Give the Gift of Vibrant LivingAs we enter the season of giving, and the end of the calendar year approaches, you may be considering ways you can make a meaningful difference for the causes you care about, while also realizing a tax savings for you. With your Individual Retirement Account qualified charitable distribution (QCD), you […]
Meet Our Donors: Will Epps IV Shares Passion for Affordable LivingWill Epps IV experienced what it means to have unstable housing as a child growing up in Flint. Today, affordable housing is a passion he pursues in his work in real estate as an operations executive at McKinley and as founder of The Beetle Project, a […]
UMRC-Porter Hills Foundation Receives Grant for Exhale – The Family Caregiver InitiativeNovember is National Family Caregivers Month, a time to recognize and honor the vital work of family caregivers across the nation, raise awareness of the challenges they face, and offer ways to increase support for those who provide so much care and compassion for […]
Back to School with the UMRC-Porter Hills Foundation Scholarship ProgramIt’s that time of year—everyone is going back to school. That includes some of our Brio Living Services team members, thanks to the UMRC-Porter Hills Foundation Team Member Scholarship program! We are pleased to highlight some of our recent Scholarship recipients!Angela Edward: Thanks to her Foundation […]
Meet Our Donors Reezie DeVet: Having a Ripple Effect Through Her Giving Catherine “Reezie” DeVet had worked in healthcare for much of her career when she joined the Porter Hills corporate board in the 1990s. Still, the concept of a continuing care retirement community, or CCRC, where older adults could receive the level of care […]
Brio Living Services Named a Best and Brightest Company to Work For® in the Nation for 2nd YearSenior living organization Brio Living Services, formerly United Methodist Retirement Communities (UMRC) & Porter Hills, is proud to announce that it has been named to the 2024 list of Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in the […]
Rose Pest Solutions: Family Ties and Commitment to Team Rose Pest Solutions, Lead Sponsor for the UMRC-Porter Hills Foundation’s Giving Gratitude events in 2022 and 2023, has a long family history. Russ Ives, Brio Living Services Board member, and his brother, Jim, represent the third of four generations of the Ives family to be part […]
Mia Larson: Fulfilling Her Dream of a Career in Healthcare Since she was a kid, Mia Larson always wanted to work in healthcare. She completed her CNA training at Kent Career Technical Center while still a high school student. As part of the program, Mia says, “There was a mock practice interview with Porter Hills Village. […]
