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Community baby showers aim to support Kalamazoo parents
Four times a year, nonprofit Cradle Kalamazoo holds a free baby shower — with the goal of improving infant health outcomes through access to resources. On a chilly Saturday morning in March, the parking lot of Kalamazoo’s Urban Alliance building on Stockbridge Avenue was packed with cars. Inside, families with kids in strollers and wagons…
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Nonprofit Spotlight: LEAN on Healing with Healing on Purpose
Nonprofit name LEAN on Healing with Healing on Purpose Year formed 2025, as a fiscally sponsored project of Stara Collaborative Mission & population served LEAN on Healing with Healing on Purpose exists in response to the profound and ongoing trauma experienced within our community. Many individuals and families are directly impacted by incarceration, addiction, violence, family…
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Urban Alliance’s Terra Bautista Honored with Community Impact Award
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Urban Alliance Executive Director Terra Bautista received the Transformation Through Opportunities Community Impact Award from Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine during its 2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration on Jan. 16. The award recognizes Bautista’s leadership and lifelong commitment to creating pathways of opportunity for individuals and communities that…