Painting party business opens new Flint storefront
Paints, Chalices, & Hues has been throwing their painting parties since 2015. The business now has five employees and a storefront on South Saginaw Street.
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Communities First to host dialogues on Michigan water, Great Lakes
The $5,000 grant will explore Flint residents' personal connections to the Michigan coastline.
Flint teens turn artwork, inspirational messages into budding business
Called Loving Me Inc., their business sells bookmarks, postcards, and buttons with the teens' hand-drawn artwork that features positive messages and people of varying ethnicities, cultures and body types.
$30-million development focuses on Flint ‘choice’
The federal grant would fund the first major residential housing development in 20 years and perhaps the first community development in a century that truly builds a neighborhood.
Art and Identity dance freely through “Arts and Detention”
They are young. They are locked up. They are troubled and traumatized. Through art, they also have a voice.
Video Video shows sights and sounds of Golden Leaf ‘musical experience’
Hear for yourself why this 97-year-old club is flourishing.
3 new housing developments, $50 million investment headed to Flint
Featuring apartments, townhouses, business space, and community centers, these developments are being used to anchor community economic development.
Welcome to Golden Leaf, the iconic Flint jazz club everyone should know about
These legendary walls have heard greats including Diana Ross and Dizzy Gillespie. And, these days, jazz nights at The Leaf continue to be nothing short of a musical experience under owner and maitre’d Lottie Reid.
First-of-its-kind tutor training to boost adult literacy in Flint area
Specialized literacy programs are available though Flint and Genesee Literacy Network partners for parents, adults with disabilities, young adults, and those for whom English is a second language.
Building Flint’s social enterprise and investment systems
A business offering wrap-around services, SIPI defines its mission as transforming legacy cities into economic hubs of opportunity for everyone.
