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Media Kit
We’re glad you’re here! This media kit is your go-to resource for sharing stories and news about the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation. Below, you’ll find downloadable logos, brand guidelines, messaging templates, and other helpful materials to support your communications.
Whether you're announcing a grant award, highlighting an event sponsorship, sharing an impact story, or mentioning us on social media, these tools are designed to make it easy to represent the Community Foundation accurately and effectively.
We appreciate your partnership in helping amplify the work we’re doing together to strengthen our region.
Logos & Usage
If you need to use our logo for your materials or marketing, select any of the options available below. Do not stretch, crop, or recolor the logos. If you need a different format or have questions, please reach out to our Communications Manager, Kristina Pepelko.
Social Media
When posting about your grant, partnership, or experience with the Community Foundation, please tag us—we’d love to see your story!
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Instagram: @gtr_communityfoundation
Sharing Your Grant Story
We encourage grant partners to share their grant award news in ways that best fit their audience and mission. Here are some options for where you can share the news:
- Website
- Newsletter
- Social media post
- Photo or video
- Printed material
- Event announcement or public acknowledgment
- Press release or media outreach
- Community presentation
Cross Promotion
The Community Foundation may share information about your grant in our communications, such as in our newsletter, press releases, donor updates, website, and social media. This may include impact stories, photos, videos, your organization’s logo, and other materials related to your grant.
Grant Award Acknowledgment Messaging
Refer to your grant award letter for how to acknowledge the support in donor listings or communications. The language below provides additional detail you may use. A variety of options are available, depending on the specific grant received.
- General Reference
“This project/initiative/funding was supported (or partially supported) by a grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation.”
- Community Funds Grants
“This project/initiative/funding was supported (or partially supported) by a Community Funds grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, designed to be flexible and responsive to a variety of community needs and causes.”
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Grants
“This project/initiative/funding was supported (or partially supported) by a diversity, equity, inclusion grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, made possible through the Foundation’s Endowment for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Diversity Equity Inclusion Fund.”
- Fall Grants
“This project was supported (or partially supported) by a fall grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, made possible through multiple cause-based endowments the Foundation stewards.”
- Quick Response Grants
“This project/initiative/funding was supported (or partially supported) by a Quick Response Grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, designed to meet urgent or unexpected community needs.”
- Traverse Area Public Schools Grants:
“This project/initiative/funding was supported (or partially supported) by a grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, through the TCAPS Academic Excellence Endowment (and/or) the Titan Excellence Fund Endowment.”
- Traverse City Track Club Endowment Grants
“This project/initiative/funding was supported (or partially supported) by a grant from the Traverse City Track Club Endowment at the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation.”
- Youth Endowment Grants
“This project/initiative/funding was supported (or partially supported) by a Youth Endowment grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, with funding decisions made by the Foundation’s Youth Advisory Councils.”
Press Release Messaging
Need help describing the Community Foundation or your grant award in your press release or materials? Use the sample language below to fit your needs. For a custom quote or additional support, please contact our Communications Manager, Kristina Pepelko.
- Community Foundation Bios
Full Version Bio
The Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation stewards community assets for lasting impact by investing in the people and places of Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau Counties as well as the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe. Established in 1992, the Community Foundation works to support healthy, resilient, thriving communities for all across the region by serving donor partners, awarding meaningful grants and scholarships, and participating in collaborative leadership efforts on important community issues. For more information, please visit GTRCF.org.
Short Version Bio
The Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation invests in the people and places of Antrim, Benzie, Grant Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau Counties as well as the Grand Traverse Band od Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Since 1992, the Community Foundation has worked to support a thriving region for all by supporting donor partners, awarding grants and scholarships, and collaborating on community priorities. Learn more at GTRCF.org.
- Grant Award Press Release Template
[Organization Logo]
Contact: [First Name] [Last Name]
[Contact Email] | [Contact Phone]
[Date to be sent]
[Insert Attention-Grabbing Headline about the Grant Award]
[City, State] — [Organization name] has received a [insert name of grant] from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation to support [brief description of the project, program, or initiative]. The grant, totaling [insert dollar amount], will help [describe the impact or purpose of the funding and who it will benefit].
“[Insert impact quote from organization leader about the importance of the grant],” said [name, title, organization name]. “[Second sentence with additional context].”
The [insert name of the grant] supports [brief description of the grant’s purpose or focus, e.g., urgent community needs, equity & inclusion initiatives, education, community programs, environmental impact, etc.]. This funding will allow [organization name] to [insert more detail about the program/project, its goals, and the community it serves].
“[Optional second quote from another leader, board member, or program participant],” added [name, title, organization name]. “[Second sentence with additional context].”
About [Organization Name]
[Insert your organization’s boilerplate—a short paragraph about your mission, work, and website.]
About the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation
The Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation stewards community assets for lasting impact by investing in the people and places of Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau Counties as well as the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe. Established in 1992, the Community Foundation works to support healthy, resilient, thriving communities for all across the region by serving donor partners, awarding meaningful grants and scholarships, and participating in collaborative leadership efforts on important community issues. For more information, please visit GTRCF.org.
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Promoting Your Organization's Endowment
If you have an organization endowment with us, we invite you to promote it as part of your fundraising and communications strategies to help drive both support and awareness. Use the resources below to share your endowment with your audience and to engage your donors in giving.
- Share Your Endowment with Your Audience
- Share how your organization’s endowment supports your mission.
- Add a short message about your endowment in newsletters, annual reports, on your website and on social media.
- Use real-life examples of how your endowment funding has made a difference.
- Highlight the benefits of having an endowment and why giving to it is important, such as that an endowment provides funding forever to your organization year-after-year and that an endowment lives on for your organization, supporting your organization’s mission, even as your staff or board may change.
- Ask your donors to support your endowment by sharing a donation link. Specific endowment donation pages can be found here using the search bar or by clicking “Additional Funds” at the bottom of the page.
- Engage Your Donors
- Host events or donor spotlights that celebrate endowment supporters.
- Share testimonials from donors who’ve contributed to your endowment.
- Share impact stories to motivate donors and show that their endowment contributions are making a difference.
Media Contact
For media inquiries or additional information, please contact our Communications Manager, Kristina Pepelko at kpepelko@gtrcf.org or 231.935.4066 ext.109.