In order to address the housing shortage in Grand Rapids, the city and surrounding entities are looking carefully at increasing accessibility and affordability of housing. One local company, InnovaLab is quickly adding to the number of housing units, with cost-efficient, quick-build modular homes.
The Grand Haven-based Momentum Center's Barbara Lee VanHorssen has been chosen as a "Community Influencer." She and 50 other influencers from across the state will help officials better understand social determinants of health from a grass roots level.
The Loutit District Library's Brooks Media Center received $30,000 from the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation, part of $232,000 in Community Impact Grants.
Disability Inclusion Editor Lucia Rios will join other disability advocates for a forum on Accessibility in the Workplace: Going Beyond Compliance. The Oct. 26 event is hosted by WMPRSA in partnership with Special Olympics Michgian and DAKC.
The annual Michigan Green Communities Challenge encourages communities to participate and also measures their sustainability efforts. This was the first year Fennville participated in the challenge, after hearing about it from the Michigan Municipal League.
Lower income Allegan County residents who have benefited from energy retrofits to their homes have found the effects extend beyond their energy bill and into their health.
West Ottawa High School senior Isabel Shepard is in New York City this week, competing for the title of National Boys and Girls Youth of the Year. She talks about what the year-long leadership program has meant to her.
An Affordable Housing Program grant from Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis allowed Dogwood Community Development to complete Shelby Trails apartments.
A growing partnership model between community foundations and nonprofit lenders is expanding investment power in Michigan's small businesses.
Hudsonville resident Natalie Frias has made it her life’s mission to spread awareness of the dangers of kidney disease and the importance of becoming an organ donor. Her ArtPrize piece is inspired by her hope for a cure.
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