New program from Ann Arbor bank provides $15,000 grants to first-time home buyers of color
University Lending Group's HomeBoost program has provided $15,000 grants to approximately 166 first-time home buyers of color.
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New Ann Arbor nonprofit offers community center for people with special needs
Having supported loved ones with special needs, three local residents are applying their experience to a new Ann Arbor nonprofit community center serving others with special needs.
Scio Township community planned for people with developmental disabilities to live with caregivers
A Washtenaw County-based nonprofit has acquired a 90-acre plot of land, which it plans to transform into a community in which adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities can live alongside their caregivers.
U-M receives federal grant to engage more Indigenous, rural, and underserved students in physics
The $1.125 million grant will be split between U-M, Black Hills State University in South Dakota, and Benedictine University in Illinois.
U-M receives CDC grant to establish new center for disease outbreak prediction and response
The new center will be called the Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreaks Analytics and Modeling.
Washtenaw ISD implements school mental health programming with $2.3 million in millage funds
The funds have resulted in initiatives ranging from a "Zen Room" for students to programs that support parents' mental health.
Ann Arbor company develops software to enable autonomous trucking
FreightMiner's technology would allow trucks to be remotely operated at the beginning and the end of a drive, while being autonomously driven over the long freeway stretch.
Festival advocating for psilocybin, peyote, and other entheogens returns to Ann Arbor
The third annual Entheofest, celebrating and advocating for the decriminalization of entheogens, will be held Sept. 17 on the Diag in Ann Arbor.
National Alliance on Mental Illness Washtenaw County expands outreach, education with millage funds
Funding from Washtenaw County's Public Safety and Mental Health Preservation Millage has made new programs and the publication of a booklet on mental health possible.
Week-long event series aims to promote community conversation about housing in Ann Arbor
Organizer Lisa Sauvé says House Party is intended "to bring people together in a fun but communal way to talk through some of the problems we think we have and [to] understand the trade-offs."
