Abstract Community Voices is a project at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan that aims to teach students to listen and carefully record life stories from the Grand Rapids community. This is an oral history collection of numerous interviews and video productions from various Calvin College classes. Each series is composed of the particular output from a class that participated in the project. Each class produced oral histories or a video production of community residents in the city of Grand...

Abstract The S.O.U.L (Sharing Our Uncommon Legacy)of Philanthropy project was a grassroots effort by a group of Grand Rapids, Michigan historians and film makers working together during 2006-2009. The group researched and interviewed twenty-eight Grand Rapids philanthropists using high definition video technology. This collection includes research files on each interviewee, the footage of the interviews (along with transcripts and related material) and the documentary, The Gift of All, (in various...

Abstract The Women's City Club was founded January 4th, 1924 by the presidents of the various women's organizations of Grand Rapids. After the first meeting in November of 1923 the Women's City Club became a private social club where women of the city could meet socially and enjoy the companionship of other women through common and varied interests in Grand Rapids and the State of Michigan, and would then attempt to further the good in Grand Rapids. Throughout the following years, membership grew by...