May 30 through June 5 of 2020 is Porch Placemaking Week. At the MML Foundation and the Michigan Municipal League, we have been working with placemaking for a long time. The new threat of COVID-19 has us (and a lot of people, especially MML members) thinking about what the future of public spaces looks like. So far, reports from countries … Read More
This guest blog comes from Melissa Milton-Pung, program manager, Policy Research Labs, at the Michigan Municipal League. The blog originally appeared on the Michigan Municipal League website on April 25, 2020. You can find the original post here. Food security is deeply embedded in local economic and financial stability, a core tenet of Community Wealth, for both households and … Read More
In February of 2019, I started a new creative journey. For years, I’d wanted to make sourdough bread. I grew up in a home where homemade bread was the norm, but we’d never done sourdough. I fell in love with the flavor of sourdough as an adult and wanted to produce THAT at home, but the timing had just never … Read More
This guest blog comes from Kelly Warren, director of Membership & Affiliate Engagement for the Michigan Municipal League. In 2019, she was appointed by Governor Whitmer to serve on the State Census Complete Count Committee. Kelly has been managing the deployment of capacity-building grants to Michigan’s communities from the MML Foundation and coordinating state-wide and localized efforts to increase participation … Read More
Let’s embrace our culture and re-imagine what places that truly support people look like. How do we take cues from the positive ways that we are spending our time during a crisis and build on those things moving forward?… Read More