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The Old Grand Rapids Christian High School is a three-story brick building. The building contains 75,000 square feet of space. It houses 40 affordable apartments, the administrative offices for Inner City Christian Federation, space for the Franklin campus of the Madison Church, and a YMCA child development center. [4]
The centers work to reach their local community with services including sports, health education, music, youth groups, counselling, financial literacy classes, food distribution and emergency help. [7] [8] [9] Each center also holds at least one church service every week. [10] Every year about five million people visit the Kroc Centers. [11]
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The renamed Anthony Bowen YMCA is still serving the U Street area of Washington. It became a part of YMCA of the city of Washington in 1947. YMCA developed the first known English as a Second Language program in the United States in response to the influx of immigrants in the 1850s. [6]
The township was first organized in 1834 under the name Kent Township. The village of Grand Rapids was within the township, and the state renamed the township as Grand Rapids Township in 1842. The village incorporated as an autonomous city from portions of the township in 1850. Grand Rapids Township became a charter township in 1979. [5]
The Grand Rapids–Wyoming Combined Statistical Area is the 2nd largest CSA in the U.S. state of Michigan (behind Metro Detroit). The CSA had a population of 1,486,055 at the 2020 census. The CSA had a population of 1,486,055 at the 2020 census.
Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. [4] At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, [5] making it the second-most populous city in Michigan, after Detroit.
The first community foundation was set up in Cleveland in 1914 by Frederick Goff and operates now as The Cleveland Foundation. [3] Others soon followed including the California Community Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust. The first Community Foundation in Canada, The Winnipeg Foundation, was established in Winnipeg in 1921. [4]