Ferris State University’s featured Giving Tuesday 2023 efforts focus on supporting students facing food and housing insecurity.
Ferris State’s Bulldog Basic Needs Alliance’s mission is rooted in its commitment to student academic and personal success to remain on track to earn their degree by providing emergency assistance to students facing housing and food challenges that could hinder their higher education goals. At any given time, 30 to 60 percent of students have experienced a food or housing challenge.
This year’s Giving Tuesday, taking place after Thanksgiving on Tuesday, Nov. 28, Ferris State is calling on people who would like to support student success to consider a gift to the Bulldog Basic Needs Alliance.
“Everyone knows the story of the starving college student,” said Maggie Walcott, the Bulldog Basic Needs Alliance chair. “It’s kind of this societally accepted idea that when you go to college, you&
The Reed City Police Department is asking for assistance regarding help with a current bank fraud case.
Seen below are three pictures of a person of interest in the investigation. It is believed that he may be from outside of the area.
Anyone with information as to his identity is asked to call the Reed City Police Department.
Through a $277,032 check donation that was presented to The Pink Agenda today, Scooter’s Coffee will help the organization provide valuable resources such as funding for life-saving breast cancer research and raising awareness.
From Sept. 27- Oct. 31, and in connection with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, customers across the 30-state Scooter’s Coffee footprint supported this critical research by collectively purchasing 461,673 customer-favorite Courage Cookies and/or by adding a donation to their order—the donations and 20% of the cookie sales will directly support breast cancer research.
Since 2020, Scooter’s Coffee has donated nearly $676,000 to The Pink Agenda and sold more than 1 million Courage Cookies across its footprint. Due to significant progress in breast cancer research, there are more than 4 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.
“For the fourth year in a row, we are so grateful for the direct and meaningful impact our
U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development State Director for Michigan Brandon Fewins today announced a $55.2 million loan to extend and upgrade powerlines in rural Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
“From expanding high speed internet access in the Upper Peninsula to strengthening and expanding the power grid in southern Michigan, USDA is making historic investments in rural communities,” said Fewins.
Midwest Energy & Communications will use a $55,273,000 loan to connect 1,160 consumers and build and improve 285 miles of line. This loan includes $5,260,450 in smart grid technologies. Based in Cassopolis, the rural energy cooperative provides electric service to approximately 36,600 consumers over 4,284 miles of energized line in seven counties in the southeast and southwest areas of Michigan as well as three counties in northern Indiana and two counties in northern Ohio.
USDA Rural Development provides loans and grants to help expand economic opportunitie
Ferris State University Biological Sciences instructor Cindy Fitzwilliams-Heck was honored by the Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education for her efforts to train the next generations of educators.
Fitzwilliams-Heck received the Bill Stapp Award from the Lansing-based organization at its annual conference in Alpena.
Fitzwilliams-Heck is an alumna of Ferris State’s Biology Education program and has been teaching in higher education for nearly 20 years. Her affiliations include the Alliance, the Academy of Natural Resources within Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources and the Muskegon River Watershed Assembly, sponsored by Ferris State and other entities.
“It was an honor to receive the award,” Fitzwilliams-Heck said. “I feel this is my biggest professional accomplishment, as being associated with someone of Bill Stapp’s stature is rewarding, inspiring and invigorating.”
The Michigan Alliance for Environmental a