The Community Foundation aims to improve the quality of life in Newaygo County through strategic focus on education, poverty reduction, and community and economic development. By setting long-term goals like increasing education levels, lowering poverty rates, and maintaining low unemployment rates, the foundation seeks to foster a focused community effort towards generational change, requiring collaboration and support for a robust nonprofit infrastructure.
The Amazing X Charitable Trust, established by the Gerber family in 1978, aims to support residents of varying abilities and address general charitable needs in the community. It focuses on projects or programs that serve people of varying abilities, address general charitable needs, and are innovative, collaborative, with a significant, measurable impact.