Rhoades McKee’s community involvement program is called Good Works. Striving to create ongoing, mutually beneficial partnerships, Rhoades McKee works with local nonprofit organizations to sponsor programs that will have a significant and noticeable impact in the community.

Each year the Good Works programs cover a range of causes in education, healthcare, and the arts.

2006 Good Works Programs

Rhoades McKee partnered with Baxter Community Center to provide backpacks and school supplies to 40 children in the Center’s daycare and mentoring programs. Baxter Community Center provides services to low-income individuals and families in the Baxter Neighborhood of Grand Rapids.

Rhoades McKee and Kendall College of Art and Design will again offer a holiday card design contest. The winning designer will receive a $2,000 scholarship. Second and third place scholarships will also be awarded.

Rhoades McKee is sponsoring sports physicals for 150 children in the Grand Rapids Public Schools. Catherine’s Care Center, celebrating their tenth year providing healthcare to the working poor, is offering sports physicals, free of charge, to students both at their clinic and at area schools.

2005 Good Works Programs

Rhoades McKee partnered with the Child and Family Resource Council and Grand Rapids Public Schools to provide 250 backpacks and school supplies for the students of East Leonard Elementary School.

Rhoades McKee worked with Kendall College of Art and Design to sponsor a holiday card design contest. Kendall students submitted holiday card designs. A panel of judges at Rhoades McKee selected Michelle Lindale’s design for the 2005 holiday card. The winning designer received a $2,000 scholarship award from the firm. Second and third place honors were also given.

Rhoades McKee sponsored a flu outreach program with Catherine’s Care Center, a healthcare clinic for the working poor housed in the basement of St. Alphonsus church in the Creston Neighborhood. In the fall, Catherine’s Care provided over 500 flu shots, free of charge, to underserved populations at senior centers and schools.