Bridge Builders

This article was originally published in March/April 2022 issue of The Review, the Michigan Municipal League’s official magazine. To read the full publication, click here.  Leaders in municipalities of all sizes, from very small rural townships and villages to larger, urban areas see the arts as an important element of place. Often, this understanding of the arts is focused on … Read More

The Michigan Municipal League Foundation announced today recipients of its Bridge Builders microgrant program. The projects supported include 17 grant recipients that reimagined the future of their communities in a way that value and celebrate individual well-being, diversity, and culture as local community assets. The Bridge Builders Project began as a pilot program in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 … Read More

This blog comes from Scott Aldrich, an English teacher from Thornapple Kellogg High School in Middleville, MI. His project, One Book One Community, Middleville, was awarded a 2020 Bridge Builders microgrant. This blog post was originally posted on Mr. Aldrich’s blog on October 28, 2020. A brisk fall evening, the last teasing tidbits of sunshine disappearing behind the golden leaves … Read More

At the MML Foundation, we believe that a civically engaged community is key to sparking and sustaining positive change and growth in Michigan’s cities. As 2020 continues to bring hardship and uncertainty, we see deepening divisions highlighted in the news, and a sense of hopelessness, as individuals, over the state of our world. Despite that, we have seen neighbors coming … Read More