Designer Jolene DeJong created the Universal Design (showroom) at Disability Advocates of Kent County. As a teenager working in a nursing home, Jolene De Jong watched older adults struggle with ...

Volunteer Ella Hengeveld studies history and anthropology at the University of Michigan. Inside Rudell Drug Store, retired compounding pharmacist Ron Marsteiner is surrounded by medicine bottles, ...

DeLayna Dubie has knitted more than 50 hats and stuffed animals for newborns, pediatric cancer patients and families at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital and Ronald McDonald House West Michigan. When 11 ...

Jose L. Capeles is the Housing Commission’s senior director of operations. When Jose Capeles’ family moved from Philadelphia to Grand Rapids in 1991, they were starting over. His grandfather lived at ...

Jackson and Evelyn Befus are siblings and co-owners of Go Green College Painters. Jackson Befus wasn’t thinking about starting a business as he stood beside his father restoring a 36-foot sailboat. He ...

Amy Stevens, and her husband, Marshall Stevens, attend the annual Flower Festival in downtown Alpena, Mich. Amy Stevens has spent decades thinking about accessibility, not because it’s her job, but ...

First Steps Kent’s Outreach Manager Elyse Greene speaks to area parents about Kids RX. Elyse Greene has answered the same question dozens of times since Rx Kids expanded into Grand Rapids’ 49507 ZIP ...

Michigan legislature’s FY 2027 state budget includes a much needed $1.45 million increase for Early On.

Emily Merten is the associate director of student success at Muskegon Community College. When a student at Muskegon Community College struggled to navigate public transportation because of multiple ...

For our RG20LookBack story, we want to revisit the timely harm reduction story on Grand Rapids Red Project by our former Do Good Editor, Heidi Stukkie, whose 2012 piece, “The Red Project is preventing ...

This mural in downtown Lowell is one of the first installations in the city’s public art program, with additional murals scheduled to be painted throughout the community. What’s happening: Lowell Arts ...