Meet our friends from VegLife Des Moines for cookies, tees and good times.

Meet our new friend Aaron Tinder - he teaches in the Department of Art at Grandview University and makes incredible things.

Our definition of a maker is any one person or group of people who have created something for themselves or their community from a place of passion and love. That’s why we are excited to highlight the Des Moines Area Hunger Hike and their efforts to bridge the hunger gap near and far.

Meet our friend Sara Routh — an acoustic, jazz-folk singer/songwriter who tells life's adventures through music.

Meet our friends T.J. and Aaron. A couple of average (but wonderful) guys with a mission to bring excellent coffee and meet you where you are.

We are so pumped to share space with Marnē at our second Friday Friends event on 6/28. We met the woman behind Marnē when we teamed up with Lululemon DSM last year and fell in love with her passion to provide the DSM community with quality wears that invest and focus on fair trade practices.

Run by Ben Brackett, Matt Ream and Sean Holmes, their mission is to build upon and bridge gaps between the existing opportunities and soccer community — while providing local adult soccer players an opportunity to continue their love for the game through meaningful training and games.