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The Keweenaw Community Foundation announces the Herman Gundlach Donor Advised Fund will support 30 non-profit organizations in 2024. On Friday the Keweenaw Community Foundation announced the Herman Gundlach Fund’s 2024 grant awards will split 56,000 dollars among 30 local non-profit organizations working in the Copper Country. The awards include 35,000 dollars specifically supporting local food pantries.
The Herman Gundlach Donor Advised Fund was established to cement the philanthropic legacy of Herman Gundlach who committed to a life of helping the Keweenaw Peninsula. The fund supports a variety of causes in the region including the Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter Home, Bay Cliff Health Camp, the Calumet Theatre Company, Copper Country Humane Society, the Dan Schmidt Gift of Music, the Keweenaw Family Resource Center, Let’s Eat Community Meals, Omega House, Simple Kindness for Youth, Up Kids and many others.
Gundlach’s daughter, Julie Gundlach says of her father he wouldn’t have considered himself a philanthropic person because generosity was a responsibility rooted in his central values. Those interested in learning more about the 56,000 dollars from the Herman Gundlach Donor Advised Fund supporting 30 non-profit organizations in the Keweenaw Peninsula can find more details below.
The following organizations received support from the fund:
- Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter
- Bay Cliff Health Camp
- BHK Child Development Board, Inc.
- Calumet Theatre Company
- Copper Country Angel Mission
- Copper Country Community Arts Council
- Copper Country Habitat for Humanity
- Copper Country Humane Society
- Copper Country Intermediate School District: Career and Technical Education Program
- Copper Country Suzuki Association
- Dan Schmitt Gift of Music and Education Fund
- Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes, Inc.
- Keweenaw Community Foundation – Joe Freed Empowerment Fund
- Keweenaw Family Resource Center
- Keweenaw Outdoor Recreation Coalition
- Keweenaw Random Acts of Community Kindness
- Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
- Let’s Eat Community Meals
- Let’s Rebuild Community
- Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly
- Omega House, Inc.
- Pine Mountain Music Festival, Inc.
- Saints Peter and Paul Lutheran Church
- Simple Kindness for Youth
- Swedetown Trails Club
- The Salvation Army Hancock
- U.P. Kids
