The effort to build the skatepark began in early 2018 with a Built to Play Skatepark Grant, funded jointly by the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation and The Skatepark Project (formerly the Tony Hawk Foundation).
The Ypsilanti recording studio will admit 25 people to each of three ticketed shows in its outdoor courtyard for its third annual Equinox Party.
Ypsi, Can I Share? aims to educate and empower residents who may otherwise feel excluded from conversations about voting, politics, and civic participation.
YPSI: In This Together is helping Ypsilanti-area residents address mental health needs through Facebook Live events, small virtual group sessions, scholarships for individual therapy, and self-care kits.
Eastern Michigan University, Washtenaw Community College, and other local partners have collaborated on the program, which aims to help county residents gain child care employment credentials at no cost.
Team members work with the county health department to identify and address health issues for several priority areas, including the county's Latinx community, Whitmore Lake, and neighborhoods in Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Township, and Superior Township.
A number of local nonprofits have established new programs to help county residents pay their bills and stay in their homes, and several non-traditional, grassroots initiatives have sprung up to address the overwhelming need.
Ypsilanti resident Rodolfo Alvarado has made a living writing about Latinx people with unusual stories, but the last place he expected to find such a story was in research about the Holocaust.
The chapel had fallen into disuse for decades, suffering the ravages of time and weather. But a dedicated group of local residents has banded together to faithfully restore the building and reopen it as a small event space.
Organizers of the beloved event, created for and by Ypsi's Southside neighborhood, are working to maintain momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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