by Kyra Muscat | Jun 22, 2017 | Community Foundation News, Community Foundation Stories, Team, Who We Are
Come on in… welcome to our new home. As a local charitable organization, our physical office is a place where hundreds of donors, grantees, and volunteers gather every year. Our website is an important role in maintaining those relationships, and we’re excited to make...
by Kyra Muscat | Jun 4, 2017 | Donor Impact Stories, Donors, Funds
Carol and Winfield Hall were friends of the Foundation who supported many great community causes. One of the Hall’s passions was music, and another was their church. When Carol passed away, a portion of her estate was left to support the music department at the First...
by Kyra Muscat | May 28, 2017 | Grant Impact Stories, Grants
The Board of the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation (GHACF) is pleased to announce seven second-round grant awards totaling $285,000 to support the northern Ottawa County community, including a $125,000 grant to the Ottawa County Parks Foundation for their Grand...
by Kyra Muscat | May 14, 2017 | Community Foundation Stories, Youth
Mindfulness….hopefully this is a term you have seen or heard recently. In our schools, we have been talking about and sampling lessons around mindfulness. It’s good stuff. Some of it seems obvious, but it’s far too easy to take for granted. Mindful.org defines...
by Kyra Muscat | May 1, 2017 | Arts, Culture & Diversity, Grant Impact Stories, Grantees, Grants
On March 2nd, a $7000 grant to St. John’s Episcopal Church to bring Project Ñ to west Michigan became a reality. Denise Soler Cox presented her documentary “Being ñ,” which documents her personal journey of self-discovery as an “ñ”, and led a panel discussion by three...
