The Dyer-Ives Foundation is a private charitable organization supporting various community needs in arts, culture and quality of life in neighborhoods.
02/26/2015
Only a few more days to submit your poem for the 47th Annual Poetry Competition!
47th Annual Kent County Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition | Dyer Ives Foundation Mark Doty has published eight books of poems, including FIRE TO FIRE: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins), which won the National Book Award for poetry in 2008. He has also published five volume of nonfiction prose, most recently THE ART OF DESCRIPTION: World into Word (Graywolf), a handbook for…
Check out our recent grants page to see the exciting projects we are supporting!
01/09/2015
Poet Mark Doty to Judge 47th Annual Dyer-Ives Kent County Poetry Competition!
47th Annual Kent County Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition with MARK DOTY as the National Judge | The... Accepting poems by Kent County residents and students: FEBRUARY 1st - MARCH 1st, 2015 $900 in prizes, publication in VOICES--with Mark Doty's comments on winning poems. Divisions: K-8th grade, high school - college, graduate - adult. Check website for guidelines: www.dyer-ives.org.
10/24/2014
The Grantsmanship Center training at Blue35GR is wrapping up this week with proposal reviews. The group breaks out into teams and writes a full proposal directly applying the information they learned. Then the class reviews all the proposals and provides helpful feedback.
10/21/2014
We are excited to be hosting the The Grantsmanship Center all week at Blue35GR for a training with community partners on program planning and proposal development.
07/15/2013
The Dyer-Ives Foundation hosted a two part conversation in June 2013 to discuss the future of sustaining neighborhood work.
"If today’s strategic grantmakers want to achieve real results, they must reconsider philanthropic strategy through a social justice lens."
Dyer-Ives Foundation awards totaling $200,000 to NE, SE, SW and city-wide community impact work ...
Grandville Ave (north) planning - $50,000
Child Discovery Center greenspace - $50,000
Coit Avenue Gateway to NOBL - $50,000
Bike Safety Campaign - $50,000
Congratulations to all involved in the collaborations moving 4 great projects forward!
From Policy Link today:
Inclusion Fuels Regional Prosperity
Metro regions do best economically when they have low levels of racial segregation and high numbers of immigrants and minority-owned businesses. That’s the conclusion of a new study by Fund for Our Economic Future, which also warns that job creation alone, without inclusiveness, may lead to greater inequality and lower per capita incomes.
http://www.futurefundneo.org/~/media/13076_FUND_WMM_0503_SinglePages.ashx
From pets to planning to combating payday lenders and more ...
May 15, 2013 Dyer-Ives Foundation awards to several community-based projects, all innovative, all valuable -
West MI Animal Welfare Network - $5,000
Next Step of West MI - $31,000
Healthy Homes Coalition - $38,200
East Hills Council of Neighbors - $43,230
ICCF - $50,000
Congratulations to each of these organizations as they continue to add value to neighborhood quality of life !!
04/11/2013
How Housing Matters Survey Finds American Attitudes Transformed by Housing Crisis, Changes in Lifest After decades of equating homeownership with the American Dream, post-housing crisis realism about the risks and rewards of owning a home have led to greater support for rental housing and a more balanced approach in national housing policy, according to a new survey of housing attitudes released to...