The Grand Rapids Community Foundation awarded grants amounting to $764,500 for education, housing, health, art, and neighborhood initiatives. The recipients of the grants are Grand Rapids Schools, the Dwelling Place of Grand Rapids, Spectrum Health, the Creston Neighborhood Association, and ArtPrize.
The Dwelling Place of Grand Rapids received the biggest part of the grant amounting to $400,000 to aid in the support of affordable and quality housing options.
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When Hannah Davis traveled to China to teach English, she noticed how Chinese workers and farmers were often sporting olive green army-style shoes. Those shoes served as her inspiration to create her own social enterprise, Bangs Shoes.