Participants in the I-Rise family financial empowerment program, called partners, put the program’s focus on growth into practice by helping Michigan Urban Farming Initiative prepare their fields for a successful growing season.
This week, the Y bid a fond farewell to nine young people who have spent the past five weeks sprucing up several of the YMCA branches throughout the Metro Detroit Association. They were here as part of the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) program.
When community-minded people work together, good things grow. That’s true at the South Oakland YMCA, where a partnership between the Y and the Junior League of Birmingham has created a garden on a formerly empty patch of land next to the Y’s parking lot.