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Michigan nonprofits: Where are we now? MNA’s new president and CEO has her finger on the pulse

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May 23, 2022

In her new role leading Michigan Nonprofit Association, Kelley Kuhn talks the need for funding, her team's efforts to increase support for BIPOC leaders, especially, what organizations are carrying forward in the new normal, and a desire for a seat at the table. "There's this amazing infrastructure in the sector, that if leveraged," she says, "is efficient, effective, and understands the community, and its needs."

Make food, not waste: 30 Metro Detroit food businesses to lead the US in sustainability pledge

By Sarah Williams

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May 17, 2022

In the food business, less is more. These 16 Metro Detroit food businesses have already started leading the country in a sustainability movement boasting economic, environmental, and community benefits. They're looking for more to join them.

If it ain’t fixed, break it: Nonprofits reimagine governance

By Sarah Williams

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March 30, 2022

As the sector faces growing complexities, many organizations are realizing their old ways of doing things are no longer working. Is now an opportunity to ask bold questions and create new visions of governance for the future?

Michaela Ayers at Room Project. Photo by Nick Hagen.

Room Project uplifts women and nonbinary creatives through community and collaborative leadership

By Sarah Williams

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February 1, 2022

“If you talk to women in journalism, women in publishing, I don't know anyone who doesn't have a story about an editor or a colleague who they thought was interested in encouraging them in professional terms, only to find out their interest was sexual or exploitative," says Room Project Founder Christin Lee. Here's how she and other womxn are changing the space.

Michigan Nonprofit Association launches Anti-racism Accountability and Action Cohort

By Sarah Williams

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January 19, 2022

“It's an opportunity for white leaders to better understand their whiteness, to deconstruct it and work for racial equity...people get to remain whole because that’s the goal, that people actually feel they have agency and power to change oppression and racism."

5 festive ways to engage with Detroit for a more magical season

By Sarah Williams

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December 7, 2021

With holiday festivities upon us, Detroiters are looking for ways to celebrate the season in the city we love. From art exhibits and installations to music and outdoor fun, here are some meaningful events and activities you and your family won’t want to miss.

Graduates of Detroit-based community incubator experience transformational support

By Sarah Williams

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December 1, 2021

"This cohort created a space for us to be vulnerable, transparent and to know that if we're the best human beings we can be ourselves, then we'll be the best leaders for our organizations," says Sherelle Hogan, founder and CEO of Pure Heart Foundation.

Alonzo Marable with daughter Kendall Marable and baby Teagan Photo by Nick Hagen..

Searching for Detroit’s middle-class

By Sarah Williams

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Community Development

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November 1, 2021

Will new families moving into Grandmont Rosedale plant long-term roots in the city, and invest their businesses, dollars, and time?

LGBTQ+ center stretches to increase care in communties near and far

By Sarah Williams

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Healthy Communities

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October 25, 2021

For over 30 years, Affirmations has been the hub of Southeast Michigan’s LGBTQ+ communities and their allies. In the heart of Ferndale, in a 17,000-square-foot building owned by the community (it’s mortgage is paid), people of all sexual orientations, identities, expressions and cultures find socialization, support and programming to enrich their lives.

What will the future look like for Southeast Michigan’s nonprofits?

By Sarah Williams

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Arts and Culture

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August 11, 2021

How has the storm of challenges in the past 18 months altered the nonprofit world, for better or worse, causing leaders to question and reimagine their systems of funding, models of work, governance and values?

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