inclusion
Community Updates: Friday, December 2
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 12-02-2022 under NEWS
The City of Grand Rapids Sees Increase in Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index Score On November 30, the City of Grand Rapids announced that the Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index (MEI) had...
Alternatives in Motion turns 27 years - serving thousands of person with disabilities in our West Michigan community
by (Coleen Davis)
Submitted 04-05-2020 under NONPROFITS
Alternatives in Motion has been serving the disability community in West Michigan for 27 years! Our mission is to enhance indepedence to all through access to mobility equipment.With each new year, our efforts to provide mobility equipment to those...
New Committee Announced at Alternatives in Motion
by (Coleen Davis)
Submitted 08-14-2019 under NONPROFITS
As an organization that strives to enhance independence for persons with disabilities, equity is at the center of our work. Because of this, over the past two years, AIM has made efforts and strides to embed a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)...
Grand Rapids native inspired to bring health equity to her hometown
by (metrohealth2019)
Submitted 06-17-2019 under NONPROFITS
Rhae-Ann Booker remembers the day her mother sat down to tell her she would be attending a new elementary school. “She said, ‘They are making some changes in the city. So now you are going to be riding a bus.’” This didn...
Ethics and Religion Talk: How Should We be Inclusive of Persons with Disabilities?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 06-03-2019 under OPINION
Linda B. asks, “How do religious institutions show themselves to be open to folks with disabilities both visible and not visible?” Rev. Ray Lanning, a retired minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, responds:...
Local First aims to help businesses create community change with upcoming equity workshop
by (PeopleFirstEconomy)
Submitted 06-13-2017 under NONPROFITS
Change doesn’t come from individuals alone. At Local First, we believe that business can instigate positive change within a community. Not only does local business help create and stabilize communities, it has a major role in creating a...
Aquinas College and the need for more LGBTQIA inclusivity: Part two
by (mariahcaitlin)
Submitted 04-07-2017 under NEWS
Aquinas Alumnus Brittany Devon and Tyler Clark shared their reactions to the film and the need for a more inclusive campus for all. Brittany Devon shares that, “As an alumnus, I feel there is a gap between Aquinas' inclusion with...
Aquinas College and the need for more LGBTQIA inclusivity
by (mariahcaitlin)
Submitted 04-04-2017 under NEWS
Last month at Aquinas College, there was a viewing of the film "Desire of the Everlasting Hills:" an anti-LGBTQIA movie which highlights celibacy as the only appropriate lifestyle for LGBTQIA identifying individuals. I interviewed Emma...
'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...
Grand Rapids Area Black Businesses move conversation to action at #TheShift Summit
by (arcarpenter)
Submitted 11-08-2016 under NEWS
Are you ready to make #TheShift? Jamiel Robinson wants to know. Robinson, founder of Grand Rapids Area Black Businesses (GRABB), is organizing #TheShift Summit, taking place Friday, November 18 at the Seidman College of Business on GVSU’s...