July 18, 2022 Music education in school has so many benefits, including: Improved memory Better test scores Improved language skills Better math skills Confidence and Self esteem Thinking about band and choir as your child enters the middle school? The Vosburg Music Fund can help. Please email us with questions at jennifer@ahrensfamilyfoundation.org [...]
July 15, 2022 The next speaker for the mental health speaker series with the Grinnell-Newburg School District is in 2 months! Save the Date for Sept. 15. We need you Does your group or business offer community resources? Hit us up to be a part of the next mental health speaker on Sept. 15! Send [...]
July 1, 2022 Nominations are open for the 2022 “Leave It Better Than You Found It” awards from the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation. All Grinnell area nonprofit, social, civic, fraternal, and community groups making a difference in the local community are eligible to be nominated by the August 1 deadline. The 2022 [...]
May 2, 2022 The initiative to upgrade T.T. Cranny Field at Grinnell High School, like so many other private and public projects, has encountered a significant cost increase due to pandemic-related workforce and supply chain issues. In response the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation and the Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation have partnered to establish a [...]
April 15, 2022 Custom Jersey Orders Due April 19 The 2022 Prairie Burn 100 gravel bike ride will take off from Grinnell, Iowa’s Central Park on Saturday, June 11, 2022, with a start time of 7 A.M. The ride is a fundraiser for Imagine Grinnell, a nonprofit that manages programming for healthy and sustainability [...]
March 29, 2022 The first Mental Health Speaker Series starts tonight! Come out and see us at Grinnell High School! Food, Community Resource Fair and an amazing speaker!
March 8, 2022 March 8 marks International Women’s Day and S.H.E Counts wants to take this time to celebrate the women in your life. Jane Casten, S.H.E. Counts board chair tells us “I was drawn to S.H.E counts by the support, awareness and impact the board was making within the community, allowing women’s voices to [...]
February 18, 2022 The Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation was announced the winner of the 2022 Healthiest State Small Workplace Award in an online ceremony Thursday. The award recognizes the Ahrens Foundation for efforts to improve the physical, social and emotional well-being of its employees. “We are proud to recognize the Claude W. and [...]
January 25, 2022 Chad Nath served as LINK Grinnell’s Executive Director for two years before accepting the position as CEO of the Ahrens Park Foundation. Prior to his role with LINK, Chad spent 16 years with UnityPoint Health – GRMC; seven as Director of Wellness, Fitness, and Integrated Health, nine as Director of Safety, Security, [...]
January 27, 2022 What are the needs of the community? Help us out by answering this short, anonymous survey.
