Community Impact

Holland Public Schools - Project Endeavor

Education Opportunity Gap

$60,000 over 2 years

To implement the new After School Endeavors Program, which supports K-12 students at risk of learning loss in the areas of reading, writing, and math.

Zeeland Public Schools - ZPS Summer Learning

Education Opportunity Gap

$60,000 over 2 years

To supplement the work being done with elementary students at-risk of learning loss during the summer and grow the program to serve an additional 30+ students who demonstrate academic and/or socio-emotional needs.

Single MOMM - Establishing Comprehensive Support for Single Moms

Healthy Parent/Caring Adult Relationship in a Child's Life

$60,000 over 2 years

To help Single MOMM offer parenting classes, resource navigation assistance, and mental health support services for single mothers.

Arbor Circle - Increasing Father Friendly Services in Ottawa County

Healthy Parent/Caring Adult Relationship in a Child's Life

$30,000

To research, understand, and address the needs and barriers for engaging fathers and father figures, ultimately leading to the development of best practice tools, resources, and training to support them.

Midtown Counseling - Family/Parental Engagement in On-Site School Counseling for Holland Public Schools

Healthy Parent/Caring Adult Relationship in a Child's Life

$30,000

To deepen the family and parental engagement in on-site school counseling by offering: free counseling to family members of the student being counseled, parenting classes; art therapy; life skill groups; and more.

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland - Education Programs

Education Opportunity Gap

$25,000

To make daily academic assistance available to all club members through Power Hour, Project Learn, and EPIC. Power Hour offers students homework help from BGCGH staff or volunteers; Project Learn focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics; and EPIC supports high school students in connecting their current studies with post-secondary education plans.

Radiant Roots Doula Network - Doula Services and Community Birthing Classes

Healthy Parent/Caring Adult Relationship in a Child's Life

$25,000

To help the organization expand into Ottawa County and provide high-quality, culturally responsive doula services and birthing classes.

Hand2Hand - Nutrition Packs and Backpacks

Youth

$9,800

To supply 1,857 Holland/Zeeland area students ages 3-18, with a backpack and a nutrition pack containing nutrition information, a water bottle, and healthy snacks. This approach removes barriers and puts tools directly in families’ hands to build healthy eating habits.

Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity - Critical Home Repair Program

Housing

$60,000 over 2 years

To help homeowners in the ALICE population complete repairs to make their home a safe and stable place to live. This addresses the affordable housing crisis by keeping people in their homes.

Benjamin's Hope - This Is Home

Human Services/Housing

$40,000

To assist Benjamin’s Hope in building two additional homes on its 53-acre campus to welcome and serve 12 new adults affected by autism.

Grant Me Hope - The Rock

Human Services/Housing

$40,000

To launch services for male former foster youth at the old Rock Island Restaurant that has been remodeled into a dormitory style home. Providing safe and supportive transitional housing with programs to meet the needs of former foster youth will assist these young adults with learning the skills and saving the money they need to transition to successful independent living.

LAUP - Community Center Development

Community and Economic Development

$40,000

To develop an empty warehouse connected to the LAUP office into a center for community development, events, and increased program offerings. The space will serve as a safe, trusted gathering place to give current and future generations of the Hispanic/Latino community opportunities to socialize, learn, and access resources and opportunities to thrive.

3Sixty - Place Based Leadership

Human Services/Education

$35,000 over 2 years

To support the launch of a leadership program in Holland’s Eastcore neighborhood that equips residents with processes and tools they can use to continue making sustainable change for themselves and their community.

The Rink Fund - City of Holland Ice Skating Park

Community and Economic Development

$33,000

To construct an outdoor ice-skating park that will serve as a space for collective joy for all residents, while also creating a space that invites additional tourism and business to the area.

Empowering Youth Global Connection - Expanding Cultural Programming

Youth

$32,900 over 2 years

To expand capacity to grow cultural appreciation classes and add a new life-skills class for teens coming from immigrant or adoptive families. Immigrant teens are vulnerable to additional stress and anxiety during adolescence and are often relied heavily upon by their parents and younger siblings.

Great Lakes Urban Restoration Network - Cultivating Connection & Change in Southwestern Holland

Human Services

$30,000 over two years

To significantly expand the Cultivating Connection & Change in South Holland initiative. This initiative replicates the successful community connector model used elsewhere in Holland to achieve better outcomes for residents living in the distressed southwestern quadrant of the city.

