October 16, 2020 October is We Give month for the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation/Ahrens Park Foundation and Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation. Please consider a gift to Imagine Grinnell to support our current programming, 1000+ Trees, Plate to Plant, and Marvin Garden. You can give online at https://imaginegrinnell.org/donate/ or https://ahrensfamilyfoundation.org/imagine-grinnell/ Please write what [...]
October 14, 2020 The month of October is We Give at the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation/ Ahrens Park Foundation and Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation. The JPK fund gives back to the community by helping individuals with expenses related to mental health care, funding trauma training in the school district and much more. To [...]
October 14, 2020 Imagine Grinnell will kick off the 1000+ Trees Grinnell initiative with a public planting event on October 24th beginning at 10AM. As part of its mission to turn imagination into action to create a more vibrant, sustainable, and healthy Grinnell, Imagine Grinnell is leading the effort for the replacement of community trees [...]
October 12, 2020 In an effort to advance anti-racism locally, Grinnell College and the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation have established a Racial Equity Fund. Grinnell College will donate $25,000 and the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation will donate $5,000 to establish this fund. Together, the two organizations will match gifts dollar for [...]
October 10, 2020 October is We Give month at the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation/ Ahrens Park Foundation. The mission of S.H.E. COUNTS is to support, help, and empower women and girls in Poweshiek County. S.H.E. COUNTS is headed by a diverse group of women within the county who are committed to helping move [...]
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 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 [...]
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 21, 2020 The Grinnell Area Mental Health Consortium--JPK Fund recently sponsored trauma sensitivity training for all employees of the Grinnell-Newburg school district. The Sept. 2 training was administered by Please Pass the Love, the Des Moines chapter of a national nonprofit organization that focuses on strengthening and developing mental health systems for schools. [...]
August 27, 2020 LINK is the 2020 recipient of the “Leave It Better Than You Found It” award from the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation (CDAF). The “Leave It Better” award commemorates the August birthday of the late philanthropist Claude W. Ahrens. More than 300 area individuals, groups and [...]
