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Melinda Clynes

Melinda Clynes is a freelance writer and editor for Model D and other IMG publications. She is project editor of Resilient Neighborhoods, a series of stories on community-building in Detroit Neighborhoods, and project manager and editor of the Southwest Michigan Journalism Collaborative. View her online portfolio here.

Melinda Clynes's Latest Articles

Girl Scouts research is key to building today’s leaders

Want to know about girls in business startups, high tech, and cybersecurity? How about where girls stand on issues of equal pay and gender equality? Ask the Girl Scouts.

Zero-interest loans help Fitzgerald residents repair homes

More than 70 loans from Fitzgerald homeowners have been approved in a 0%-interest program designed to help residents repair houses in the neighborhood. With $1.05 million invested and 42 of those projects already completed, organizers want to get the word out. 

Yolanda Scarborough
Culinary educator brings families to Camp Dinner Table to teach cooking, foster engagement

Camp Dinner Table was designed for families to come back to the table to build family unity and cook quality meals together.

CHASS helps vulnerable patient populations access specialty health care in Detroit

CHASS, which turns 50 this year, is a community-based, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in southwest Detroit that provides care to underserved African American and Latino populations. It serves close to 11,000 patients a year, 70 percent of whom are Spanish speaking.

Derrick Adams comes to get his shoes shined around every other month at Reflections, and he has been a customer of Boggon’s for 40 years.
Jazz revival: Bringing back Red’s Jazz Shoe Shine Parlor in North End

North End leaders are working to bring back a legendary spot that once played host to the likes of Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson and honor legacy of shoe shine owner.

Phillis Judkins
North End Neighborhood Patrol looks out for neighbors — and ahead to the future

For years, the North End Neighborhood Patrol has kept watch over the neighborhood. But Phillis Judkins and her young ambassadors have a much bigger vision in mind for their neighborhood. 

Two Detroiters engage in a conversation during the Better Arguments event.
Can new and long-time Detroiters get along better by making better arguments?

Better Arguments brings newcomers and established Detroiters together for transformative dialogue.

Nicole Marie White, Jahmanna Selassie, and Heather Robinson are all co-founders of DPMC.
Detroit Pop-up Midwifery Clinic wants to get neighbors talking about birthing options

Detroit struggles with high infant mortality rates. But a local midwifery group wants to help change that with neighborhood discussions about birthing options.

Joe Dudek, employee at Quicken Loans, and his daughter Jillian
How Detroit businesses and institutions are contributing to employee welfare with on-site childcare

Childcare located right at the workplace may be the ultimate convenience for working parents. And it's also something that businesses and institutions in Detroit have recently been adding to improve the wellbeing of their employees. 

Kids painting at Detroit Parent Collaborative
It takes a village: This cooperative childcare center offers more than just a place to drop off kids

A Montessori, Waldorf, and Reggio Emilia-inspired pre-school for inquisitive kids, Detroit Parent Collective is also an affordable, non-judgmental, and work-friendly space. 

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