During the 2015 Fall and 2016 Spring grant sessions, the SHCF’s Grant Committee considered a record number of applications. Nearly $30,000 was awarded to area non-profits, with a focus on the areas of education, visual arts, performing arts, recreation, information and community health. The Committee conducted personal interviews with several applicants to gain increased understanding of their objectives and processes, a practice that will be expanded in the future. The next grant session is Spring 2017. Grant applications should be submitted by April 15th.
Your dollars make our dollars go further.
With every donation that we get, we are able to put more back into our community. Read about the amazing programs we are able to support in South Haven.
YDC/PAL
This summer, the South Haven Community Foundation granted the Youth Development Company/PAL $2,000 to provide scholarships to families attending the Summer Fun in the Park program. This program runs for six weeks each summer from 12pm to 6pm Monday through Friday. Children receive lunch, afternoon snack and dinner each day. It is heavily focused on physical activity, forming positive relationships with staff and having the best summer ever!
Its motto is “No Child Left Inside!”
Each week we attend field trips, which gives many children the opportunity to experience and learn something new. Thank you South Haven Community Foundation.
~Audry Litts, Executive Director at YDC/PAL
Mysteries Beneath the Waves, Michigan Maritime Museum
The grant awarded to the Michigan Maritime Museum from the South Haven Community Foundation, has enhanced the experience & interpretation of our newest exhibition, Mysteries Beneath the Waves and companion exhibition, Fatal Crossing.
The audio & visual affects truly offer the visitor a lifelike experience within our campus,
and the comments from the public as well as the students have proven just that. Thank you so much for supporting the Museum and helping us provide an exceptional experience, attracting thousands to South Haven, the Maritime District, and the Michigan Maritime Museum.
~ Patti Montgomery–Reinert
Executive Director, Michigan Maritime Museum
Hospice at Home
By providing a monthly peer grief support group in the schools of South Haven, students are able to access unconditional grief support right in their own school environment. Being with peers who have also experienced a death in their lives offers a common foundation of understanding, on which to build trust and acceptance.
“I get to interact with other kids in my school that sometimes feel how I do.”
“I can tell them certain things I can’t tell my own mom.”
“That its okay to say what you want. Nobody will judge or think poorly of you.”
~ Melinda Graham, Chief Operating Officer, Hospice at Home
Spring 2015
- Lory’s Place, Hospice at Home
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum
- South Haven Scot Club
- SHOUT, Speakers Series
- Youth Development Company/PAL
The Youth Advisory Council (YAC) of South Haven granted awards for:
- Baseline Middle School, Art Kiln
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum’s Budding Naturalists
- Lincoln & Maple Grove New Technology Program, Osmos
- Maple Grove, Explore Time Centers
- Maple Grove Elementary Book Bags
- North Shore Elementary 5k and Field Day
- South Haven Memorial Library Computer Upgrade
Fall 2015
- Al-Van Humane Society
- Foundry Hall
- Girl Scouts of South Haven
- Junior Achievement of South Haven
- Michigan Maritime Museum
- Sarett Nature Center
- Saugatuck Center for the Arts
- South Haven Area Emergency Services
- South Haven Performance Series
- Youth Development Company/PAL
Spring 2014
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum
- Youth Development Company/PAL
- South Haven Performance Series 2014
- Michigan Maritime Museum
- Al-Van Humane Society
- Riverfront Summer Concert Series, City of South Haven
- Hospice at Home
The Youth Advisory Council (YAC) of South Haven granted awards for:
- To purchase laptop computers for use by the industrial arts program at SHHS
- To purchase 2 iPad minis for daily listening and reading activities/programs Kindergarten.
- To purchase a 3-D printer for use by middle school science and PLTW/STEM students.
- To funds a summer reading and writing event featuring a performance by “Brainstormers” founder, Geoff Safron.
Fall 2014
- Historical Association of South Haven
- Foundry Hall
- South Haven Performance Series 2015
- South Haven Center of the Arts
- Junior Achievement of Southwestern Michigan
