College Positive Community Day
The Michigan Gateway Community Foundation received a grant from the Kresge Foundation in 2013 with the purpose to be the encouragement for students to attend college. Our YAC partnered with Lake Michigan College (LMC) to encourage 8th grade students from the communities we serve to start thinking about going to college. The first week of March, 2013 we bused selected 8th grade students to the LMC campus to attend workshops so students know college can be in their future. The 8th graders heard from panels of current college students, professors and professionals, played games and had lunch. Our YAC thinks it is important to get younger students excited about going to college. They believe an event like this will start a new trend of college going students, and will re apply in 2014 to provide the program once again.
100 Years of Giving and Growing Together
One hundred years ago, in 1914, the community foundation concept was born in the Midwest, giving rise to a new philanthropy, a new way of participating in community, and a new vision for the future.Today, Michigan Gateway Community Foundation is one of more than 700 community foundations in the United States, collectively managing more than $48 billion in assets and making grants of approximately $4.5 billion a year to improve life in their communities. There are more than 1,700 community foundations worldwide.Like all community foundations, Michigan Gateway Community Foundation invites everyday people with a vision and a passion for community to create something together: For good. Forever.
- We translate collective giving into big local impact
- We give everyone access to the power of endowment
- We are devoted to the people and places you love
Join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the community foundation spirit! Contact us for information on your hometown community foundation.