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.

Volunteers help seniors move back into their apartments after summer flooding.

Resilient Neighborhoods: Disastrous floods inspire SW Detroit nonprofit to pursue emergency planning

This Detroit nonprofit is looking into disaster preparedness planning  after summer flooding displaced a group of local seniors.

Youth involved with UNI take a selfie at the LOS HQ opening.
Resilient Neighborhoods: This new youth center just opened its doors in SW Detroit

Young people have played a vital role in the development of this new community center in Southwest Detroit.

An exterior view of the Brighter Detroit Community Center.
Resilient Neighborhoods: This East Side community center is on a path to reopen after years in limbo

A Detroit entrepreneur and a Catholic nonprofit are teaming up to bring a once iconic community center back to Detroit's East Side.

CoC Youth participate in a march for racial justice.
Resilient Neighborhoods: Here’s how a Detroit nonprofit is growing social justice youth programming

This southwest Detroit nonprofit puts youth in the driver's seat when it comes to learning about racial and social justice issues. 

An inside view of Peaches & Greens new mobile market.
Resilient Neighborhoods: New director Fikre Prince wants to build on this Detroit nonprofit’s legacy

A new mobile market and an expanded focus on affordable housing are just a few of the new developments happening at this Detroit CDO under the guidance of its new executive director.

Youth participate in a GDYT program with CRCAA prior to the pandemic.
Resilient Neighborhoods: This Detroit nonprofit is helping youth prepare for jobs and create art

Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance offers programming to help young people find jobs and process pandemic stress.

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.

Detroit 21 map
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. 

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