Baxter Community Center

☀️ Summer @ Baxter – Request for Proposals! ☀️

Baxter Community Center is seeking qualified instructors, organizations, and community partners to provide 6 weeks of summer programming beginning June 22, 2026.

We're looking for engaging programs in areas such as:

🔬 STEAM
💃 Dance
🎨 Art
⚽ Sports & Fitness
🎭 And more!

If you have a program that can inspire, educate, and engage youth this summer, we'd love to hear from you.

📅 Proposal Deadline: June 14, 2026
📝 Submit Your Proposal: https://bit.ly/SummerRFP

Last week, Baxter Community Center was honored to be highlighted for our continued partnership with the American Heart Association - Michigan at their Grand Rapids Heart Ball.

Together, we are dedicated to continue increasing access of fresh produce, health education, and lifesaving intervention skills in our community.

Another amazing plant sale is in the books! 💚

We can’t thank our incredible staff, interns, and volunteers enough for making this event such a huge success. From helping us sow seeds, to nurturing seedlings, transplanting, helping shoppers at the sale and more, we could not do it without you!

A huge thank you to everyone in our community who came out to shop the sale and support us as well! Every plant purchased helps us continue growing fresh, local food and expanding access to healthy produce in our community.

This year, we were able to provide more than 4,000 organic vegetable plants to our community while also planting in our own raised beds, which will help supply even more fresh produce to our Marketplace throughout the season.