‘Model could scale statewide’: Gentex builds nature-based daycare
Gentex partners with ODC to launch a 43,000-square-foot, nature-based preschool, tackling West Michigan’s childcare shortage and inspiring statewide replication.
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Summer career program expands to serve more youth
The West Michigan Works! six-week paid summer program offers teens across seven counties real-world job experience, skills training, and career exploration. Applications are open now through May 5.
3-county United Way merger strengthens regional collaboration
The recent merger of Heart of West Michigan United Way and United Way of Ottawa and Allegan Counties is expected to streamline fundraising requests for its 80 community partners while reducing the nonprofit’s expenses.
GROW is now Grow: New name reflects long-standing organization’s evolution
Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women, GROW is rebranding as Grow because it serves all genders across nine West Michigan counties.
Active Commute Week: Walk, Roll + Ride
It’s Active. Commute Week in West Michigan, a celebration of cleaner, healthier, less congestion-causing transportation. The Rapid’s West Michigan Rideshare program, West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum (WMSBF) and participating businesses are encouraging people to walk, bike, scooter, carpool or take the bus to get where they want to go from June 16 to 23
The Home Accessibility Center will help people with disabilities imagine possibilities
The Home Accessibility Center will serve as a hands-on test space where people living with disabilities can explore adaptive possibilities.
Green Gavel scoring system rates Michigan’s Supreme Court’s environmental impacts
Michigan League of Conservation Voters online Green Gavels' tool rates Michigan Supreme Court justices’ decisions on environmental issues.
Humane Society of West Michigan collaborates in National Shelter Alliance to protect pets
As part of a National Shelter Alliance collaboration with BISSELL Pet Foundation, the Humane Society of West Michigan will further its work of helping shelters nationwide that have been overwhelmed by natural disasters and hoarding incidents.
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.
Summit brings LGBTQIA+ youth together to create a more tolerant tomorrow
On Saturday, March 12, the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health (MOASH) hosts a statewide virtual conference, Building a Movement for Michigan (BAMM) Pride Summit that will unite LGBTQIA+ middle and high school youth from the Greater Grand Rapids area and across the state to learn, find support, and feel affirmation that they may not experience in their daily lives.
