Tagged As Community Partnerships, Planning, and Research

The Community Education Cooperative’s Bucket Courses are weekly, 90-minute classes taught by Grinnell College faculty members at the Drake Community Library. These courses are free, open to the Grinnell community.

The Grinnell College Micro-Grant program provided funding for the Grinnell Historical Museum's Textile Preservation Project and the Stew Makerspace's equipment upgrade.

Among the many ways the College supports community education is through support of community-wide youth literacy initiatives. 

Over 250 participants engaged in the Grinnell College Golf Course Visioning Workshops this past summer. Over the course of two full days, these workshops sparked conversations, invited the sharing of history, and cultivated new ideas.

This December, Grinnell College awarded community mini-grants totaling $21,724 to three local initiatives and a fourth through the smaller donation grant program. Since 2002, the mini-grant program has directed over $528,000 to 209 community-driven initiatives. 

Tilly Woodward, curator of academic and community outreach, and Karen Neal, director of Drake Community Library, were honored by the Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation last month with the Spirit of Giving Award for “contagious enthusiasm.”  

In spring 2022, the Grinnell College Community Mini-Grant Program awarded the Grinnell Community Early Learning Center $2,824 to provide members of their leadership staff with the chance to learn about new techniques and methods of early learning. 

For the eleventh year since the event’s conception, Grinnell College’s Pioneer Bookshop will donate 10% of their December sales to support middle and high-school libraries in the Grinnell-Newburg Community School District. 

Grinnell College will stream Kevin Puts' “The Hours” on December 10 as part of the Met’s 2022-23 Live in HD season. 

Build a Better Grinnell 2030 (BABG 2030) has received a grant of $197,153 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Placemaking Innovation Challenge. These funds will support the mission of the BABG 2030 project: to identify and prioritize community needs as well as resources, assets, and partners to guide community development and quality-of-life improvement over the next decade.