All over Metro Detroit, families are struggling to make sense of life under quarantine. Some parents have been sickened by the virus, others have lost jobs. For many local kids, the lockdown has meant being stuck at home, isolated from friends and unable to learn in the way they've grown accustomed to at school. Here's how local grassroots organizations are mobilizing to help.
To meet the need, local organizations have been shifting their work and accelerating their efforts in response to the crisis. However, the increased demand for services also means increased demand for funding, which is likely to overwhelm already strapped organizations, and financial support from partners will be crucial in serving the most vulnerable.
As a key part of Gleaners’ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education work, funded with grants from Michigan Fitness Foundation, the food bank works to address the long-term systemic problem of hunger.
La Casa Guadalupana offers Adult Basic Education (ABE) and General Education Diploma (GED) classes four days a week. Both are taught in Spanish.
Community Care Circles allow participants to engage in a multi-layered communal process of healing, sharing, listening, support, reflection, and transformation.
After efforts to reinvent itself as a graduate-only institution couldn't help save it, what's next for the students of Marygrove College and how will its closure affect the neighborhood?
Metromode's new series profiles Metro Detroit's rich fabric of immigrant culinary artists. First up: Seifu Lessanework of the Blue Nile.
Fixing up local homes and finding people to own and live in them, however, is only a part of what’s happening in Fitzgerald. Over the last two years, the community has been home to a special initiative led by the City of Detroit called the Fitzgerald Revitalization Project that’s taking a comprehensive approach to redeveloping the area on a neighborhood level.
The vast majority of the new public art pieces — 90 percent — have been created by Detroit artists with connections to the neighborhood.
Dream of Detroit, which has roots in the city's Muslim community, is combining community organizing with housing and land development to revitalize a west-side neighborhood.
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