After years of financial challenges, Marygrove recently embarked on a new direction, embracing a cradle-to-career approach to education. But this reinvention wouldn't have been possible without a number of local partners.
Juan Carlos Dueweke-Perez started Featherstone Moments, a marketing company, to close the gap in minority business ownership by helping people of color attain resources and capital.
A partnership between a number of community organizations, Fox Creek Artscape will feature a pavilion for community meetings and gatherings, a street-side fruit stand, public art space, extensive landscaping, and more.
Now in its seventh year, DTX Launch Detroit pays participants a $2,500 stipend per individual, or up to $7,500 per team, for college students or recent graduates to work on their tech startups.
We spoke with several longtime Detroit residents to get a sampling of what they think about all the changes that have taken place over their lifetimes.
Grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 are available to organizations looking to implement one of DFC's lot designs from their Field Guide.
With its long history of sailing and boating, Jefferson Chalmers is unique in Detroit due to its orientation away from the road, and towards the water.
In Michigan cities, corner grocery stores don’t always increase access to healthy produce. In Detroit and Flint, some researchers are taking a closer look at customer service as a barrier to food access.
These initiatives forge private-public collaborations to create systemic improvements in health and wellness across multiple counties.
Being completely snowed in is a common problem for seniors in Detroit. That's why the city launched The Detroit Snow Team, a volunteer effort to help seniors and the disabled with winter weather.
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