Event Details
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
8:00AM Doors open and breakfast available
8:30AM Program
Please join us Thursday, November 9th for the YMCA’s annual Hour of Impact event. During this breakfast event, we will showcase how community collaborators, conveners, and leaders like you have united to serve individuals and families through YMCA programs. The event will include a panel of community leaders and impact testimonials that highlight how gifts create access to wellness, nutrition, education, leadership, and childcare programming. You are invited to the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park for a celebration of stories and a call to support and serve individuals and households throughout West Michigan through YMCA programs that help create thriving futures for all.
Proceeds from the event provide for critical financial assistance support for members of our community.

Our 2023 Emcee, Maranda
Will you join us in creating transformational impact?
Our 2023 Panelists
Tasha Blackmon: President and Chief Executive Officer
Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Mich., Tasha Blackmon is a dynamic, collaborative leader, mentor and coach who brings more than 20 years of business operations experience to her role as President and Chief Executive Officer of Michigan’s largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Cherry Health provides integrated health care services to over 55,000 patients in Barry, Kent, Montcalm, Muskegon, Ottawa and Wayne counties.
During her 18 years with Cherry Health, Blackmon has championed health justice through aggressively disrupting healthcare disparities. Her experience comes from an operational perspective, having established high standards of care utilizing a health equity lens to treat an individual’s health needs holistically, rather than symptomatically. She has led numerous large-scale expansion and development projects and held six positions within Cherry Health before becoming CEO in 2018. As an accomplished and mission-minded leader, it is imperative to Tasha that our community is healthier, one patient at a time.
An eloquent and inspiring speaker, Tasha has a way of being heard on behalf of those who do not have voices, and for those whose voices have been silenced because of the barriers that they face. She is passionate and personally driven to ensure that all patients served in her home community, and surrounding areas, receive the highest quality of care.

Tasha Blackmon
Cherry Health
Tracie L. Coffman: Program Officer
Tracie Coffman is a program officer for Michigan, focused on Grand Rapids programs, at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan.
In this role, Coffman is responsible for identifying and nurturing opportunities for affecting positive systemic change within communities, and executing programming efforts that are aligned with overall organizational direction. She provides expertise in all aspects of the grantmaking process including evaluating grant proposals, conducting background research, preparation of funding documents, grant monitoring, driving community connections and providing grantee customer service. In this role, she also serves on the larger Michigan place‐based team, developing programming priorities and identifying and nurturing opportunities to affect positive change for children and families within the state.
Prior to joining the Kellogg Foundation, Coffman served as the director for Kent County’s Essential Needs Task Force (ENTF). In this position, she reported directly to the governance board and provided the overall administration and strategic direction for the ENTF. She also represented ENTF on the Kent County Board of Commissioners – Human Services Committee, Community Action Agency Advisory Board, FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program Board. Prior to this, she was the coordinator for the Michigan Foreclosure Task Force through CEDAM; she served as an adjunct professor at Grand Valley State University and was also a financial counseling program manager with Home Repair
Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Coffman received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.

Tracie Coffman
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Dennis Van Kampen: President and CEO of Mel Trotter Ministries
Dennis Van Kampen is the President and CEO of Mel Trotter Ministries (MTM). With over twenty years of servant-leadership experience, Dennis brings a wealth of leadership and insight to those he leads. Prior to joining MTM as the VP of Programs in 2012, he had a 17-year camp and retreat vocation—10 of those years leading at Camp Manitou-Lin resulting in his first Executive Director role. Additionally, Dennis pastored on staff within a church for 6 years, served as a reserve and party-time deputy sheriff for 15 years, and has taught as an adjunct faculty member at Cornerstone University. Dennis is known and appreciated for his visionary leadership and seeing the value and worth in all people, regardless of circumstances. He and his wife Kelly live in Rockford, Michigan and are proud parents of four young adult children.

Dennis Van Kampen
Mel Trotter Ministries
Thank you to Meijer for being our presenting partner!

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Stepping Stone Sponsor
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- ChoiceOne Bank
- CML Service Club
- Feyen Zylstra
- Grand Valley State University
- Lake Michigan Credit Union
- Litehouse Inc.
- Mika Meyers
- Nichols
- PNC Bank
- Tom and Dawn McDonald
- North Central Area Credit Union
- University of Michigan Health-West
- West Michigan Whitecaps
- Western Michigan University
Supporters
- Warner Norcross + Judd LLP