Today's guest speakers are Dr. Ron Gorman, Assistant Superintendent, Pre-K-12 Instructional Support, Grand Rapids Public Schools and Jessica Austin, Health and Training Officer, Consumers Energy and former STRIVE Mentor. Please read their bios below. What is S.T.R.I.V.E.? STRIVE is a motivational mentoring program working with high school junior and senior students who want to improve…
Eric K. Foster is the Co-founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Rende Progress Capital (RPC), an emerging Michigan Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), and the only racial equity focused not-for-profit loan fund. RPC was founded to provide loans, investments and services to Excluded Entrepreneurs who face barriers to conventional small business financing because of racial…
Our Interact students will lead this luncheon today as part of their leadership involvement with our Club. These students join us from Catholic Central High School, City High Middle School, East Grand Rapids High School, Grand Rapids Christian School, Ottawa Hills High School, Union High School and West Catholic High School. They will moderate the…
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Mitch Miller currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director for Carbon Green BioEnergy, LLC and is the President of Iroquois Bio-Energy Company, LLC and Managing Partner of NUVU Fuels. Mr. Miller has had an extensive history in the ethanol industry dating back to 1994. Mr. Miller’s education has been in Process Plant…
On May 22, 2018, University Research Corridor (URC), an alliance of Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, announced the appointment of Britany Affolter Caine as executive director. Affolter-Caine oversees all strategic and operational aspects of the URC, one of the nation's most accomplished and respected academic research clusters. Affolter-Caine has…
We intend to write thank you cards for every staff member at Union and Ottawa High Schools. We also intend to have the principals at both schools give a short (5 to 10 minutes) presentation and answer questions about the challenges the schools face. In addition, while we are writing thank you cards, we will…
Lakeshore Advantage President Jennifer Owens delivers direct business attraction, expansion and retention services while providing overall leadership to the organization. Since joining the organization in 2013, she has helped various major business expansion and attraction projects. She has more than 15 years of leadership experience in business retention, expansion and attraction working at various state and local economic…
Dr. Douglas Kindschi, now in his 43rd year at Grand Valley State University, served in the position of dean for 28 of those years. He is currently University Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy and the Director of the Kaufman Interfaith Institute. While Dean of Science he was responsible for 14 departments including the basic sciences,…