Eleven times a day someone in Kent County is abused in domestic violence, and almost always the victim is a woman and a mother. Injured and terrified, these women are desperate for a safe place to go with their children. Enter the YWCA with a 24-hour hotline, a warm bed, … More YWCA Women’s Shelter Redone and Renamed »
Gift to establish the nation’s first collegiate economicology program as envisioned by Peter Wege Aquinas College and the Aquinas College Foundation today announced a $2.5 million gift from the Wege Foundation to establish the first-ever economicology program at the collegiate level in the nation; which the late Peter Wege envisioned … More THE AQUINAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES $2.5 MILLION GIFT FROM WEGE FOUNDATION »
In 2009 Blandford Nature Center had to reinvent itself from a tax-payer funded organization into an independent non-profit with Annoesjka Steinman as the first president. Annoesjka proved up to the new challenge by successfully carrying on the Center’s long-time mission as an educational wildlife mecca, but on a whole new … More Blandford’s New CEO: a Story of Friendship and Mentoring »
By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk | jkaczmarczyk@mlive.com GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Philanthropist Peter Wege has bestowed $1 million on the Grand Rapids Symphony. Wege, who underwrote the orchestra’s Grammy Award-nominated album, “Inventions & Alchemy,” plus its accompanying DVD featuring harpist Deborah Henson-Conant, bequeathed the gift from his personal estate. The former chairman of … More Peter Wege’s estate gives $1 million gift for Grand Rapids Symphony’s endowment »
The 10th Conference was held September 9-11, 2014, in the city where HOW was born: Grand Rapids, Michigan. In May 2004, the late Peter M. Wege turned his dream for saving the five Great Lakes into action when he invited seventy-plus national experts in environmental policy, science, and economics to … More HOW Conference Comes Home Ten Years Later »
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) – The St. Cecilia Music Center announced Monday they’ve received a $1 million endowment from the Estate of Peter M. Wege. Wege died in June. Last week, the Grand Rapids Ballet also announced they had received $1 million from Wege’s estate. St. Cecilia says they plan to … More $1 Million Gift to St. Cecilia Music Center »
America’s Public schools are the entry point for success, and teachers lead the way. But they can’t do it alone. Students are with them only seven hours a day during the week. Parents take over the teaching the rest of the time. And every educational study ever conducted on how … More LITERACY CENTER NEEDS YOU »
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Peter M. Wege lived to see his hopes and dreams come true. The Grand Rapids philanthropist lived to be 94 years old, so he had the time. The retired chairman of Steelcase, Inc., also had the money. The Wege Foundation’s $20 million gift – the largest, … More Community remembers favorite son, Peter Wege »
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Peter Melvin Wege loved giving away his money. And give it away he did — millions of dollars in grants large and small — a fortune he had amassed as the former chairman and largest stockholder of Steelcase, Inc., the office furniture company his father founded. Wege, … More Retired Steelcase chairman, philanthropist Peter Wege dies at 94 »
