YWCA is continuing to plan for the opening of the YWCA Edison Children’s Center, a 24-hour drop-in center that will provide affordable child care for infants to 3-year-olds as well as second- and third-shift childcare for children up to age 12.
“I just didn’t want to see teachers have to pay for things out of their own pockets,” Angee McCormick McCormick said. That's why she scaled up a project she started at Parkwood Elementary to cover the whole school district. The KPS Supply Closet.
The Battle Creek Community Foundation has a COVID-19 strategy that will increase the flexibility and responsiveness of BCCF and provide two additional opportunities for funding.
Have you heard about the tiny house initiative? Real brick and mortar affordable housing for people who need it.
The Board of Directors of Spectrum Health Lakeland in St. Joseph has approved an expanded strategy to address racial and ethnic health equity in southwest Michigan communities.
Kalamazoo is one of 14 sites in the nation where Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation work is ongoing. In these times of mass demonstrations in support of social justice and widespread calls for significant cultural change, TRHT is ready to support those leading the efforts.
When people of color direct how resources are invested, it can transform the lives of children and families in their community. That's the philosophy behind a recent grant to Communities of Color in Battle Creek.
RISE says its organization is about helping people in Battle Creek through traumatic times. Organizers say they saw a need in the community and we wanted to help. A food distribution program was the answer to that need.
"We are a community food bank and we will be there for the community." That's the message South Michigan Food Bank has for those in need.
The Heritage Community, the first senior care facility in Kalamazoo may have been the fastest to react to COVID-19 by creating an isolation unit in case residents might catch the virus and early measures to restrict visitors.
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