The Lucas Project – Respite Farm Days

Youth

$30,000 over two years

To renovate a large barn into a respite program for individuals with disabilities and their caregivers. The Lucas Project intends to meet the needs of families with children who have high support needs by providing program participants opportunities for growth and development and their caregivers some much-needed respite.

Kids’ Food Basket – Ottawa and Allegan County Farm Initiative Greenhouse and Learning Barn

Youth

$25,000

To support the construction of a Learning Barn and Greenhouse to enhance operations of the Ottawa County Farm, increasing learning opportunities for children and extending food production year-round.

Holland Museum - Addressing Accessibility

Arts & Culture

$23,733

To increase accessibility in the Museum’s spaces through the installation of a hearing loop system, addition of headsets for guided tours, updated wayfinding signage, and installation of ADA power door operators.

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland - Southside Entrance and Safety Improvements

Youth

$20,000

To provide student members and their families utilizing the southside facility with a safer and more dignified arrival and departure experience.

Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest – Michigan Power Plants to Parklands (P2P)

Environment

$15,000

To assist in an opportunity that has emerged with the closure of Consumer Energy’s J.H. Campbell coal plants in West Olive. ELPC will clean up and transition the retired coal plants to expand nearby public parklands and beaches for outdoor recreational uses; protect safe, clean healthy water resources; and provide grid-connected large-scale solar energy generation and energy storage resources that produce clean power, job creation and property tax revenues.

West Ottawa Public Schools - Project Panther

Education Opportunity Gap

$60,000 over 2 years

To help address learning loss and mitigate gaps at the pivotal third grade year by providing three, free, six-week after school program sessions during the academic year that include supports for students who have fallen behind or experienced learning loss in math.

MomsBloom - Ottawa County Postpartum Support Program

Healthy Parent/Caring Adult Relationship in a Child's Life

$60,000 over 2 years

To support MomsBloom's expansion of services into Ottawa County. MomsBloom serves families in the immediate weeks and months after a child is born using evidence-based practices to screen for post-partum depression, provide referrals to community resources, and give direct assistance to the household. They prioritize serving single mothers, new parents who don’t have family or friends nearby, and others who lack support systems.

Mosaic Counseling – Increasing Capacity of Mosaic’s School Outreach Program in SW Ottawa County

Mental Health

$60,000 over 2 years

To increase Mosaic’s capacity to effectively implement their School Outreach Program by helping to fund the School Outreach Coordinator position and increasing the hours of their six therapists in existing partner schools that currently have a waitlist for students to be seen.

Hope College CASA and Step Up - Academic Intervention Specialist

Education Opportunity Gap

$50,000 over two years

To assist Step Up and CASA in hiring an academic intervention specialist to implement personalized academic support during academic year and summer out-of-school time programming. These funds will help increase capacity by bringing a new position to support both students and tutors in math and general study skills.

Corewell Health – School Telemedicine Program

Mental Health

$46,900 over two years.

To connect Zeeland East and Zeeland West High School students with mental health services embedded within the school setting. Virtual mental health services are offered by appointment, five days a week throughout the school year.

West Michigan Marriage Center - Marriage Restoration Track Program

Healthy Parent/Caring Adult Relationship in a Child's Life

$40,000

To support the development and implementation of the Marriage Restoration Track program and extend scholarship opportunities for those facing financial barriers to participation. West Michigan Marriage Center (WMMC) works with couples whose marriage is in crisis, often on the brink of divorce.

Movement West Michigan - Laying the Foundations for Comprehensive Support for Single Moms Program

Healthy Parent/Caring Adult Relationship in a Child's Life

$30,000

To help pilot a program for single mothers in the Holland/Zeeland area that addresses the core issues of single motherhood and provides innovative and diverse solutions for families desiring to reach self-sufficiency.

Treetops Collective - Circles of Support and Facilitation Training and Coaching

Mental Health

$23,100

To help identify and train local facilitators for the expansion of the Circles of Support program to Ottawa County. Treetops works with individuals that have been through immigration processes, and the Circles program is a peer support group model that addresses gaps in local mental health support resources in culturally appropriate ways.

ODC Network - Summer Program

Education Opportunity Gap

$20,000

To help fund a six-week summer program that combines outdoor education with academic interventions for K-5 students in the greater Holland area, prioritizing students from economically disadvantaged households who are behind in grade-level reading/math expectations.