Grants
	Since the early 1920s, tens of thousands of donors have joined with their local community foundations, taking an active role in strengthening and enriching the communities in which they live. With expertise acquired from decades of grantmaking, community foundations can help donors direct their gifts where they will do the most good, and ensure that the grants made in their names will have just as much impact decades from now as they do today. Below is a sampling of grants that illustrate how community foundations throughout Michigan are making a difference in their respective communities. Allegan County Community Foundation Grant amount: $20,000 - Rural Economic Development, cultivate, promote & preserve the region's cultural economy Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $150,000 - To expand programming at The Neutral Zone center. Barry Community Foundation Grant amount: $3,000 - The requested funding was used to complete a baseline inventory of natural resources to delineate potential natural areas for preservation within Barry County. Battle Creek Community Foundation Grant amount: $75,000 - To assist low income adults in receiving prescription drugs at no cost. Bay Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $50,000 – Saginaw Valley State University Nursing Collaborative. [top] Berrien Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 8,000 - Funding to provide nationally accredited training for all Child Development employees in order to increase the quality and expertise of staff involved with the implementation of child-centered, early childhood brain researched curriculum, specifically for stipends and travel. Branch County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 4,500 - To support the Agri-Environmental Wilderness Expedition (AEWE) program's success since 1991 to involve interested students from Branch County in a 6-7 day wilderness expedition with the purchase of durable four season tents. Cadillac Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 45,000 - Capital campaign to build a YMCA in Cadillac. Capital Region Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 25,000 from CRCF with a $45,000 match from the Dart Foundation = $70,000 total leveraged grant - Project Learn engages children ages 6-17 in high-yield learning activities designed to strengthen math & science knowledge, problem solving skills, utilizing a new engineering program & mobile learning lab, to improve academic success. [top] Charlevoix County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 3,000 - Year-long initiative to partner with other communities to create programs designed to stimulate entrepreneurship. [top] Four County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 20,148 - Provided equipment grant for the creation of a new Sexual Assault Center. Fremont Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 1,300,000 - This grant provides new computers, workstations, software, tech services and other hardware such as classroom video projectors and portable ITV labs for all five school districts and the NCRESA in Newaygo County. Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 130,000 - To support the renovation and expansion of the library at its current downtown location in Grand Haven. Grants were made from the Greatest Needs Fund and the Marion A. and Ruth K. Sherwood Family Fund. The Youth Advisory Council also responded with a $30,000 grant to provide funds for the Teen Room. Many donors have made grants from their Donor Advised Funds, and to date over $750,000 has been committed from GHACF to the project. Grand Rapids Community Foundation Grant Amount: $486,000 - Awarded to the Kent Intermediate School District to establish school-based integrated social services and to create a school-based program that will coordinate and deliver health and human services to students and their families.   [top] Gratiot County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 19,250 - Grants are awarded to area elementary schools underprivileged. Greenville Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 20,300 - Specially equipped golf car with goggles that simulates various levels of drunk driving - alcohol prevention programming - has been used for adults to. Hillsdale County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 16,000 - Monies were placed in the accounts of all of the food banks serving Hillsdale County to provide financial assistance for the purchase of food and non-food items. The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Grant amount: $ 15,000 - To fund development, implementation and maintenance of a collaborative to link services & identify gaps in services. [top] The Jackson County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 40,000 - A health plan for uninsured and underinsured residents of Jackson County. Kalamazoo Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 80,000 - UJima PAT trains parent educators to teach culturally responsive parenting information and skills to families of children aged 0-5, in African American, Latino and Native American communities. Keweenaw Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 11,621 - Provide method to evacuate victims from inaccessible areas of the two counties. Lapeer Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 9,000 - Conducted a telephone and on site survey to senior citizens of Lapeer County to determine present needs. Leelanau Township Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 35,000 - Established to assist the Leelanau Children's Center opening of an Early Childhood Education Program in Northport. Lenawee Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 4,000  - Targeted incoming middle school students that may have difficulty adjusting. Mackinac Island Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 1,730 - This grant allowed the EMT's based on Mackinac Island to purchase adult and child airway manikins and other training tools in order to keep their skills sharp and afford them the same training opportunities available on the mainland. [top] Marquette Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 1,750 - Start-up costs for a county-wide youth male chorus. Midland Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 5,000 - Enabled Midland County to prepare to launch and be a part of the state wide 2-1-1 program. [top] Community Foundation of Monroe County Grant amount: $ 1,500 - Shelter door needed to be brought up to code in order for the Vets to remain in the building. Community Foundation for Muskegon County Grant amount: $ 4,000 - This grant helped bring food distribution trucks to the City of Muskegon as well as to set up a "food depot" for easy delivery to agencies that distributed food. Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan Grant amount: $141,378 - This was many separate grants including building expenses for new community center / ice arena.   [top] Otsego County Community Foundation Grant amount:  $5,000 - Comprehensive water quality.  Bottom testing, shore evaluation and recommendations. Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 1,363 - The Petoskey Club is an activity center for adults with mental illness. They are an underserved population when it comes to physical health issues. This grant provided free wellness screenings and information on how to quit smoking. Roscommon County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 500 - Provided 14,421 pounds of food for 692 people in our county at a food giveaway. Saginaw Community Foundation Grant amount:  $25,000 - A capability study of Saginaw County to determine if Saginaw could play a lead. Sanilac County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 1,900 - Presents a pro-active method to helping youth in crisis & provides a way for youth to reach out for help. [top] Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Grant amount: $ 50,000 - Develop curriculum for an educational series on childhood obesity. Sturgis Area Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 25,000 -Grant requiring Auditorium to raise a certain amount to access the grant dollars. Tuscola County Community Foundation Grant amount: $ 5,500 - To focus efforts of prevention of sexual abuse and neglect.   [top]