Nonprofit Detroit Mental Health takes events online
Throughout the month of May, Detroit Mental Health is hosting Instagram live streams to showcase tools that Detroiters can use to improve their mental health and increase resiliency.
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Partner Partner Content Eastern Market vendors — and the market itself — adapt in the wake of COVID-19
With drive-through markets, online ordering, and 2020 Flower Season, Eastern Market vendors and the partnership find ways to adapt amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Serial entrepreneur Tatiana Grant launches 2050 Partners Inc.
Serial entrepreneur Tatiana Grant on carrying on Marlowe Stoudamire's work through her new agency 2050 Partners, the future of hosting events, and why she doesn't regret not getting back into the food delivery business.
Bea’s Detroit wants to help small businesses flourish with art garden on Dequindre Cut
Several 3-by-3 canvases featuring local small businesses have popped up in Bea’s Small Business Art Garden next to Bea’s Squeeze lemonade stand, which launched in 2019 on the Dequindre Cut as a pop-up to market Beatrice and Eli Wolnerman’s upcoming coworking space in Eastern Market.
Model D launches crowdfunding campaign
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Shifting gears: As Detroit Bikes’ sales soar, company taps supply chain to buy PPE to help fill gap
In a nationwide trend, shops across the country have seen an uptick in sales. And for Detroit Bikes, known for its commuter bikes and models such as the Sparrow, sales have not only skyrocketed but it’s also presented a “heck of a side business”: buying and selling personal protective equipment to organizations that need it most.
Vanguard CDC starts distributing masks, gloves to residents of North End
How a community development corporation got into the personal protective equipment distribution business to serve the North End.
Detroit photographer captures life in the ‘new normal’ through Front Porch Project
With COVID-19 affecting his marketing and communications business (there are no events now and small businesses are struggling), Andre Terrell McWilliams launched the Front Porch Project. Through the project, he goes to Detroiters’ homes and takes their portraits from at least 6 feet away and up to 10 feet to adhere to social distancing guidelines.
Yum Village in New Center launches market pantry
The Afro-Caribbean restaurant will offer packaged snacks and foods to go as well as meal kits so customers can make Yum Village staples such as jerk chicken, jollof rice, and maafe at home.
Desai Sethi Foundation’s COVID-19 grants support community-based solutions
Winning projects so far include street outreach to people experiencing homelessness, a campaign to hire restaurateurs to feed marginalized communities, and 3D printed face shields.
