As a facilitative community leader, the Berrien Community Foundation is proud
and honored 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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2900 Lakeview
Project/PACE Plus (Region IV Area Agency on Aging, Hospice at Home, Inc.,
Lakeland)
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Give 'Em 40 Assets
in Michigan's Great Southwest (Countywide Collaborative). Check out the
Search Institute materials
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Barnyard at the
Beach Sponsor in 2011-City of St. Joseph, Allison Clark-Artist
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Benton Harbor 4th
of July Parade
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Benton Harbor
Youth Works! (Michigan Works!)
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Benton Spirit
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Bridge Academy
(Michigan Works!)
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Box
Factory/Berrien Artist Guild--Best of Show & Ain't Tina Turner Classical Music?
(Benefit for the Soup Kitchen) Sponsor
The Cast of Ain't Tina Turner
Classical Music?
A Benefit for the Soup Kitchen
with the Berrien Artist Guild
Nanette Keiser (l), BCF President, and Ali
Hansen (r), Executive Director, Box Factory for the Arts, present a check
for $4,420 to Andy Takacs, Soup Kitchen Board Member. The check represents money
raised by theater presentations of “Ain’t Tina Turner Classical Music” and a
Turkey Trot coloring contest sponsored by the Box Factory. All proceeds from the
event were donated to the Soup Kitchen. In addition, an anonymous donor advised
fund from the Berrien Community Foundation donated $2,500 to the Soup
Kitchen.
Teresa Durham, Executive Director, NonProfit Alliance, Facilitator,
and
Nakia James, Presenter,
September 2011 Program Evaluation Workshop
for
50 Berrien County nonprofit representatives
underwritten by the Coalition and Lake Michigan College
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Community
Conversations: Center for Michigan (Lake Michigan College, MI Works!,
United Way of SW MI, Upton Foundation)
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Concours
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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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Discovery
Enrichment Center (United Way of SW MI, Benton Harbor Area Schools)
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GED/Literacy
Community Project
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Holiday Party for
Foster Children (Department of Human Services, Krasl Art Angels, BCF TEAM)
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.
Physicians Office at Lakeland's Marie Yeager
Cancer Center
jointly sponsored by the Berrien Community
Foundation
& United Way of Southwest Michigan
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Mendel Mainstage
Programs
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Neighborhood Revitalization and Development
(Cornerstone Alliance, United Way of Southwest Michigan, CWCC, CPC, City of
Benton Harbor)
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Rotary Centennial
Project (Benton
Harbor Sunrise, St. Joseph/Benton Harbor, Lakeshore, Paw Paw): Co Sponsors of
a 2005 Jimmy Carter Work Project House
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Silver Beach (Curious
Kids' Discovery Zone, Silver
Beach Carousel Society)
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Southshore Concert
Band Holiday Concert
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Southwest Michigan
2-1-1 (United Way led effort)
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Southwest Michigan Community Action
Agency's Poverty Simulation Workshop
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Southwest Michigan
Symphony Orchestra--New Buffalo and Mainstage programs
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Southwestern
Michigan Estate Planning Council
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Sustaining the
Future: The Planned Giving Education Program of Berrien County
(United Way
of Southwest Michigan, Coalition of Community Funders, Southwest Michigan Estate
Planning Council, several nonprofits)
Martha Thieneman, Readiness Center,
at the recent Sustaining the Future
Interaction Booths
at the October session of the SW MI Estate
Planning Council
a helpful networking opportunity for all
involved
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Berrien County NonProfit Collaborative
Working in the nonprofit sector, resources are always
scarce. This has been especially true as we come out of this latest economic
crisis. Our donors also expect us to use their gifts wisely by keeping our
administrative costs at reasonable levels. Our communities expect us to provide
the best quality services/programs at affordable costs as well.
The Coalition of Community Funders (i.e., Berrien Community
Foundation, United Way of SW MI, Frederick S. Upton Foundation, and Whirlpool
Foundation), after being approached by several nonprofits with this concept, is
facilitating how 501(c)(3)s in Berrien County might collaborate to gain leverage
with vendors for various services and to share best practices around purchasing.
The Berrien County NonProfit Collaborative (BCNPC) Steering
Committee was formed with the goal of being cross representative of nonprofits
in Berrien County. The Berrien Community Foundation is representing the
Coalition of Community Funders members on the Committee and is acting as the
overall neutral facilitator. Steering Committee Nonprofit Organizations
include the Area Agency on Aging (Region IV), Berrien Community Foundation, Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Berrien & Cass, Inc., Child & Family Services,
Cornerstone, Curious Kids’ Museum, Gateway, Hospice at Home, Michigan Works!,
Senior Nutrition Services, and the Volunteer Center.
As a first step in what we hope to be productive
collaborations with the goals above, the Steering Committee has developed two
documents to share with nonprofits in Berrien County. The first is a suggested
vendor criteria list for use when engaging a vendor. The second is a
suggested vendor list and helpful links. We have also shared a recent document
of the economic impact of nonprofits in Michigan provided by the Michigan NonProfit Association.
These are living documents. Nonprofit organizations are
encouraged to email any additions,
suggestions, etc. to BCNPC
Click on the link below to download the documents
* Suggested
Vendor Criteria List (pdf file)
* Suggested Vendor
List (pdf file)
* Snapshot of
Michigan's Nonprofit Community (pdf file)
