Partners in Progress | Issue 2 | 2016

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partners in progress kalamazoo community foundation

2016

partnering with you to create a community where every person can reach full potential

Participants in Eastside Youth Strong’s Summer 2015 Eastside Arts and Science Experiential Learning (EASEL) program.

engaging with donors to maximize your impact Our community — Kalamazoo County

for co-investment and broaden the base

Eastside Youth Strong (formerly

— is a special place. We are working to

of your support. Even if they choose not

Kalamazoo Center for Youth and

making it a place where every person can

to support one of the opportunities we

Community), Kalamazoo Nature

reach full potential and we consider you

share, they have expressed that they

Center, Kalamazoo Valley Habitat for

a partner in that. We also consider donors

value simply learning more about the

Humanity, Peace House, Southwest

to be partners and actively engage with

work of local nonprofits.

Michigan Land Conservancy and

them to maximize your organization’s impact, offering them opportunities to engage with you and co-invest in your efforts to make this community even better than it already is. One of the ways we do this is by presenting donors with opportunities

We also provide opportunities to meet you in person and hear about your work first-hand.

St. Mary’s Catholic Church — are making an impact in Kalamazoo’s Eastside neighborhood. Each has a different focus and personality, but are linked by their

Recently almost 50 donors took

work in the Eastside neighborhood and

advantage of an opportunity we offered

collaborations that enhance and

to learn how seven organizations — Eastside Neighborhood Association,

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