The mission focuses on addressing community needs across Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties. Through a variety of endowments, they aim to support philanthropic approaches to meeting basic needs, promoting self-sufficiency, and helping individuals achieve independence across these regions.
This grant program aims to meet community needs across Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties through a variety of grant opportunities available in the Fall. Applicants can address these needs with one common grant application submitted to several different Endowments. Specifically, the Grand Traverse Families in Action for Youth Endowment focuses on funding programs that assist Traverse City youth in avoiding substance abuse and violence, maintaining the mission and vision of the original Grand Traverse Families in Action organization established in 2000.