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        pediatric leaders decided to surprise   awarded to the following recipients:   in the Retail, Goods and Services,
        him with the pigskin. It was well    All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre;   Hospitality and Tourism and
        worth it.                            Lansing Art Gallery & Education       Nonprofit categories in September
                                             Center; Lansing Children’s Choir;     and October 2021, for a total of
        The Arts Council of Greater Lansing   Lansing Symphony Orchestra;          $6,600,000 awarded to date. LEAP
        proudly announces grant funding      Michigan State University Writing     expects to award additional capacity-
        totaling $22,900 to be distributed   Center and REACH Studio Art Center;   building grants for childcare
        to Greater Lansing artists and arts   and Chris Clark Fellowship funding   providers, business incubators and
        organizations. The grants assist     totaling $8,000 was awarded to        community impact organizations in
        grantees in covering costs for       the following recipients: Hrant       mid-November.
        projects, supplies, conference and   Bagrazyan; Michelle Carlson; Seth
        workshop fees and other support      Ebersole; Sam Gould; Keyonie James;   Sparrow Forensic Pathology Services
        for their work. Grants were awarded   Mike Marriott and Masaki Takahashi.  has released its 2020 annual report
        through each of the following                                              on deaths in the five counties
        program initiatives: MCACA POD       The Ingham County Board of            iSparrow serves as medical examiner.
        (Professional or Organization        Commissioners and the Lansing         The report provides detail on manner
        Development) Minigrant funding       Economic Area Partnership (LEAP)      of deaths, such as drugs, suicide and
        totaling $3,750 for 2022 was         announced additional grant            homicide. It also provides historical
        awarded to the following recipients:   recipients of the $11M Ingham       data for comparison. The report, and
        Amber Sheerin of Michigan Library    County Sunrise Small Business         other Forensic Pathology findings
        Association; Lansing Art Gallery;    Grants Program. Two-hundred           can be found at Sparrow.org/
        and Olivia Furhman; MCACA Arts       sixty-seven businesses from across    omereports.
        Project Minigrants funding totaling   Ingham County received grants
        $7,400 was awarded to the following   ranging from $5,000 or $25,000       The Lansing Economic Area
        recipients: Peckham Vocational       for a total of $2,125,000 in grant    Partnership (LEAP), the Lansing
        Industries and Lansing School        awards. These recent awards add       Poetry Club, and the Residential
        District; Young Creatives Grant      to the $4,475,000 in grant funds      College in the Arts and Humanities
        funding totaling $7,500 for 2022 was   LEAP and Ingham County awarded      (RCAH) Center for Poetry at Michigan

















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