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BCF Mission: The Barry Community Foundation will serve as a leader, catalyst and resource seeking to improve the lives of people in the Barry County area by promoting charitable giving and the creation of permanently endowed funds, now and for future generations.

 
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Selected specific charitable organizations are supported, as long as the organizations remain in existence and continue to fulfill their intended charitable purpose. If an organization discontinues its services, the Foundation will provide grants to other programs and agencies with similar goals and objectives.

Barry Community Free Clinic Fund
This fund shall provide free non-emergency medical and dental care, low cost or no-cost medications and access to free local social services to low income and uninsured adult individuals through a professional and independent Free Clinic provided by volunteers
Barry Community Trial Court Initiative Fund
This fund shall be used for the purposes of providing resources and assistance to adolescence, adults, and families to maintain public safety and promote the development of responsible citizens in Barry County.
Barry County Business & Entrepreneur Development Fund

The purpose of this fund is to support the business & entrepreneur development to benefit the Barry County Area

Barry County Farmland Preservation Fund
This fund shall support the preservation of farmland in Barry County.
Barry County Healthy Youth & Senior's Fund
The purpose of this fund is to promote health and prevention of health crisis for young & senior adults in Barry County
Barry County Special Needs Fund
This fund shall provide a fund to support projects for individuals of Barry County with special needs
Barry County Victim Services Unit
The fund shall be used for support of the charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes of Barry County Victim Services Unit.  From time to time, a portion of these fund may be used to provide fees assessed by a corrective services camp for lo
Barry County Youth Fair Improvement Fund
The fund shall be used for the provision, enhancement and/or maintenance of facilities for use by Barry County Youth at the Barry County Expo Center grounds, as recommended by this Fund's advisory committee and approved by the Barry Community Foundation
BCF Administrative Endowment
The fund supported the Hastings Capital Campaign, the remaining dollars were directed to the BCF Administrative costs.
BCF Management Endowment Fund
This fund provides operating dollars for the administration of the Barry Community Foundation.
BCF Project Team Up - Admin Fund
This fund shall support the administration of Project Team Up
BCF Youth Advisory Council Fund
This fund shall be used for the support of the charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes created by and for the youth of Barry County.
BCUW - Homelessness Prevention Fund
This fund shall support of efforts to prevent homelessness in Barry County
BCUW Florence Tyden Groos Memorial Fund for the Barry County United Way
The purpose of this fund is to provide distributions that support the Barry County United Way's administrative expenses.
Community Involvement Fund
This fund shall support projects to build community and strengthen the capacity of organizations working together.
Donor Advised #2
The purpose of this fund is to match dollars deposited the Barry County Conservancy Fund 100%.  
Friends of the Hastings Public Library Fund
The fund shall be used for support of the charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes of the Hastings Public Library and its affiliated agencies.
Gerald R. Ford Council Boy Scouts of America Endowment Fund
This fund's purpose is to promote Boy Scout activities in Barry County.
Groos Family Fund
This fund provides funding to improve the quality of education in Barry County.  All grants will be consistent with the purposes and guidelines of the Foundation's general grant making policies
Hastings Elks Lodge 1965 Charitable Fund
The purpose of this fund is to support the charitable grantmaking programs of the Hastings Elks Lodge -
Hastings Elks Lodge 1965 Youth Activities Fund
The purpose of this fund is to support the charitable activities of the Hastings Elks Lodge 1965 that support Youth, i.d., hoop shoot competition, scholarships
Hastings Elks Lodge Kids Christmas & Pumpking Patch Fund
The Fund shall be used for support of the Kids Christmas and Pumpkin Patch Programs and other future programs that impact handicapped and/or needy children within the service area of the Hastings Elks Lodge 1965.
Hastings Junior Chamber of Commerce Fund
This fund is for the Hastings Junior Chamber of Commerce - providing leadership through community service for people between the ages of 21 & 40
Helping Hands Fund
The purpose of this fund is to assist families and individuals experiencing economic distress
HomeTown Partnership Fund
This fund shall provide funds that support activities toward economic development including, but not limited to, entrepreneurship, Youth Development, Building Charitable Assets for Barry County and Leadership development for our residents.
Jim Jensen Memorial Fund
The purpose of this fund is to support grantmaking of the Youth Advisory Council of Barry County
Kids At Heart - CASA for Kids Inc., Barry/Eaton County Fund
The fund shall be used for support of the charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes of CASA for Kids, Inc, Barry/Eaton County and its affiliated agencies, as determined from time to time by the Foundation.
Louise Ann Stockham Memorial Fund
This fund shall house a collection of Barry County Artists for display in county non-profits, with priority given to Pennock Hospital
Lydia Gettys Memorial Fund for the 4-H
This fund shall benefit the Barry County and  Kalamazoo County 4-H clubs.  51% of annual spending allowed to be paid to the Barry County 4-H Advisory Council and 49% to be paid to the Kalamazoo County 4-H Advisory Council to assist in whatever way they need
Maple Valley "For Our Kids" Fund
The purpose of this fund is to raise funds for the benefit of youth in the Maple Valley community, beginning with the designation of monies toward creation of and maintenance for a skate park in the Village of Nashville, and thereafter as the Advisory committee finds appropriate
Orangeville Community Outreach Fund
This fund is dedicated to uplifting the quality of life for the citizens of Orangeville and its surrounding areas.
Roger Milo Shaw Memorial Fund to benefit St. Rose School
The distribution of income, subject to an appropriate spending rule, will support the educational purposes of St. Rose of Lima School in Hastings.
Southwest Michigan land Conservancy Land Conservation & Stewardship Fund
This fund's purpose is to receive and administers funds to be used for charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes of the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy in Barry County.
TAC Ethel Denton Groos Memorial Fund for the Thornapple Arts Council
This fund shall provide a permanent funding stream for the Thornapple Arts Council in memory of Ethel Denton Groos, who loved and cultivated the arts.
TAEF - Memorial Park Bench Fund
This fund's purpose is to build a permanent park bench in the memory of Mr. Douglas Perry & Mr. William McKeown along the Paul Henry Thornapple Trail.
TAEF - Richard  & Eric Lee Reyff Memorial Fund
This fund shall support the summer activities of Learning disabled students of the Barry Intermediate School District or The Thornapple Kellogg School District
TAEF - Thornapple Kellogg Public Library
This fund's purpose is to support the Thornapple Kellogg public side of the school and community Library

 

   
Barry Community Foundation. 629 W. State Street. Suite 201. Hastings, MI 49058. 269-945-0526