Healing justice group Healing By Choice! engages community in wellness activities
Community Care Circles allow participants to engage in a multi-layered communal process of healing, sharing, listening, support, reflection, and transformation.
Detroit Innovation
Detroit Innovation is a series highlighting community-led projects that are improving the vitality of neighborhoods in Detroit, while recognizing the potential of residents to work with partners to solve the most pressing challenges facing their communities.
The series is supported by the New Economy Initiative, a project of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan that's working to create an inclusive, innovative regional culture.
HUDA Clinic prescribes food as medicine for uninsured Detroiters
The clinic, which offers free health care for uninsured and underinsured patients, supplies free fruits and vegetables to help patients address their health through their diets.
We Found Hip Hop offers safe space to help propel hip-hop careers for women and girls
Piper Carter and Nina Payne created the social enterprise to develop artists by investing in people and producing events that provide platforms to elevate or introduce new artists, as well as to educate women on staying safe in the industry.
Ronald Cannon’s Cardinal Foundation clears the way for a safer Detroit for west-side kids
How a small but mighty crew of kids and adults rolled up their sleeves on a muggy Saturday afternoon and got to work clearing blight on one block on Detroit's west side.
Southwest Detroit native makes his mark on neighborhood with Stitching Up Detroit
Screen printing helped steer Southwest Detroit native David Camarena off the wrong path as a youth. Now he wants to do the same for others through Stitching Up Detroit.
Medicina Urbana enters second year of serving Southwest Detroit
Located on a vibrant commercial corridor of Southwest, many of Medicina Urbana's patients can walk to the clinic from their homes instead of having to drive long distances or rely on public transportation.
Kerrie Trahan’s Yoganic Flow brings yoga to Detroit’s underserved communities
Kerrie Trahan first discovered yoga in Seoul, South Korea. But it wasn't until she brought it home to Detroit that she realized its full potential to heal communities.
Garage Cultural director Amelia Duran aims to help Southwest Detroit’s kids hang onto heritage
Southwest Detroit's culture and creative talent will be the focus of NOIS, a community arts hub adjacent to Garage Cultural.
How a cross-cultural coalition is making a ‘Dream of Detroit’ real in one Motor City neighborhood
Dream of Detroit, which has roots in the city's Muslim community, is combining community organizing with housing and land development to revitalize a west-side neighborhood.
Fitzgerald resident hula hoops for fitness, bringing the community along with her
With hula hoops, bubbles, music, and a big smile, Bernadette King is bringing back an old form of exercise to her Fitzgerald neighborhood.
