Recently Awarded Grants
The following grants were awarded as they strategically use resources to enhance the quality of life for Holland/Zeeland citizens.
Arts and Culture
- Holland Historic Trust - $3,000 for preserving paintings and framed works of art through proper storage.
Health
- Family Hope Foundation - $6,000 to assist families with children with special needs in accessing therapy and other support services.
- Holland Free Health Clinic - $8,000 to equip the clinic’s current dental facility to enable volunteer dentists to provide restorative dental care and extractions for underserved residents.
Human Services
- Good Samaritan Ministries - $7,000 to provide matching funds for two full-time AmeriCorps members to expand the capacity of the Affordable Housing Connections Program and Clearinghouse Services.
- Holland Alano Association - $6,000 to support continued growth in leadership capacity.
- Jordan River Ministries - $5,000 to expand services for residents of the women’s transitional home who are recovering from substance abuse.
- Midtown Counseling Services - $2,000 to provide counseling services to residents of Holland’s core city neighborhoods.
- Ottawa County Human Services Coordinating Council - $5,000 to coordinate county-wide human service issues with a focus on expanding access to health and mental health services.
Youth
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Holland - $5,000 to expand the Teen Tech program for Teen Center members.
- Center of African American Art and History - $7,250 for the Children’s Reading and Arts Corner and related programming for children in kindergarten through 3rd grade.
- Every Woman’s Place - $2,616 to provide housing for homeless or runaway youth aged 10-17 in licensed host homes.
- Greater Ottawa County United Way - $5,000 to expand the Student Service Learning Program in Holland/Zeeland area schools.
- Holland Area Arts Council - $3,000 to help facilitate a month-long Youth Arts Festival.
- Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance - $7,500 for the Migrant Sports Program.
- Ottawa County MSU Extension - $2,000 to provide matching funds for a Mentor Michigan College Coaching AmeriCorps member to work with the Ottawa County Mentoring Collaborative.
- Rick Rack - $2,952 to furnish and equip space for the clothing program, which serves youth in foster care.
- Sheldon Woods Elementary - $2,475 to create an Autism Sensory Room which will help students with Autism Spectrum Disorder become more productive learners.
- Young Life - $7,500 to develop and implement a year-long life skills curriculum for teenage mothers.
