TaRita Johnson, right, moderates the Investor Exchange with Mike Marsiglia (Atomic Object), Bill Pink (Ferris State University), Jan Herrington-Davis (Corewell Health), and Seth Bushouse (Gentex ...

Andrea Melvin, Senior Curator at the GRPM, stands in the Kent Scientific Institute, which would become the origins of our Grand Rapids Public Museum. For decades, visitors to the Grand Rapids Public ...

Speakers at the 2026 Absolutely Accessible West Michigan conference include real estate broker Sarah Takens; urban planning leader Suzanne Schulz; Valerie Fletcher, executive director of the Institute ...

Curtis Chin’s memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” is this year’s Great Michigan Read from the Michigan Humanities. In a country increasingly sorted by politics, class, ...

Allegan County Transportation partners with OnPoint, the county’s community mental health agency, to ensure residents can access the mental health care they need. How to get to work? The grocery store ...

Gentex’s continuous improvement team has helped Community Action House and Kids’ Food Basket conserve resources by creating more efficient systems. The recent opening of a second resale store by ...

Eirann and Jenna Betka-Pope of Betka Pope Productions. The list of advances by the Grand Rapids Public Museum in recent years to welcome the community, broaden access, and foster a stronger sense of ...

This story is part of a series on the challenges and solutions related to oral health in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. It is made possible with funding support from the Delta Dental Foundation. Dr.

As Rapid Growth continues its 20-year look back, we invite you to join us in illuminating stories that still resonate with our culture. This time, we return to one because its future is uncertain. A ...

The Food Club Network began as a way to give people more choice in how they access food by operating more like a grocery store than a pantry. That idea has grown into a statewide effort. Early ...

Stephanie McNitt, manager of education for Kids’ Food Basket, leads students from Congress Elementary School at the KFB farm. In her third-grade classroom, teacher Brooke Klopcic sees the difference ...

As Rapid Growth celebrates 20 years of community storytelling, we are revisiting stories that revealed important truths early on—truths we often recognized long before their full impact became ...