October 7, 2020 By Nadia Langley, writer for The Scarlet & Black Imagine Grinnell recently launched its 1000+ Trees Grinnell Initiative, a project that aims to restore the trees lost in Poweshiek and neighboring counties as a result of August’s derecho. Imagine Grinnell is a partner program of the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens [...]
October 7, 2020 School music lessons can significantly boost children’s cognitive skills, including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience. In addition, these cognitive skills developed through music go on to positively influence students’ performance in completely unrelated subjects, resulting in [...]
October 5, 2020 Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation (GPCF) and the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation (CDAF) announce the launch of the joint annual fundraising campaign titled “We Give.” Since 2011, October has been the focus of an annual giving campaign for the GPCF, historically called Big GIVE. “After a tumultuous year of a [...]
October 5, 2020 October is We Give month for the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation/Ahrens Park Foundation and Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation. Take Away Hunger is a food relief organization that unites teams of local volunteers. The Grinnell advisory board coordinates four community-wide packaging events annually where teams package highly nutritious food that is sent [...]
October 1, 2020
September 28, 2020 Imagine Grinnell board members and friends gathered on Saturday to clean up perennial spaces at Marvin Garden. After getting through multiple layers of burs we successfully moved 4 truck loads to the brush dump! Thanks to everyone who helped!
September 21, 2020 Members of the Grinnell Food Coalition (GFC) are seeking donations to help area families in need through the end of the year. Need grew dramatically in August as unemployment supplements ended and the derecho struck. And GFC is now asking community members who can, to contribute toward GFC food vouchers. Joe [...]
September 24, 2020 Donations to MICA yesterday from Marvin Garden! Thank you Poweshiek County Master Gardeners of Iowa and Imagine Grinnell Foundation for your hard work on Marvin Garden.
September 23, 2020 Imagine Grinnell has convened community volunteers and City partners to form the 1000+ Trees Grinnell initiative to replace trees lost during the August 10th derecho. A significant portion of the Grinnell tree canopy fell victim to the storm as well as the previous emerald ash borer infestation. As part of its mission [...]
September 23, 2020 Area residents may qualify for funding from this Affordable Housing Assistance Fund. Up to $25,000 of housing improvement assistance is available. Some of the housing assistance loan amount will be forgivable and some repayable, depending upon income. Please help spread word to those in need in our community. For more information [...]
