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Grinnell School of Music Receives $40,000 Gift to Create the Roger & Lisa Henderson Teacher Workspace

February 14, 2024 The Claude W. Ahrens Charitable Trust, Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation, and the Michael and Susan Witt Foundation have pledged a combined $40,000 to the Grinnell School of Music to create a teacher workspace in the school’s new building. The workspace will be named in honor of beloved music educators Roger [...]

2024-02-15T10:10:20-06:00February 14th, 2024|Foundation News, Vosburg Music Fund|

Country sensation Kelli Rachel Belles set to light up Brooklyn Opera House stage in support of S.H.E. Counts

January 5, 2024 Country star Kelli Rachel Belles is coming to the Brooklyn, IA Opera House for a live show on Friday, February 23. Belles has amassed more than 24 million views of her original songs on TikTok, and has been featured on CMT, The Heartland Network, Spotify’s New Music Nashville, New Music Friday [...]

2024-01-17T14:21:19-06:00January 5th, 2024|Foundation News, She Counts|

Annual Community-Wide Fundraiser We GIVE kicks off October 1

October 1, 2022 The Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation (GPCF) and the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation (CDAF) will kick-off the year-end giving season with the annual We GIVE for Poweshiek County, a month-long fundraiser starting October 1 and continuing through October 31. Nicole Brua-Behrens, Executive Director of Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation, invites givers across [...]

2022-09-27T11:59:58-06:00September 30th, 2022|Foundation News|

Meals from the Heartland meal packaging

October 25, 2021 The Grinnell Food Coalition partnered with local businesses and organizations to bring a Meals from the Heartland packaging opportunity to Grinnell. The event was held on Friday, October 22 at the Bayer offsite warehouse with approximately 100 volunteers gathering to package meals. The macaroni and cheese meal includes a soy protein and [...]

G-N District Receives Multiple Nominations to Win “Leave It Better Than You Found It” Award

August 18, 2021 The Grinnell-Newburg Community School District is the 2021 recipient of the “Leave It Better Than You Found It” award from the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation (CDAF). The G-N district received multiple nominations citing the staff and administration’s dedicated response to COVID-19 and the derecho and its care for students [...]

2021-09-01T13:29:39-06:00August 19th, 2021|Foundation News|

International Women’s Day Honorees

March 8, 2021 Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate this year, the three organizations at the heart of our local International Women's Day celebration will be recognizing three women from our community that embody and live out the mission of our organizations. SHE Counts is honoring Emily Moore for her volunteer efforts with our [...]

2021-03-08T13:42:43-06:00March 8th, 2021|Foundation News, She Counts|

Gifting Grinnell Virtual Auction to Stimulate Business, Benefit Local Nonprofit Programs

January 29, 2021 Gifting Grinnell, a virtual auction intended to stimulate business activity and benefit nonprofit programs, is in the final planning stages by six area organizations that have partnered throughout the past year to ease the pandemic’s local burden. At the end of 2020, the City of Grinnell, Grinnell Mutual and Grinnell College [...]

2021-02-02T19:54:19-06:00January 29th, 2021|Foundation News|

The Racial Equity Fund Awards First Grant

January 22, 2021 The Racial Equity Fund, established in December 2020, announces its first grant in the amount of $6,500 to the Grinnell-Newburg School District’s Re-Imagining Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Grinnell (REDI) Committee. The REDI Committee will use the grant award to perform a curriculum review and audit. Dr. Janet Stutz, Grinnell-Newburg Community [...]

2021-01-22T16:36:22-06:00January 22nd, 2021|Foundation News|
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