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The Kalamazoo City Manager Jim Ritsema, Mayor Bobby Hopewell, and City Attorney Clyde J Robinson met with William Johnston and William Parfet who agreed on a 70.3 million dollar donation over a three-year period. [1] [2] The goal of the foundation is to increase city funding while decreasing property taxes. [3]
Consultants were retained to conduct detailed feasibility assessments in 2008 with funding provided by the local Kalamazoo Community Foundation. By January 2009, the feasibility studies confirmed what Dunn had observed during his short time in southwest Michigan – Kalamazoo has substantial existing assets and the necessary building blocks for ...
According to a Tuesday release from the city, the Kalamazoo City Commission on Monday agreed to use $1.5 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan Act for the Kalamazoo Rx Kids program, in ...
The program, unveiled at a November 10, 2005, Kalamazoo Board of Education meeting, is also viewed as an economic development tool for Kalamazoo. Since the Kalamazoo Promise was announced, enrollment in the school district has grown by 16%, test scores have improved, and a greater proportion of high-school graduates are attending college. [3]
The Fetzer Institute, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was founded by broadcast pioneer and Detroit Tigers baseball team owner John E. Fetzer (1901–1991). He formed the institute to support work “designed to discover and enhance the integral relationships of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of experience which foster human growth, action, and responsible improvement ...
It also was used as office and rehearsal space for the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. The trustees honored their manager of 30 years, Norman Carver, by naming the facility after him. 1958 – James Carver joined The Civic staff as a Production Assistant. 1960 – The Civic was the first community theatre in the nation to present "Raisin in the Sun".
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In response to the growth of the organization, Ashland County Community Foundation is hiring an additional staff member and realigning other staff responsibilities.