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While volunteering may be performed with the intention of helping others, studies show that those who give of themselves also receive. Researchers have attempted to measure the benefits that volunteers receive, including the positive feeling referred to as “helper’s high”, increased trust in others, and increased social and political participation.

One year, 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days... 2020 felt much longer than that. As we reflect on the year where fear became a daily occurrence, where lives were lost, where politics divided, and where racial reconciliation was demanded, we remember....

Whether the discussion is gender, race, class—pick a box, category or, more to the point, social confine—with the innumerable advancements made throughout the course of history in science, healthcare, and technology, why has not the most basic “advancement” been made: that of human equality?

In Grand Rapids, Kent County, and surrounding areas, homelessness is exponentially increasing in locations we have never seen before. With the temperatures falling significantly and staying below freezing; men, women and children who are exposed to the elements are at severe risk of hypothermia, frost bite or even death.