The Athletic Factory gets creative to get student-athletes to the next level amid a pandemic
The pandemic has allowed us — no, it has forced us — to be creative for what we can still do to impact the youth in our community.
Nonprofit Journal Project
Nonprofit leaders across southeast Michigan will contribute their thoughts via journal entries on how this unique confluence of events (COVID, vaccinations, climate change, racial justice, etc.) is affecting their organizations and the nonprofit sector.
The stories and journals will narrate through nonprofit leaders and capture the impact and vitality that these organizations bring to their communities as well as their journey during these unprecedented times.
This series is made possible with the generous support of our partners, the Michigan Nonprofit Association and Co.act Detroit.
Alternatives for Girls relies on community connections to stay open during COVID-19
We urge people to pay attention to others in their circle who may need help and not be in a position to ask for it.
Poetry in a time of pandemic: Local women of color find voice in COVID
When COVID hit, all our plans and poems seemed irrelevant. But as the weeks wore on, the need for community and space to name our realities grew urgent.
Working for peace and justice through a racial equity lens
As the sense of urgency for peace and justice continues, we are really centering anti-racism and racial and economic equity as the lens through which all our work will flow.
How Pontiac’s Centro Multicultural La Familia stays connected to vulnerable clients during pandemic
After about a month of working from home, some of the clients started losing their jobs or receiving reduced work hours. We started receiving calls from clients needing help with paying for their rent, utilities, needing diapers for their children, personal hygiene items, and food.
How Mariners Inn is navigating the pandemic to keep its vulnerable men safe
We were there through the construction of Little Caesars Arena and we plan to be here forever. We're not going anywhere.
Volunteering in the time of COVID-19 at Pontiac’s Micah-6
We love our groups who carve out a couple of hours to come and help us meet our mission of feeding and loving our neighborhood. We couldn’t do our work without them. And then it became pretty clear we’d have to do our work without them.
‘Holding our future lightly’: How Michigan nonprofits have adapted and arrived at a new normal
"We can’t predict the future. Nobody can. So we’ve just given ourselves some grace."
Brilliant Detroit focuses on staying connected to the families it serves through the pandemic
And importantly, not-for-profits, and Brilliant Detroit in particular, is set up to serve people and build relationships. And for us, relationships have been able to stay at the forefront of what we do, and it is the reason we were able to carry on right now and actually serve people.
Manistique Community Treehouse serves the Jefferson Chalmers community during the pandemic
We knew when the pandemic began that people were going to need food, need masks, so the very first week of the pandemic we started a project called the resource table at the community treehouse where people could give and take food and personal protective equipment.
