G-Sync – West Michigan Arts Lovers Flex Some Muscle
Tommy Allen, Lifestyle Editor Thursday, June 17, 2010
It seems every few years the arts land in the crosshairs of someone’s scope. And while I spent a good portion of last week meeting people from all over the world at the international furniture market in Chicago, NeoCon, recent headlines at home kept Grand Rapids in my heart. […] I especially want to commend Grand Rapids Community College’s newly installed president Steven Ender for his leadership on this issue. The programs that have been recommended for cutting included the Actors’ Theatre, the Woodrick Diversity Learning Center and their Diversity Lecture Series, which has brought world leaders to our region over the years. (More)
Urban market, GRCC share in $1.5 million in GRCF grants
Elizabeth Slowik | Grand Rapids Business Journal | TUESDAY 4 30 PM
The Grand Rapids Community Foundation has awarded a $150,000 grant for the proposed Grand Rapids Urban Market to be located near downtown. […] The largest grant was for $375,000 to the Grand Rapids Community College Foundation for renovations to Cook Academic Hall to increase the number of nursing and allied health students by 25 percent by 2014. (More)
GRCC Grant
WOOD TV | June 16, 2010
Grand Rapids Community Foundation donates $375,000 toward GRCC campus renovations
Published: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 9:03 PM | Dave Murray | The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS — Grand Rapids Community College leaders say they’ve moved $1 million closer to their $15 million fundraising goal for campus renovations in the past three weeks, including a $375,000 grant focusing on health career classrooms. The Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s gift is targeted to overhauling the Peter & Pat Cook Academic Hall, which is to be recast as the campus’ center for math and health care careers, said Andrew Bowne, executive director of the college’s foundation. (More)
The daily employee newsletter of Grand Rapids Community College 