During a powerful evening of poetry, music, and storytelling, OutFront Kalamazoo launched the Gender-Affirming Care Fund, a community-driven initiative to expand access to life-saving healthcare for trans and nonbinary residents of Kalamazoo County.
Join the Marian E. Burch Adult Day Care & Rehabilitation Center for a thrilling night of mystery and masquerade, all to support compassionate care and vital services for aging adults and their caregivers in Calhoun County.
Invasive plants threaten Michigan’s ecosystems, but the Spot and Stop program in Kalamazoo, Calhoun, and Barry counties empowers residents to fight back through community action and tech tools.
The conversion of a former hotel on Kilgore Road into an 80-unit shelter where unhoused families can receive support as they transition back to permanent housing is urgent, local housing officials say. And work is expected to get underway soon to move the project forward in hopes of housing some families by the end of the year.
"A Recipe for Abundance" is a free community event in Kalamazoo using art, food, and music to inspire connection, care, and local resilience.
The City of Kalamazoo has put together conceptual plans that would encourage143 to 200 homes on the nearly 15-acre lot that was once home to the former Health and Human Services building. Soon, the Edison Neighborhood will be weighing in on the idea.
Uproot Market and Eatery, Battle Creek’s first community-owned food co-op, is set to open this fall, aiming to provide fresh, local, and affordable food to underserved neighborhoods while fostering community ownership and food equity.
“We need to start thinking of wildlife, particularly urban wildlife, as native, indigenous to the land that we developed. As such, we need to learn how to coexist in a way that we don’t feel like they’re encroaching on us, but rather that we’re encroaching on their habitat."
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital has been recognized for significantly reducing its cesarean section rate—placing it among Michigan’s top hospitals—through targeted initiatives aimed at improving maternal care and addressing health disparities.
People often think of child care as a women's or a mother's issue. However, access to affordable, reliable, high quality child care equally benefits fathers.
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