Recent Home Articles

ATHENA Awards Celebrating 25 Years in Grand Rapids

ATHENA Awards Celebrating 25 Years in Grand Rapids

ATHENA was created in 1982, from within the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, when Martha Mertz was the only woman on the board. "Neither my colleagues nor most community members perceived women as leaders. We didn't see ourselves as leaders, either, mostly...

ATHENA: Leading with Fierce Advocacy

ATHENA: Leading with Fierce Advocacy

Sharing one's passion and creating an unstoppable force for the greater good defines the ATHENA tenet Fierce Advocacy. We also concluded that Mary K. Hoodhood, founder of the hunger-fighting organization Kids' Food Basket, is the epitome of Fierce Advocacy. As part of...