May We Be Encouraged. Click to hear ISAAC Clergy and Community Leaders share what passages encourage them during difficult times. Rabbi Schicker Adrian Vazquez Rev. Gy Ludvig-McCartney Josephine Brown Maliha Raza Khan

The Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence (FFE) made a great choice for their board by appointing Stephanie Hoffman, Executive Director of Open Doors Kalamazoo and co-chair of the ISAAC & TRHT Housing Task Force.

In ISAAC we’ve been painfully aware of housing inequities for so long that it feels like a “silver lining in the storm cloud” that COVID-19 is changing the conversation about ending our housing inequities. All this is being discussed for those impacted most by housing inequities: Essential workers having no sick pay, no health insurance, and […]

On April the 21st, the Anti-Racism Task Force (ARTF) held their meeting by Zoom as they continue to engage in one-on-one listening in preparation for the ISAAC Public Meeting, this Fall. 22 members were in attendance for the one-on-one conversations with Komal Razvi and Daniel Hamilton of the YWCA, and an update from Vice Mayor Patrese […]

On April 28, the Gun Violence Task Force met through Zoom and talked to three local leaders involved in gun violence prevention work in Kalamazoo: State Representative Jon Hoadley, State Senator Sean McCann and Sherry Brockway of the YWCA. Rep. Hoadley talked about the current session of the MI House as it has been affected […]

Sheila was born and raised in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Upon graduation from High School in 1988, she attended Grambling State University in hopes of pursuing a nursing degree, but soon realized the medical field wasn’t her calling.

Meet Group Violence Intervention (GVI) Coordinator, Michael Wilder My name is Michael Wilder, I was born and raised in Chicago and I am the Group Violence Intervention Coordinator for The City of Kalamazoo. I did not start out with such a prestigious title. Try Career Criminal! Three trips to prison. My future was as bleak […]