GivingTuesday is November 29, 2022. 

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

Wolverine Building Group and r.o.i. Design are working with Treetops Collective to remodel their building at 906 Division. Treetops is a cross-cultural movement that connects with and invests in New American women leaders in West Michigan. This will be the location of their offices, services, and community-building. Aaron Jonker, Co-President of Wolverine Building Group, reached out to r.o.i. Design for our design help and we have embraced this group and their vision. We have been working with them to provide interior design services at reduced rates, and have engaged our architectural and engineering friends to help.

Treetops Collective has two campaigns that we are promoting for this year’s GivingTuesday:

Capital Campaign for Building Renovation

This Giving Tuesday, Wolverine Building Group and r.o.i. Design are joining forces to raise funds to cover the plumbing costs in the catering kitchen and bathrooms at the cross-cultural community center Treetops Collective is creating in their building at 906 Division Ave S. Our two firms have already invested our skills into this space because we believe that West Michigan as a whole will benefit from a community center like this one.

If you would like to help with this goal, please click here. 

At the bottom of the page, you can click on “Give Now”. This will take you to their fundraising page. 

Readers for New Americans

Treetops Collective is currently engaged with and supporting 80 families that have newly immigrated to West Michigan. They have a goal to get Beginning Readers into each of these homes to build English language literacy.

If you would like to help with this goal, please click here. 

At the bottom of the page, you can click on “Buy Books”. This will take you to their Amazon Wish List.  

GivingTuesday is November 29, 2022. 

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

In celebration of GivingTuesday, r.o.i. Design is participating in a winter clothing drive to donate to Grand Rapids Neighbors for Neighbors.

Our community’s growth and health are our mission and future. We are collecting gently used or new Adult Winter Gear items at our office on behalf of Grand Rapids Neighbors for Neighbors. We will deliver all items donated on Nov. 29th.

Please consider dropping off any of these new or gently used items at our office, located at 1451 Front Ave. NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 between now and Nov. 28th:

• Coats & Jackets
• Stocking Caps
• Gloves & Mittens
• Boots
• Scarves
• New Socks
• Hand & Toe Warmers

If you have any questions or if you need help getting items to us, please contact our Studio Administrator, Rayanne  rayannerzepka@roidesign.com.

Our customer, First Companies, reached out looking for help with finish selections for Grace Christian University’s new townhomes that were being added to the campus, and we happily accepted. We have worked with First Companies on many projects and are always happy to meet and create relationships with their clients through the design process. Grace Christian’s team was amazing to work with; they knew exactly what they liked and didn’t like which helped keep this project moving forward and create a great end result.

For this project, we created an interior standard for the 29 apartments through the selection of luxury vinyl tile for the kitchen, living room, bathroom, and bedrooms, paint throughout the apartment, and millwork/countertops for the kitchen and bathrooms. Selections were also made for common stairwells and the community room. We were also asked to help with the furniture selection process and aid with furniture finish selections for the units to make sure everything worked well together.

We enjoyed being apart of this project and hope that it is a great environment for students for years to come.

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© All photos courtesy of First Companies