South Haven Community Foundation

For Good. For All.

The South Haven Community Foundation is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the greater South Haven area by securing its future through endowments

Congratulations to our 2018 grant recipients!

We are so grateful to be able to help make an impact on our community. Over $18,000 was awarded to local organizations to provide the greater South Haven area with quality community programs. We look forward to seeing the grants at work.

Grant Recipients include

Al-Van Humane Society will provide affordable pet care and pet care education.
Bailey Hyde Museum will launch its first ever conference celebrating Bailey’s life, work, philosophy and legacy.
Caring Circle will provide Bereavement Care for adults and South Haven/Covert students K-12.
City of South Haven will use funds to support the Riverfront Concert Series.
Foundry Hall will provide a professional musician to work with SHPS students, host the South Haven Jazz Fest and host an online community calendar
South Haven Speaker Series will bring speakers to discuss
“Issues Innovations and Ideas shaping our lives.”
Junior Achievement will fund 12 programs at Lincoln and Maple Grove Elementary Schools reaching 630 students grades kindergarten through third
Michigan Maritime Museum will launch a summer historical maritime music concert series.
SHOUT will bring quality theatre productions to South Haven.
South Haven Boating Foundation will purchase a storage trailer and provide sailing school scholarships to SHPS students.
South Haven Center for the Arts will offer their Creativity Counts summer program for children emphasizing print making and metal sculpture.
South Haven Performance Series will fund performance artists.

Thank you again to our donors. We couldn’t do it without your support!

Launched! Three New Endowments

We’ve partnered with Al-Van Humane Society, Historical Association of South Haven and South Haven Center for the Arts to launch three new endowment funds. Donations made to the non-profits’ endowments will have long lasting impact on the organizations ability to provide cultural, educational and economic contributions to the Greater South Haven area.

The Historical Association of South Haven is committed to preserving South Haven’s rich history. Funds raised will result in future grants to help preserve the historical past of South Haven, particularly the many collections and artifacts collected since HASH’s founding in 2002.

The South Haven Center for the Arts actively creates youth programs for the community’s artistically centered students and will utilize funds to continue to develop programs which promote art appreciation in the community.

Al-Van Humane Society is the area’s only no-kill shelter. Funds raised will continue providing food, shelter, care and eventually forever families for the community’s lost and/or abandoned pets.

Meet SHCF Board Member Laura Hayward, Treasurer

Laura Hayward

Laura, a South Haven native, is a partner with DeBoer Baumann & Company PLC and has been a certified public accountant for 30 years. Laura is a past president for the South Haven Kiwanis Club and a charter member of Women Who Care – South Haven. Laura serves as Treasurer for the Greater South Haven Community Foundation.

Help us, help South Haven

Through your donor dollars, the South Haven Community Foundation continues to make grants that enhance the lives of the citizens in the South Haven area.

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About the South Haven Community Foundation

The South Haven Community Foundation was established to enrich the community, particularly in the areas of education, economic development, and arts & culture.

This mission is accomplished by growing endowments that will be large enough to sustain the many worthy non-profit initiatives in the South Haven area.

The seeds of the South Haven Community Foundation were planted in 1996 when funds were established at the Kalamazoo Foundation for the charitable benefit of residents in the South Haven area. South Haven community leaders accepted responsibility of recommending how the proceeds of the endowed funds held at Kalamazoo would be distributed: and, locally they began building a publicly supported, non-sectarian, philanthropic institution, with the long term goal of ensuring permanent funds to address current and future community challenges.

The Foundation’s official designation as an independent, non-profit organization was in 2005 with the filing of Articles of Incorporation and By-laws. It was also during this period when funding efforts produced additional endowments that are managed locally.

Be assured, when you give your gift, people like you are making the community we love a better place.