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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

We’ve been busy with 941-HELP and I first want to thank all of our fellow not-for-profit organizations who have been working with us to input information so that 941-HELP is as accurate as possible – your work is very much appreciated!!   In case you haven’t heard, 941-HELP is a new information and referral program

This holiday season, especially for children, is full of magic and wonder. Here at the Morris Community Foundation, our eyes, minds, and hearts have recently begun to understand the magic of endowment and we’d like to share this phenomenon with you! You’ve probably heard us say before that Grundy County is a very charitable community,

It’s hard to believe that the end of the year is already upon us!  And like most not-for-profit organizations, we like to spend time at the end of the tax year to remind donors that our work and impact in the community are worthy of a charitable gift.   But before we get to that,

It is always difficult to describe what a community foundation does.  Over the years I have used several analogies to describe the activities of the Morris Community Foundation.  I have said that the Foundation should be the “burr under the saddle of the community” working on issues that no one else will tackle.  Often the

This past summer the Morris Community Foundation partnered with Mr. Richard Joyce of the Grundy County Board to begin convening stakeholders around the issue of public transportation for Grundy County.   We were nervous about starting such a daunting task until we discovered the Illinois Rural Transit Assistance Center (IRTAC) at Western Illinois University.  Ed

Most Americans recognize the value of family giving. According to the 2000 Cone/Roper Raising Charitable Children Survey, 85 percent of the respondents said they believe children should be introduced to philanthropy—and that parents play a key role in getting kids involved. Fully 96 percent agreed that parents’ charitable giving and volunteer activities are good ways