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THE FEED
by Heart of West Michigan United Way (Heart of West M...) on Friday Apr 15th, 2011 11:18am in NONPROFITS 
/Land Conservancy of West Michigan
On Saturday April 16th, 30 teen volunteers with the Grand Rapids Community Foundation's Youth Grant Committee (YGC) will be tackling a trail-realignment project at the Land Conservancy of West Michigan's Brower Lake Nature Preserve in Rockford.
The project, arranged in connection with the Volunteer Center GR, was planned to coincide with National Volunteer Week, April 10th-16th.
The project will enable the Land Conservancy to make much-needed changes to the eroding trail landscape of the Brower Lake Preserve, one of 13 preserves and nearly 7,000 acres the organization oversees.
The YGC members participating in this event will get their hands dirty raking and transporting fill dirt and topsoil to reduce erosion on a large hill at the nature preserve. Winter sledding on this hill, in addition to pedestrian trail use and stormwater slope runoff, has caused erosion which now hinders the natural landscape. With the help of the YGC an eroded trail will be re-routed and native plants and trees will be planted to stabilize the damaged hill.
$500 of grant funding from the Michigan Community Service Commission allocated for this project enabled the Land Conservancy to purchase supplies for the project, including an erosion blanket, and native plants and shrubs to repopulate the landscape.
Working together, the Land Conservancy of West Michigan, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, and Heart of West Michigan United Way’s Volunteer Center offer opportunities for high school students to increase their community involvement and environmental knowledge.
As a long-time community leader, Heart of West Michigan United Way collaborates with other organizations throughout West Michigan to advance the common good - that is, to direct change and create opportunities for a good life for all who live here. We focus our efforts in three critical areas: education, income and health, which are the building blocks to a successful life. A quality education that leads to a stable job, enough to support a family through retirement, with good health at every stage. Our goal is to work toward long-lasting changes that truly make an impact. So while we support those who have fallen on hard times, we also work to identify the root causes of problems. Then we build preventative systems that keep those problems from happening in the first place.
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