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A Positive Look at Perpetual Purpose Trusts, Three Years In

A regenerative path toward healthy, enduring organizational futures In her Sunday morning Substack, British-Turkish author Elif Shafak reflected—as so many of us are trying to do—on the uncertain state of the world. In her efforts … Continued

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Special Dinner: Jelly Bean Jump Up Hosts a Mini Camp Bacon

Celebrating SafeHouse Center, Nueske’s, and an amazing Corgi On Tuesday evening, March 31, we’ll gather to support SafeHouse Center, our local shelter for survivors of domestic abuse. It’s an especially meaningful evening for me—it marks … Continued

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Guatemala El Regalito at the Coffee Company

A beautiful brew from the coffee-growing star of Central America March means the rollout of a great newly-arrived single-estate coffee from Guatemala. What we’ve come to know here in recent weeks as El Regalito—“the little … Continued

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Martin’s Handmade Hard Pretzels at the Coffee Company

A Taste of Pennsylvania Dutch Country in Washtenaw County Sometimes we take things for granted. Or maybe it’s that we’ve subconsciously sloughed something off because our early-in-life encounters with it were wholly uninteresting. Even I, … Continued

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Bialys from the Bakehouse – Tuesday, March 3

A terrific traditional taste of Eastern Europe and the Lower East Even 43 remarkable years after opening the Deli, bialys are still mostly a mystery to folks here in Ann Arbor. While bagels long ago … Continued

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Roadhouse Reopens Post Renovation

Dozens of oysters are cracked open to toast the occasion Last Wednesday afternoon, after six weeks of being closed for intensive and extensive renovations to the kitchen and a host of elements in the dining … Continued