The Morris Community Foundation seeks to provide vision for Morris and the surrounding area in order to preserve and enhance our quality of life. The Foundation will do this by providing leadership to identify important needs, concerns, and opportunities; by using our grantmaking to respond to those needs and effect change; by partnering with local not-for-profit organizations to strengthen their abilities to serve our citizens; and by partnering with donors to receive and manage funds that will support the community for generations to come.
Stephanie Kessler, Executive Director of Illinois Valley Industries, was on “People Are Talking” a week or so ago and I heard her say: “Peers ask...more
It's pretty exciting when your husband comes home at 9 p.m. at night and hands you a $50,000 check. It was even more exciting to know that it's for a new fund at the Foundation: the John Martin...more
Members include such agencies as Grundy County P.A.D.S., We Care, Grundy County Habitat for Humanity, Community Nutrition, Veterans Assistance Commission, Community Foundation of Grundy County and...more
Community Foundation of Grundy County has announced it is now accepting grant applications for funding in 2018. Not-for-profit organizations providing services in Grundy County are welcome to submit...more
When Hannah Davis traveled to China to teach English, she noticed how Chinese workers and farmers were often sporting olive green army-style shoes. Those shoes served as her inspiration to create her own social enterprise, Bangs Shoes.