Resilient Neighborhoods

Model D has teamed up with The Kresge Foundation for a reporting and engagement series looking at community-building in Detroit neighborhoods. The series seeks to raise awareness about the work of 21 Community Development Organizations (CDOs), known as Detroit 21, currently receiving support from Kresge, while also amplifying the voices of residents in their respective neighborhoods.

GRDC market team from left to right: Kitty Yarbrough, John Jones, Jr., Jocelyn Moss, JeNiece Freeman-Holt, Chelsea Salame, Keenan Terry.

Resilient Neighborhoods: This Detroit farmers market is reuniting neighbors isolated by the pandemic

A beloved Detroit farmers markets is back this season with some new  innovations.

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3 Lessons I learned while covering Detroit’s Resilient Neighborhoods during the pandemic

These are observations that came to mind while I was covering Detroit neighborhoods during the pandemic.

A bulletin board at Scripps Park.
Resilient Neighborhoods: This Detroit nonprofit is reconnecting neighbors at a Woodbridge Park

Disrupted by COVID-19, summer programming is getting back into swing a Woodbridge neighborhood park.

A rendering of DHDC's building remodeled for the Fantazma Market & Cafe.
Resilient Neighborhoods: New outdoor markets could give local-owned businesses a leg up in Corktown

These upcoming market spaces could be be boon for people-of-color-owned businesses in a historic Detroit neighborhood. 

A young neighborhood resident has some fun in front of a water cycle mural at the Hamilton Rainscape Learning Lab.
Resilient Neighborhoods: These east side groups are helping to reimagine sustainability in Detroit

These organizations are showing just how important community members are to building a sustainable future.

HOPE Village Farmers Market
Resilient Neighborhoods: How two Detroit nonprofits are bringing community into community health

These two Detroit community development organizations are doing their best to put the community back in to community health programming.

Members of the NRPCA take local youth on a costumed bike ride.
Resilient Neighborhoods: 5 Detroit neighborhood groups share their secrets to success

Detroit block clubs and neighborhood associations share stories that allowed them to grow and make an impact.

Katrina Johnson and Delawn Ross rented for 18 years before buying their home in Newberry.
This Southwest Detroit nonprofit program helps renters become homeowners

Detroiter Leslie Jackson's path to homeownership was made possible through an innovative initiative sponsored by the Detroit-based nonprofit Southwest Housing Solutions.

LifeBUILDERS youth play football with DeAngelo Mabone prior to the pandemic.
Resilient Neighborhoods: This faith-based nonprofit helped spark a revival in Detroit’s Regent Park

Over the last decade-and-a-half, an energetic community development organization has helped bring affordable housing and hope to a neglected corner of Detroit.

Volunteers help renovate Greenview-Wadsworth Park.
Resilient Neighborhoods: How a Cody Rouge nonprofit is moving forward with the power of block clubs

Interdependence is key to understanding this Cody Rouge development organization's relationship to its community.

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