Basic Needs
A healthy community creates a compassionate social, economic, and political environment where people have full opportunities to meet basic needs for themselves and their families, to build assets, and to advance themselves.
Starting Over for Success Fund
Starting Over for Success (S.O.S) is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization established in 2008 to provide services to the ex-offender population in Barry and adjoining counties in the State of Michigan. SOS assists this population in rebuilding their lives through relevant job training, gainful employment, transportation and access to community resources. Mission: “Rebuilding people and communities - one individual at a time.…
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Steve & Sharon Jacobs Memorial Fund
This fund provide funds for Barry County Commission on Aging, the Barry County Animal Shelter for spay and neuter programs, food, and blankets for animals throughout Barry County. Steve and Sharon Jacobs had a storybook marriage. He was the son of a newspaper publisher in Hastings, and she was the daughter of a newpaper publisher in Freeport. They loved animals…
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