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Northern Initiatives helped 10 Kent County businesses receive forgivable loans they otherwise could not get during the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and although the PPP is over, the Michigan-based lender is not done helping under-resourced small businesses.
Taste of Hope
The St. Joseph Center’s Taste of Hope returns for a fundraising evening of small plates, drinks and live entertainment. On June 3, the nonprofit’s annual tasting night will take place in front of the Miracle Theater with food from L.A. restaurants including Earle’s on Crenshaw, Nueva Venice and Kogi BBQ plus raffles, cooking demos, cocktails, an auction and live music. Tickets range from $100 to $250 and will aid unhoused families as well as struggling restaurants that were affected by the pandemic.
The St. Joseph Center is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide working, low-income families and homeless men, women and children with resources to become stable and self-supporting. Its programs include housing, mental health, educational and vocational services, and a food pantry, cafe and street outreach.
Grand Rapids Business Journal
Restaurant and small business owners lean on Hispanic chamber program for guidance, growth and expansion.
Courtesy Transformando West Michigan
After taking a break during the craziness that was 2020, Transformando West Michigan returned this year with a new round of classes for its participants.
The business training program founded and led by the West Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and underwritten this time around by Bank of America and Huntington Bank will graduate its spring 2021 cohort which began meeting virtually on Feb. 1 on April 26.
The Hispanic chamber’s Ana Jose, program manager, and Yesenia Bernal, business consultant, recently spoke to the Business Journal about this year’s iteration of the program, along with four of the 18 Latinx business participants: Paola Mendivil, co-owner of El Granjero Mexican Grill in Grand Rapids; Gricelda Mata, owner of Lindo Mexico Restaurant in Wyoming; Ismael Abreu, owner of Ismael Abreu Ag