Blogging for Change

One of the things we have been trying to do over the past year is to communicate with YOU – our loyal GKUW donors, advocates, volunteers and the community at large – more often. With our monthly e-newsletter, quarterly inserts in the Kalamazoo Gazette and our Facebook fan page, we’re now able to reach you beyond the campaign season.

Yet we know there are always new opportunities to connect with our supporters.

After our exciting launch on Facebook earlier this fall, we saw the enormous potential of social media, which are connecting people and driving powerful grassroots movements all over the world.

We created this blog to keep our supporters up to speed on our latest local happenings, as well as to create a communal space to share ideas from other nonprofits and community service organizations around the globe that are doing some really cool stuff.

Through the stories, photos and videos you’ll find here, we hope you’ll be inspired and gain a new appreciation for both the current and emerging needs in our community.

We also hope you’ll recognize the tremendous work being done to address those needs – and see the opportunities we have to improve our community. Each of us can truly make a difference.

But perhaps most important, we want to use our community blog as a platform to talk with you – not at you. We want to know what you’re interested in, what makes you tick, what (or who) inspires you to LIVE UNITED.

So we encourage you to bring your ideas, your thoughts, your experiences to the table. If you have an idea for a post or would like to write a guest post, please e-mail info@gkuw.org and include “Guest Blog” in the subject line. We welcome your input.

You can expect to hear from us every Thursday – and we encourage you to share your thoughts in the comments section.