A new monthly series for men is being offered at Dominican Center at Marywood. Mark your calendars for the fourth Wednesday of...
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Posted: 12 years 4 days
Tagged: al heystek, culture, Dominican Center, fathering, Heartwell, journey, lally, masculine, men, parenting, plachta, Soul, spirituality
Posted: 12 years 5 days
Tagged: education, extended school day, extended school year
In the summer of 2011 San Juan Diego Academy decided to join a small group of schools nationwide that offer expanded learning time during the school year. These schools are redesigning and...
Posted: 12 years 5 days
Tagged: Arts, Downtown, heartside, substance abuse
Our featured artist for May is Cory Ruiz. Here is the artist’s story in his own words.
"When I was a baby, my mom left me at...
Posted: 12 years 5 days
Tagged: Cook Arts Center, GAAH, GAAH Press Club, Grand Rapids Creative Youth Center, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Museum Free 4 All
For this article, the GAAH Press Club reporters had three objectives: to write the article in the third person, to begin the article with action, and to interview someone at the museum. Below...
Posted: 12 years 5 days
Tagged: Fund Drive, Rapidian, spring fund drive, sustainability
"Not only is The Rapidian a valuable resource for our community, but it provides a place for new writers (like me) to get professional experience too." -Heidi Stukkie...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: Community, culture, Dickinson, gun violence, LINC, madison ave, youth
From the desk of Darel Ross II, LINC's Co-Executive Director:
Looking out of my window onto a street that many youth affectionately refer to as “Mad Ave” (short for...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: Believe 2 Become, Central Zone, Community, Duthler's, families, Games, kids, LINC, parents, Seidman Boys & Girls Club
Today, I have pride in my heart and a smile on my face for the Central Zone Community and the commitment families have made to...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: Cook Arts Center, Cook Library Center, GAAH, GAAH Press Club, Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities, Neighborhood news bureau, press club
As a neighborhood news bureau, Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities has had the opportunity to build a very special relationship with The Rapidian. Not only...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: rapidian fund drive
Every year when the NPR fund drive comes around I am tempted to change the station, and I hate to admit it, but I usually do. I think to myself NPR is huge, they're national, they have...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: challenge donation, Chelsea Laforge, Community Media Center, Fund Drive, George Wietor, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Holly Bechiri, join us, Knight Foundation, Linda Gellasch, support
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Posted: 12 years 1 week
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: beer, Founders Brewing Company, heartside, local breweries
Every year hundreds of businesses open up all over Grand Rapids. Making sure a business doesn’t merely survive but also thrives is a difficult and complicated process- requiring constant...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: music, record store day, vertigo music
Last Saturday, the aisles of Vertigo Music flooded with enthusiasm as hordes of music lovers arrived to celebrate...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
“You didn’t invent Christianity in North America, you just domesticated it,” Shane Claiborne quoted an Iraqi pastor during his lecture at Calvin College’s...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: environment, LEED, sustainability, workshops
"Going green" has been all the rage over the last several years, and operating out of a LEED-certified building seems to be one of the proudest boasts in the business community and...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: citizen journalism, Fund Drive, Fundraising, spring fund drive, sustainability, The Rapidian
Someone asked me this morning: What's your goal with this fund drive? Why are you doing it? What are you going to do with the money? Why should I invest my money?
So I thought I'd give you...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: 5x5 Night, entrepreneurship, Momentum, Rick Devos, Start Garden
You bring the seeds, we’ll supply the field and the water: that’s the premise behind Start Garden, Rick DeVos’s venture capital fund designed...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
The Transgender Education Collaboration is excited with the results of the Transgender Visibility Campaign that took place in West Michigan during March and early April of 2012. The Campaign...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: Calvin College, Comics, craig thompson, Drew Damron, festival of faith
Craig Thompson is a cartoonist whose work is pushing the medium into new and exciting directions. Known for his comics of immense proportion (Blankets and Habibi), he...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: Ann Voskamp, festival of faith and writing, writing
Wife of a farmer, mother of six children and teacher of homeschoolers: this litany of responsibilities seems uncontainable to the limitations...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: B2B, Baby Scholars, Believe 2 Become, Central Zone, Children, Community, education, I Believe I Become, LINC, Neighborhood, parent involvement, Schools of Hope, West Zone
LINC's Neighborhood Engagement team has been an agent for change in our communities. The Believe 2 Become...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the Grand...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
For a man whose voice holds such a confident calmness, it’s surprising when Li-Young Lee reveals his own dissatisfaction with his...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: art, Gerald Ford, graffiti, mdot, street art
A few weeks ago a small outpouring of...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the...
Posted: 12 years 1 week
Tagged: Fighting Hunger Together, hunger, social media, unemployment, vote, walmart
The 2012 Fighting Hunger Together campaign is entering its final week. At the end of the day on Monday, April 30, the polls will close on the three-week-long...