Melinda Clynes's Latest Articles
Partner Partner Content 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.
Partner Partner Content 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.
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.
Partner Partner Content 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.
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.
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.
Can new and long-time Detroiters get along better by making better arguments?
Better Arguments brings newcomers and established Detroiters together for transformative dialogue.
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.
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.
