Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation

The foundation provides scholarship awards to students to help them pursue continuing education opportunities in either a traditional college environment or at a technical or trade school. Scholarships help promote the foundation's focus areas of education and youth. In 2024, there were 223 scholarship recipients.

The foundation plays a collaborative leadership role in the region. This includes convening cross-sector leaders to develop and implement a community development coalition to move the needle in areas of greatest need by working together. In 2024, this work included convening and facilitating a conversation around addressing homelessness in the region, including grants for sanitary facilities at an encampment; public policy advocacy; and awarding grants to youth organizations implementing recommendations from the 2023 youth wellness initiative project, which identified needs and opportunities for support related to youth mental health and well-being.