Devos Foundation News Today

After 54 years, Grand Rapids' Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation will be sunsetting.

The Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, once a dream for Fred and Lena Meijer, opened in Grand Rapids nearly three decades ago. But, at the time, something was missing.

"Each child has a special gift, and our role is to inspire them to be the heroes in their own hero’s journey,” Jeff Sandefer says.

And the man who got it there is not, as he likes to claim, an iconoclastic one-person organization.

The mission of the Orlando Science Center is to inspire science learning for life and to eliminate barriers to STEM education. That’s why at the beginning of this school year, OSC and the city of Orlando began the Neighborhood Science program.

The Grand Rapids Public Library has been awarded grants to support its Hotspot Lending Program along with cultural programming.