansion of facilities serving children with neurological differences.

Support for interior renovations of the original City Hall for re-use as the Inland Water Route Historical Museum.

Expansion of the Emergency Department and construction of the Hauenstein Center, a new medical facility dedicated to diagnosis and treatment of neuroscience disorders.

Increase square footage of regional food distribution warehouse.

Renovated facilities for wellness and educational services directed at local underserved employees.

Establish the Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Grand Rapids.

Support for planning of a Wealthy Heights initiative to redevelop 5 streets north of the Wealthy Theatre.

Funding to help establish the Michigan State University west Michigan medical school.

Feasibility study to explore availability of and local support for larger, more appropriate space for agency operations.

Matching dollars for federal grant to facilitate planning and improvement of two central city neighborhoods.

Increase local efforts to attract amatuer and professional sporting events to Kent County.

Support for the publication of a Guide to Architecture for West Michigan.

Support for a comprehensive effort to revitalize two central city neighborhoods - Uptown and Southtown - using Tax Increment Finance vehicles.

Funding to help better prepare children of Somali Bantu refugees for success in school.

Corridor improvements in the public right-of-way for a heavily traveled thoroughfare along southbound U.S. 131.

Support for the violence prevention program of the non-profit, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Michigan.

Pilot program to support grieving children who have experienced the death of a parent, primary caretaker, sibling or friend because of illness, accident, suicide or homicide.

New infant-toddler spaces and program support throughout the Children's Museum.

Preserve continuity of high-quality, community-based childcare in Harbor Springs through its transition to a permanent facility.

Launch of "Success from Birth" program, designed to improve literacy of low-income parents and their children through heightened exposure to parenting education and library resources.

Support for the Literacy Competency for Life program.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Land purchase (120 acres) to buffer an ecologically significant wetland preserve located on Beaver Island.

Water quality monitoring and testing in the Coldwater River Watershed to determine, through DNA testing, the type of E.Coli polluting this high-quality river.

Removal and restoration of the Green River Trout Farm dam in the Jordan River watershed.

Comprehensive sediment loading study for the Jordan River with recommended mitigation plan.

Exploration of a possible new nonprofit organization that would enhance the City of Grand Rapids' parks system by developing resources and engaging citizens.

The design of the Cherry Street On-Street Trail Link - a connector between recreation trails at Reeds Lake in East Grand Rapids and the Kent Trails near John Ball Park.

Support for efforts to expand and deepen HARBOR, Inc.'s base of support and long-term sustainability.

Support for a campaign to protect the integrity of the AuSable River Basin in perpetuity through stewardship and conservation easements.

Acquisition of an 85-acre parcel of land with 6,800 feet of Jordan River frontage.

Assure ongoing attention to the health of the Great Lakes through an endowment fund.

Support for an effort to implement land use projects that will lead to economic prosperity in west and northern Michigan.

Support for the preservation of 1,000 acres of farmland and open space on the Fruit Ridge through a land conservancy-type approach.

Flat River Tract Stewardship Funds: To support The Nature Conservancy’s land acquisition for a preserve near Grand Rapids' Flat River.

Support for components of a comprehensive watershed protection and restoration program - the Treasure Lake Charlevoix project.

For the R2Trail project, a planning effort which may eventually connect the Fred Meijer Heartland Trail in Montcalm and Gratiot counties with the larger West Michigan Trail Network via the city of Lowell.

Support for strategic collaboration between philanthropy and state government via the Office of Foundation Liaison.

"S.O.U.L. of Philanthrophy" documentary - a video history of local philanthropists.

Research in support of more efficient and collaborative grantmaking practices on a national scale.

Support for 2007-2008 Annual Campaign.