Collaboration seeks to reduce opioid overdoses throughout Michigan
The Grand Rapids Red Project and NEXT Distro have collaborated to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths across Michigan through free online training and mail-order naloxone.
Lowell
This bedroom community offers a vintage small town lifestyle within a 20 minute drive of downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan's second largest economic and cultural center. No wonder it's billed as "the next place to be." Here's your guide to Lowell:
Vaccination effort spurs massive collaboration between Kent County and local health care providers
The Kent County Health Department and local health care providers are collaborating on what may be the biggest inter-organizational vaccination effort in Michigan’s history.
Kent County COVID-19 Grants help college students in need succeed
Kent County Non-Profit Organization COVID-19 Grant Fund awards to Grand Rapids Community College and West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology will help college students.
COVID-19’s financial impacts extend beyond food and housing: Kent County grants are helping
Many income-challenged Kent County residents are covering the expenses of hygiene essentials with help from the Kent County Nonprofit Organization Grant Fund.
COVID-19 Grant Fund shares $9.5 mil. in federal dollars with county nonprofits
The Kent County Non-Profit Organization COVID-19 Grant Fund is distributing $9.5 million in federal CARES Act dollars to local nonprofit and human service organizations, including Arts in Motion.
Take a hike: Ten favorite West Michigan trails to explore this season
As the weather improves, the hiking scene in West Michigan heats up, with hidden urban paths, colorful trails through the woods, and plenty of day trips offering a welcome respite. Rapid Growth gives you ten hikes to try, so tie your boots and get ready to see the city from a new vantage point.
Veteran bike mechanic has Common Bond with cyclists
Bob Hammond has launched his dream business, Common Bond Mobile Bike Shop, which serves bicyclists anywhere throughout the Greater Grand Rapids area.
10 years and a whole lot of laughs later: LaughFest celebrates a milestone
2020 marks the 10th anniversary of LaughFest, a Gilda's Club Grand Rapids festival that has generated over $2 million in proceeds for the nonprofit, and facilitated open and honest conversation, community support, and above all, laughter when patients and their families need it most.
Workshop launches Absolutely Accessible Kent Campaign: Paralympian architect facilitates workshop
Paralympian and universal design architect, Ileana Rodriguez, to facilitate workshop, present keynote at DAKC April 18 workshop and luncheon that launches its Absolutely Accessible Kent Campaign.
City of Grand Rapids honored with 2018 Invest in Ability Award
Disability Advocates of Kent County (DAKC) awarded the City of Grand Rapids its 2018 Invest in Ability Award recognizing an entity that has advanced and improved the lives of local people with disabilities.
