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The Community Foundation of Grundy County is excited to be celebrating our 10th anniversary!!   In March we launched “10 for 10,” a marketing campaign to highlight ten projects that we’re implementing in our tenth year.   In July, our anniversary month, we launched a great new program – “Who Wants to be a Grantmaker?”  […]

Last week the Illinois Attorney General took action against an allegedly fraudulent charity in Minooka.  Please know that there are a variety of ways in which donors can check the legitimacy of “charities” seeking your donations.   If you have access to the internet, please try some of the websites listed here to research charities

The past twelve months have been especially exciting for the Foundation!   One year ago we hosted our first-ever “Donor & Partner Appreciation Night” where we announced that we had changed our name to the Community Foundation of Grundy County.   Since then we have completed Phase II of our Communityworks initiative, which would not

It’s hard to believe, but the Community Foundation of Grundy County (formerly the Morris Community Foundation) is celebrating our 10th anniversary this year!   What started in 1999 with the reclamation of the old Com Ed property on Illinois Avenue (now Canal Port Park) has expanded into much more than just planting flowers along the

Ah….elbow room.  As you may have heard, the Community Foundation of Grundy County of Grundy County moved into new office space a couple of weeks ago.  Our old office in the Baum Building was perfect for a small organization with one staff, but now that there are three of us, we needed space for more

Have you been thinking about setting up a donor advised fund here at the Community Foundation of Grundy County?  Aside from the technical aspects, have you wondered whether you and your family would enjoy being philanthropists?   If so, may we use this holiday season to suggest a small experiment:   When you are together

We are excited to announce that we have installed two more 941-HELP ATM-style computer kiosks.   One is at the Grundy County Administration Building, just inside the main door and on the Health Department side of the lobby.  The second is in the lobby of the Grundy County Courthouse.   We’d like to thank Grundy

Congratulations to Shirley Kiss and We Care for their recent fundraising success!   For those who haven’t heard, the We Care board of directors is buying their office unit and are naming it the “Shirley Kiss Center” to thank Shirley for her 35 years of work, dedication, and volunteerism to the organization and the community

Hopefully you all read in an earlier edition that the Morris Community Foundation officially changed its name to the Community Foundation of Grundy County.  We announced this name change at our first-ever “Donor and Partner Appreciation Night” on April 18th.   The reason for our name change is pretty basic: to better tell the story

Hopefully you’ve heard by now that the Morris Community Foundation has officially changed its name to the Community Foundation of Grundy County.   When the Community Foundation started in 1999, the board was focused mostly on Morris.  We reclaimed the old Com Ed property along the canal and donated it to the City of Morris