- 989-435-4104
- 106 Tonkin Street Beaverton, MI 48612
The Beaverton Activity Center has created an Endowment Fund through the Midland Area Community Foundation (MACF) to secure funds that will be available for future operations.
Money donated to the BAC operating fund will be used for the day-to-day operations of the facility.
Each of us has responsibility for tomorrow.
Each of us has the opportunity to give back and set a path for those who will follow, just as those who came before have done for us.
Beaverton Activity Center has put the community on a progressive path, and we need your support to continue the momentum! As we strive to build the BAC Endowment Fund that we established through MACF, our goal is to grow the fund to $1 million which would generate annual support of at least $50,000 for Beaverton Activity Center operations. This fund may also be used to stimulate other community endeavors that match our mission.
You will make a positive, long-lasting impact with a donation to your choice of two funds that fulfill different purposes:
• BAC Endowment Fund will make funds available for long-term sustainability.
• BAC General Fund supports operations, improvements and building maintenance.
Make your check payable to:
Beaverton Activity Center Endowment Fund
Send your mail to:
Beaverton Activity Center, 106 Tonkin Street, Beaverton, MI 48612
Use your credit card to donate online:
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All donors to the Beaverton Activity Center will be recognized for their cumulative donations each year in a permanent display:
The Beaverton Activity Center is a nonprofit organization registered and approved by the IRS so your donation is tax deductible to the extent that the law allows. Our IRS approval letter as a 501(c)(3) is below.
In 2011, a diverse group of local people came together and dreamed of a center that could serve as the hub of activities for our community.
Over the next four years that dream culminated in the Grand Opening of the Beaverton Activity Center on October 17, 2015.
The following year, we met with success beyond our wildest dreams – the City of Beaverton nominated the BAC for Michigan Municipal League’s statewide “Community Excellence Award,” and we won! Our success is due in no small part to ongoing efforts and partnerships with the Beaverton Branch of the Gladwin County District Library, MidMichigan Health, Mid-Michigan Community Action Agency, Beaverton Rural Schools and, of course, our treasured Volunteers and enthusiastic participants of all ages.
We appreciate your continued support and hope that you’ve found great joy in the use of the Beaverton Activity Center, and in knowing that this community gem has been revitalized, will be kept useful and vibrant, and will continue to grow for future generations to enjoy.
We look forward to many more successful years so we have established an endowed fund to provide support for improvements and building maintenance projects. For example, in the first year of operation, we held many gym events and stage performances that we know could have been enhanced with an upgrade to the speaker system, the installation of sound-absorbing panels and improved stage lighting.
We respectfully ask you to consider the Beaverton Activity Center in your annual giving of outright cash gifts, memorial gifts honoring friends and loved ones, and long-term planned giving.
The Beaverton Activity Center Endowment Fund, a fund of the Gladwin County Community Foundation (GCCF), has been established to accept tax-deductible donations. Memorial gifts, outright cash gifts and long-term planned giving will be used for future improvement projects and to provide long-term sustainability for the BAC.
Beaverton Activity Center
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to