building community

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

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

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

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

Maintaining your health – physical, emotional and mental – is important during this time of heightened uncertainty and stress. While we social distance to protect the health of our most vulnerable neighbors and family members, it’s a good time to reinforce, maintain or start some healthy habits like exercise. This guest blog comes from the Michigan Municipal League’s Membership Engagement … Read More

The stay-at-home order has made such a difference for so many staying healthy during the pandemic, but, if we’re being honest, it’s been hard. We’ve felt disconnected, and sometimes bored. We miss our friends, our families and our coworkers. We miss being part of a social fabric that is made strongest through our connections with people in our community. Since … Read More