The 2013 Experience Grand Rapids Visitor's Guide is here! Serendipity Media partnered with Experience Grand Rapids on publishing this year's visitors guide. Grand Rapids as a community certainly offers much to do—for a multitude of interests—and we covered them all in this comprehensive guide to everything that makes up our thriving community. You can view the 2013 Visitor's Guide right now on any device by simply clicking here.

We encourage you to check out some of the great editorial in this year's guide, featuring our foodie culture, love for beer, family-friendly events, museums, festivals, and other activities. Flip through the book, print pages of interest, and click links to bonus content and videos! You can request your free copy in the mail by visiting here.

September 2012--The ATHENA Young Professional Award recognizes an emerging leader for their contributions to community, professional excellence, and commitment to serve as a personal and professional role model to young women.

The Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce proudly presents the following top ten finalists for the 2012 ATHENA Young Professional Award:

• Ellie Andrus, Make-a-Wish Michigan
• Sara Binkley-Tow, MomsBloom
• Bridget Clark Whitney, Kids' Food Basket
• Amy Marshall, Management Business Solutions
• Jennifer Pascua, WZZM 13
• Kristin Revere, Revere Consulting LLC
• Kasie Smith, Serendipity Media LLC
• Adrienne Wallace, 834 Design & Marketing
• Lynee Wells, Williams & Works
• Milinda Ysasi Castanon, Herman Miller

The selected award recipient will be named from among these finalists. The announcement will be part of the ATHENA Award Celebration set for Tuesday, September 18 at the JW Marriott International Ballroom, 235 Louis Campau St. NW. The top ten ATHENA Young Professional Award finalists will be honored along with Gemini Editor Carole Valade, the 2012 ATHENA Award recipient, during the luncheon that begins at 11:30 a.m. Finalists for both awards will be special guests at a private reception prior to the luncheon event sponsored by Huntington Bank as well as recognized during the award program.

About ATHENA Grand Rapids
A program of the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, the ATHENA Award and ATHENA Young Professional Award are offered to help support, develop, and honor women leaders in Grand Rapids. The ATHENA Leadership Model® from ATHENA International identifies eight distinct attributes that are reflective of women’s contributions to leadership: Authentic Self, Relationships, Giving Back, Collaboration, Courageous Acts, Learning, Fierce Advocacy, Celebration and Joy. Find out more about these tenets at our webpage: www.grandrapids.org/athena-award-program

August 2012 -- Serendipity Media celebrates its tenth anniversary and launch of its first local magazine, West Michigan Woman, with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. to celebrate and unveil the inaugural issue of West Michigan Woman magazine, the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce will honor Serendipity Media with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the offices of Serendipity Media, LLC located at 535 Cascade West Parkway in Grand Rapids Township. Public is invited to attend the event.

July 2012 -- Our Publisher & President, Kasie Smith, was recently interviewed by Rapid Growth Grand Rapids, an online news outlet focusing on local development, businesses, and people within the community. With the launch of our newest publication, West Michigan Woman, we've been brought to the local limelight for the first time in our 10 year history.

Read the full story here.