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(l to r) Steve Upton, Frederick S. Upton Foundation, Nanette
Keiser,
Berrien Community Foundation, Anna Murphy, United
Way of SW Michigan,
present the $90,000 grant to the Heartland
Alliance's Opportunity Center's
Mary Howard, Devon Spencer, and Barbara Bell
for the GED/Literacy Community Project
The Foundation is proud to participate, sponsor, support, and/or collaborate on a
number of projects and programs in the Berrien County area, past and present, including:
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Give 'Em 40 Assets
in Michigan's Great Southwest (Countywide Collaborative). Check out the
Search Institute materials -
Benton Harbor 4th
of July Parade -
Benton Harbor
Youth Works! (Michigan Works) -
Benton Spirit -
Berrien County
Nonprofit Collaboration (more to come) -
Box
Factory/Berrien Artist Guild--Best of Show Sponsor -
Bridges to Digital
Excellence -
Larry Bubb Memorial in New Buffalo--Gateway--A tribute to our past Board Chair
by Hillary Bubb and the New Buffalo Community
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Coalition of Community Funders
(along with United Way of SW Michigan, Frederick S. Upton Foundation, and
Whirlpool Foundation) -
Community
Conversations: Center for Michigan (Lake Michigan College, MI Works!,
United Way of SW MI, Upton Foundation) -
Concours -
Court Community
Connections Tour (2010) (MI Supreme Court, Berrien County Courts, Lake Michigan
College, Berrien RESA) for 500 students (see below)
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GED/Literacy
Community Project -
Holiday Party for
Foster Children (Department of Human Services, Krasl Art Angels, BCF TEAM) -
Harbor Shores
(community development aspects)
7th Tee "Marker" dedicated to the Berrien Community Foundation by
Robert Gottlieb, Honorary Trustee, and Anne-Laing Gottlieb, Member
and Scholarship Review Committee Member
A mural was
unveiled and dedicated Thursday, October 9, 2008, at Lakeland Regional Medical
Center. The oil painting recognizes the efforts and partnerships of
the Berrien
Community Foundation and the United Way of
Southwest Michigan.
BCF Board Chair Greg Vaughn, President Nanette
Keiser,
UW President Anna Murphy & Board Chair David
Bly (l to r)
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Mendel Mainstage
Programs -
Neighborhood Revitalization and Development
(Cornerstone Alliance, United Way of Southwest Michigan, CWCC, CPC, City of
Benton Harbor)
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PACE (BC Health
Consortium) -
Rotary Centennial
Project (Benton
Harbor Sunrise, St. Joseph/Benton Harbor, Lakeshore, Paw Paw): Co Sponsors of
a 2005 Jimmy Carter Work Project House -
Silver Beach (Curious
Kids' Discovery Zone, Silver
Beach Carousel Society) -
Southshore Concert
Band Holiday Concert -
Southwest Michigan
2-1-1 (United Way led effort) -
Southwest Michigan Community Action
Agency -
Southwest Michigan
Symphony Orchestra--New Buffalo and Mainstage programs -
Southwestern
Michigan Estate Planning Council -
Sustaining the
Future: The Planned Giving Education Program of Berrien Count
(United Way
of Southwest Michigan, Coalition of Community Funders, Southwest Michigan Estate
Planning Council, several nonprofits) -
Volunteer Center of Southwest Michigan (Outstanding Youth Awards) -
WAUS -
Women's Business
Center (Cornerstone, YWCA, Businesses, etc.)
Dr. Gladys Peeples-Burks (l), Honorary Trustee, Sharon Vargo (c), Board Chair
&
Rotarian,
and Dr. Nanette Keiser (r), President,
participated in the
Jimmy Carter Work Project
via the
Rotary Centennial Project House that BCF helped to sponsor
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