100 Black Men and Focus: HOPE help Detroit fathers become extraordinary
Fatherhood is the focus of an initiative in Detroit started by the group 100 Black Men of Greater Detroit with support from Focus: HOPE. The “Extraordinary Fathers Academy of Detroit at Focus Hope” is...
View ArticleU of D Jesuit students play Santa to 40 families in Detroit
Students at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy are be too old to believe in Santa Claus but they are certainly are ready to play the part. Better yet. They are embracing the true...
View Article$1.5 million from Kresge Foundation funds projects to help 21 non-profits...
There will be more new parks, fewer abandoned buildings and vacant lots and more high school students working on revitalizing Detroit’s neighborhoods thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Kresge...
View ArticleFord donates $100,000 plus formula and diapers to Gleaners for those in need
putMore than 200,000 children in Southeast Michigan, nearly 20 percent of the kids in our region, don’t know where their next meal will come from. On top of that, oftentimes moms and dads don’t have...
View ArticleGetting to work: Why Detroit’s Workforce Development Board is poised for success
Detroit’s revitalization is intimately tied to one all-important aspect of any city’s economic prosperity: job creation. That is where the city’s new Workforce Development Board, even in its infancy,...
View ArticleDetroit’s points of light to be highlighted at volunteering conference
How many points of light do you think we have in Detroit? It’s many, many more and 1,000. We’ll get to show many of them off next week when the Points of Light Conference on Volunteering and Service...
View ArticleUniversity of Detroit Jesuit to celebrate decision to stay in Detroit 40...
Forty years ago President Fr. Douglas Keller, S.J., then president of the University of Detroit Jesuit, made an announcement that surprised many. The school was going to stay in the city and “remain in...
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