Leadership
Celebrating the Youth of the Year 2023
by (bgcgrandrapids)
Submitted 03-24-2023 under NONPROFITS
On Wednesday, March 8th, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids held their highly anticipated annual Youth of the Year Luncheon, presented by Lake Michigan Credit Union, at the Steil Club. The event was a celebration of our community’...
Everyday Community Leaders
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 01-30-2023 under NONPROFITS
“I think of the problems that we have in society – if we want them to change, we have to be the ones to change them. It’s not like someone else is going to change things for you.” Every year, dozens of residents are...
Driving Neighborhood Change via "Building Leaders, Building Communities"
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 03-28-2022 under NONPROFITS
“We need leaders everywhere; residents are positioned to make the decisions that impact their lives,” shares Jeremy DeRoo, a longtime student of resident leadership. This month, several Roosevelt Park neighborhood leaders are...
Open the Door: Resident leaders take Los Angeles
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 11-29-2017 under NONPROFITS
The NeighborWorks Community Leadership Institute (CLI) is an invitation-only, three-day training event that aims to strengthen the voices and skills of community, resident and volunteer leaders by helping to share best practices and solutions to...
'Championing female leaders of color in West Michigan'
by (Elizabeth Roger...)
Submitted 03-17-2017 under NEWS
Shannon Cohen and Patricia Sosa VerDuin began having conversations about the representation of women of color in leadership in the news while they got to know each other as W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellows. Cohen is the...
City announces new Neighborhood Match Fund
by (Elizabeth Roger...)
Submitted 03-09-2017 under NEWS
At the third annual Grand Rapids Neighborhood Summit on Saturday, March 4, 2017, the City of Grand Rapids announced its new Neighborhood Match Fund. The fund is intended to be an easily accessible contract citizens can make with the City in order to...
Shared leadership enhances trust, utilizes skills
by (Access of West ...)
Submitted 12-02-2016 under NONPROFITS
Shared leadership is an innovative, modern twist on traditional organizational structure that turns a strict hierarchy on its end. Co-Executive Directors Emma Garcia and Christina Swiney recently shared how their nonprofit Access of West Michigan...
Celebrating growth of women-run businesses in Heartside neighborhood
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 02-02-2016 under PLACE-MATTERS
With the growth of businesses on the Avenue for the Arts, women are strengthening their leadership and roots in our arts community. Avenue for the Arts is the neighborhood title for the South Division corridor between Fulton and Wealthy and features...
Grand Rapids women who rock: Mary Ann Cartwright
by (ZontaGR)
Submitted 01-12-2016 under NONPROFITS
Mary Ann Cartwright is the kind of person you can learn a great deal from just by listening to her. She is a woman of immeasurable success. Intellectual, passionate, ambitious, and open-minded – there is no wonder she has achieved so much. In...
We need to stop talking about inner beauty and start teaching our girls to take action
by (Marjorie Steele)
Submitted 07-28-2015 under OPINION
The battle to bring women into the boardroom is a long one, and although we’ve made significant progress in recent years, it’s far from over. It’s not an obvious battle with clear sides, like the racism that’s raging in city...