Upper Peninsula
Comprenew announces expansion into Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin
by (Comprenew_GR)
Submitted 04-03-2018 under NONPROFITS
Comprenew is pleased to announce a significant expansion into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Northern Wisconsin, which will provide proper electronics recycling services to people in those communities. This geographic expansion builds on the...
Feeding America West Michigan celebrates fourth record year
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 01-16-2017 under NONPROFITS
In 2016, Feeding America West Michigan distributed more food than ever before. The nonprofit hunger relief organization, based in Comstock Park, provided 28.9 million pounds of food and household goods to its network of food pantries, soup kitchens...
A Celebration of Superior Poetry
by (Write616)
Submitted 02-09-2016 under
Join us on March 24th at 6:30 pm as we introduce new books of poetry from and about the U.P., including Janeen Pergrin Rastall’s award winning chapbook" Objects May Appear Closer," Phillip Sterling’s chapbook "And For All...
Food Bank announces third-consecutive record year
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 01-18-2016 under NONPROFITS
Feeding America West Michigan just finished up its third record year in a row, distributing 27.6 million pounds of food in 2015, the equivalent of 22 million meals. That’s an increase of 1.1 million pounds over 2014. “I’m...
115,000 meals donated on #GivingTuesday
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 12-02-2015 under NONPROFITS
“Incredible.” That’s how Feeding America West Michigan CEO Ken Estelle describes the response to his organization’s #GivingTuesday appeal. In the five-day online campaign that culminated yesterday, a total of $18,682 was...
Food Bank seeks 80,000 meals on #GivingTuesday
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 11-30-2015 under NONPROFITS
One in seven people is food insecure in West Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. Feeding America West Michigan is inviting the community to do something about it on #GivingTuesday, Dec. 1. In fact, the Food Bank is issuing a five-day challenge...
With help from community, Food Bank feeds half a million each year
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 06-15-2015 under NONPROFITS
Each year Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank provides food to half a million people in West Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. Volunteers, farmers, grocery stores and fellow hunger-relief nonprofits are all key to that effort. Watch this new...
Feeding America West Michigan to expand fresh food distributions with CSX, Conservation Fund grant
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 02-26-2015 under NONPROFITS
CSX and the Conservation Fund announced today that Feeding America West Michigan is one of 10 charitable organizations in the South, Midwest and on the East Coast to receive grants to improve the transportation and distribution of fresh, healthy...
Group seeks to put question of wolf hunting on Michigan's 2014 ballot
by (eringolder)
Submitted 02-25-2013 under NEWS
A petition drive is underway to allow voters to choose whether or not a piece of legislation, which could allow hunters to hunt the gray wolf in Michigan, will stand. The group Keep Michigan Wolves Protected needs to collect more than...