Featured Stories
Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Ann Arbor Summer Festival celebrates its 30th season this summer. The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation has supported the Festival from the beginning – including grants to support Top of the Park's move to Ingalls Mall and a community donations program that helps keep Top of the Park free and lively as ever.
Nina Ignaczak
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
DTW has been hailed far and wide as a world-class airport. Ground transportation to and from its terminals, however, have long been criticized as less than adequate. Last year Ann Arbor decided to address this shortcoming with AirRide, a daily public bus service that now averages nearly 1000 riders per day.
Jeanine DeLay
Thursday, June 13, 2013
When communities are looking to where to allocate scarce economic, natural, and cultural resources, the playing field should be level. Jeanine DeLay, president of A2Ethics.org, opines on why the city of Ann Arbor should establish an ethics policy.
Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Before she died in 1966, Phoebe set up a trust agreement which named the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation as a beneficiary. That gift established the first endowment for seniors, and continues to support programs that assist 'the aged, infirm and needy.'
Brian Short
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
To expect Ann Arbor to be like Chicago, New York or San Francisco is absurd. Nevertheless, when it comes to attracting professional talent, we are competing with lifestyles those cities offer. A recent guys-only pub-and-shop-crawl through downtown sought to demonstrate that The Deuce can be a contender.
Jon Zemke
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Serial entrepreneur and U-M lecturer Jim Price is not your everyday homegrown entrepreneur. He's a transplant who came to Ann Arbor in 1988 for a business opportunity and stayed, facilitating the success of several local companies. In a candid Q&A, Price weighs in on the region's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
In Washtenaw County, one in six adults can barely read or write. A $20,000 grant in 2010 helped Washtenaw Literacy - Michigan's oldest literacy organization - maintain its capacity to support volunteer literacy tutors who serve nearly 2,000 adults each year. Since 1971, trained volunteers have helped more than 20,000 adults learn to read.
Patrick Dunn
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
With growing numbers of bikers making Ann Arbor the place to live and work, the grounds for biking infrastructure are being laid. The non-profit Common Cycle co-founders dream of a free public bike repair station in every neighborhood. Concentrate gets the story on how this is done.
Natalie Burg
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
You can watch a movie or you can get to know a movie. Natalie Burg offers up some tips for getting to know the films and filmmakers at this week's Cinetopia Film festival.
Concentrate Staff
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Over the last few years TechArb, an incubator for student entrepreneurs, has been quietly nurturing the next generation of tech start-ups. Concentrate's May speaker event will feature the folks behind this innovative effort and student groups pitching their business concepts to the crowd. Sign up now for Thursday's Happy Hour event!
Amanda Taylor
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Continuing our series of new college grads giving their post-grad outlooks, EMU alumna Amanda Taylor, who chose to remain rooted in Ann Arbor for her graduate psychology studies, writes on the area's educational and socioeconomic diversity.
Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Peter Dobson cared so deeply about environmental issues that he made sure his will included a gift to create an endowment to help protect and enhance the local ecosystem. Though he died at the young age of 21, Peter's passion for the environment lives on through the Peter Dobson Fund which has awarded more than $226,000 to support local environmental organizations.
Brian Conway, Michigan State Historic Preservation Officer
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
State Historic Preservation Office launches blockbuster show June 14 at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills.
Concentrate Staff
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Concentrate will be taking next week off to spend time with friends and family, enjoy the start of summer, and pay our respects to those who sacrificed for our country. We'll be back June 5!
Natalie Burg
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Kathy King proves that you don't have to move to the coasts to be an artist. After a stint in L.A., the dancer and choreographer returned to Michigan to start the Michigan Dance Project, an organization that is slowly but surely growing in size and stature.