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Give A Garden

September 20, 2018 Get Into Grinnell Blog (Posted by the Grinnell Chamber of Commerce) Are you familiar with Grinnell's Giving Gardens? The first community Giving Garden was started in the summer of 2013 at Grinnell Regional Medical Center. The gardens were developed as a part of a community transformation grant, and are intended to give the [...]

Kites Over Grinnell at Ahrens Park on Sept. 29th

The always colorful and enjoyable fall event, Kites over Grinnell, will be held Sat., Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Ahrens Park, sponsored by the Grinnell Rotary Club. This year’s event will honor three generations of Rotary leaders from the Urfer family: the late Samuel J. Urfer, who served as president [...]

2020-10-08T21:20:16-06:00September 18th, 2018|Ahrens Park Foundation, Foundation News|

Grinnell honored by Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

August 8, 2018 Pictured Above: Melissa Strovers, Monica Chavez-Silva, and Julie Gosselink receive the national award on behalf of Grinnell honorees in Philadelphia, PA The national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (GLR) recognized the Grinnell Education Partnership with several honors at the GLR Week national conference in Philadelphia July 23–27. The program received a Pacesetter [...]

2020-10-21T15:33:58-06:00August 8th, 2018|Awards, Foundation News|

Nonprofit Educational Workshop Series: Financial Management

August 6, 2018 Beginning next week, the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation and Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation will begin a monthly Nonprofit Educational Workshop series for local nonprofit organizations. Each session will be held on the third Thursday of the month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and will focus on one area [...]

2020-09-29T20:20:30-06:00August 7th, 2018|Foundation News|

Family Memorializes Infant Daughter By Supporting and Promoting the Tiger Packs Program

August 2, 2018 The Tiger Packs program, established to combat hunger in the Grinnell-Newburg School District, recently was gifted more than $2,830 from a family mourning the loss of their infant daughter.  This collective gift will provide approximately 800 Tiger Packs packages to Grinnell-Newburg students in the 2018-19 school year. Gustie Pearl Hanson, infant [...]

2020-10-08T21:25:59-06:00August 3rd, 2018|Foundation News, Tiger Packs|

IMAGINE GRINNELL’S GRAVEL TOUR AND ANNUAL GIVING GARDENS FAMILY RIDE

July 2, 2018 On Saturday, July 7, Imagine Grinnell (IG) will combine its third annual Giving Gardens bike tour with a new offering—the first annual Grinnell Gravel Tour, a cycling option that is growing in popularity nationwide and within the community. The bike tour is being coordinated this year by IG intern Kate Wiley, [...]

2020-09-29T18:41:43-06:00July 11th, 2018|Foundation News, Imagine Grinnell|

NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR “LEAVE IT BETTER” AWARD

June 25, 2018 Nominations are open for the 2018 “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 Aug. 1 deadline. The 2018 [...]

2020-10-08T21:37:44-06:00June 27th, 2018|Foundation News|

GRINNELL CHILDCARE STUDY REVEALS SHORTAGE OF SPACES IN GRINNELL

June 21, 2018  Community members and business leaders met at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. Wednesday for an initial meeting to reveal the results of the childcare analysis being conducted by First Children’s Finance. According to a 2017 report from the Center for American Progress, Poweshiek County was declared a Childcare Desert. In an effort to address [...]

2020-10-08T21:38:42-06:00June 27th, 2018|Foundation News|

AHRENS GIVING GARDEN EXPANDING

June 14, 2018 Grinnell's array of giving gardens are yielding fresh produce available to all. Several deliveries of produce have already been made to Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) to be made available to families using the MICA food bank. Many of the ongoing gardens are at locations where volunteers do the planting, tending and [...]

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