Michigan Municipal League

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

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

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

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