Programs and Services - YWCA West Central Michigan
Programs and Services - YWCA West Central Michigan
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<strong>YWCA</strong> Giving Circles<br />
Grace Dyer Hunting Circle<br />
($5000+)<br />
Anonymous<br />
Fifth Third Bank<br />
Fox 17 Charities Fund<br />
GVSU Women’s Center<br />
Louis & Helen Padnos Foundation<br />
Georgia T. Nelson<br />
Nokomis Foundation<br />
Sebastian Foundation<br />
Trim Quest<br />
Helen J. Claytor Circle<br />
($1000-$4,999)<br />
Bank One<br />
Caroline D. Blinkhorn<br />
The Blodgett Foundation<br />
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of MI<br />
Brigade Fire Protection, Inc.<br />
Susan K. Broman<br />
Calvin College<br />
Cascade Engineering<br />
City of Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids -EEO Office<br />
Cloud 9 Foundation<br />
Cornerstone University<br />
Davenport University<br />
Deloitte & Touche, LLP<br />
Elizabeth G. Dole<br />
GVSU Women’s Center<br />
Margaret E. (Meg) Goebel<br />
Marjorie B. Goebel<br />
Goodwill Industries<br />
The <strong>YWCA</strong> of Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids is pleased to recognize six women whose active participation<br />
in our organization helped further the <strong>YWCA</strong>’s mission <strong>and</strong> strengthened<br />
our community. It is because of their exceptional contributions that they have been<br />
honored as the namesakes of the <strong>YWCA</strong>’s giving circles which pay tribute to today’s<br />
generous <strong>YWCA</strong> supporters.<br />
As one of the <strong>YWCA</strong>’s early leaders, Grace Dyer Hunting led the capital campaign in<br />
the early 1920s to build our current Sheldon Boulevard facility. Aided by her fundraising<br />
committee, $567,000 was raised in just seven days. A civil rights leader, Helen<br />
Claytor blazed the trail for later generations when she became board president of the<br />
<strong>YWCA</strong> of Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids in the late 1940s <strong>and</strong> again in the mid-sixties when she assumed<br />
the position of board president of the <strong>YWCA</strong> of the USA. Educator, attorney,<br />
social activist <strong>and</strong> later c<strong>and</strong>idate for the Fifth Congressional District, the <strong>YWCA</strong> was<br />
well served by Jean McKee who led the organization as its board president during the<br />
tumultuous times following the local race riots in 1967 <strong>and</strong> 1968. Frances Rutherford,<br />
the first female city physician in the U.S., directed her commitment to public health<br />
toward the establishment of the <strong>YWCA</strong>’s predecessor organization – the Women’s<br />
Gymnasium <strong>and</strong> Noon Rest – in the late nineteenth century. Rutherford <strong>and</strong> others,<br />
including Emma Wanty whose extraordinary fundraising ability <strong>and</strong> active leadership<br />
in numerous offices, helped establish the <strong>YWCA</strong> <strong>and</strong> strengthened its position as an<br />
important community resource. One of the <strong>YWCA</strong> of Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids’ earliest African<br />
American volunteers in the 1940’s, Loney Clinton Gordon played a leading role in the<br />
research that led to the discovery of the Whooping Cough vaccine. Like her <strong>YWCA</strong><br />
peers, her contributions extend well beyond our organization <strong>and</strong> even our local community.<br />
Today, we see further, because it is on their shoulders that we st<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Community Gifts <strong>and</strong> Donors<br />
FY 2003-04<br />
Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids Area<br />
Chamber of Commerce<br />
Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids Center For<br />
Ecumenism (GRACE)<br />
Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids Community College<br />
The Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids Press<br />
Donald & Doris Griffith Foundation<br />
HHS, Health Options, Inc.<br />
Jeffrey <strong>and</strong> Nancy Hoag<br />
Ann B. Hoek<br />
Jeannie Hosey <strong>and</strong> Tony Travis<br />
John Hunting<br />
Huntington National Bank<br />
Kyle <strong>and</strong> Win Irwin<br />
Irwin Seating Company<br />
Irwin Union Bank<br />
Ingrid A. Jensen<br />
Keeler Foundation<br />
Keller Foundation<br />
Elsa L. Kerr<br />
Birgit M. Klohs<br />
Law, Weathers & Richardson<br />
Judith B. Lloyd<br />
Theresa <strong>and</strong> Todd Mairn<br />
Marilyn F. Martin<br />
Mayflower Congregational Church<br />
Margaret A. McCrystal<br />
Mercantile Bank of <strong>West</strong> <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
Metropolitan Hospital/MetroHealth<br />
Bonnie K. Miller<br />
Miller, Johnson, Snell, &<br />
Cummiskey PLC<br />
Lynda M. Nance<br />
Norris, Perne & French, LLP<br />
Pamela K. Olsen<br />
Preferred Benefits, Inc.<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers<br />
Rapistan Employee Charitable<br />
Association<br />
Celia Said<br />
Saint Mary’s Health Care<br />
The Samaritan Foundation<br />
Nancy Skinner <strong>and</strong> Associates<br />
The Honorable Sara J. Smolenski<br />
Spectrum Health<br />
Spirit Dreams<br />
St<strong>and</strong>ard Federal Bank-G.R. HQ<br />
Subsidiary of ABN AMRO<br />
Steelcase Inc.<br />
Nellie Stevens Trust<br />
Sunshine Lady Foundation, Inc.<br />
Target Stores<br />
Tazzia Lawn Care<br />
TriStar Fire Protection, Inc.<br />
Mary Tuuk<br />
United Bank of <strong>Michigan</strong><br />
Michelle L. VanDyke<br />
Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt,<br />
& Howlett, LLP<br />
Warner Norcross & Judd LLP<br />
Wege Foundation<br />
<strong>West</strong> MI Marketing Association<br />
<strong>West</strong>minster Presbyterian Church<br />
Kate & Richard Wolters Foundation<br />
Wolverine World Wide, Inc.<br />
WOOD TV8<br />
Women Lawyers Association of<br />
<strong>Michigan</strong> - <strong>West</strong>ern Region<br />
YMCA of Greater Gr<strong>and</strong> Rapids<br />
Jean McKee – Presidents’ Circle<br />
($500 - $999)<br />
Ethel A. Ackerson<br />
Thomas K. Aley<br />
Aquinas College<br />
Debra Ann Bailey<br />
Betten Imports, LLC<br />
Margaret W. Bishop<br />
Tammy L. Bohen<br />
Margaret M. Bosscher<br />
Susan K. Brennan<br />
Karen Bunting<br />
Burnham Sullivan <strong>and</strong> Associates<br />
The Campbell Group<br />
Canteen <strong>Services</strong>, Inc.<br />
John E. Carey<br />
Mr. <strong>and</strong> Mrs. Kevin J. Carlson<br />
Jack C. Clary<br />
Guadalupe Contreras<br />
Carol A. Crawford<br />
The Currie Foundation<br />
Mary DeYoung<br />
Deborah L. Deneen<br />
Dodds Trust<br />
Julie K. Duisterhof <strong>and</strong><br />
R<strong>and</strong>all S. Damstra<br />
Trena R. Dulaney<br />
Evelyn K. Eister<br />
Linda J. Emperor<br />
First Congregational Church<br />
UCC - Lowell<br />
Fountain Street Church<br />
Mary Caroline Frey & Jim McKay
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