“What ya got cookin’”? That’s what many of us asked during the COVID-19 quarantine when comfort foods remained at the center of many conversations. However, those were not the words many restaurants heard over the last few months. Now that the state has authorized business re-openings, many struggling small businesses are looking for innovative ways […]
No one is sure what the next school year is going to look like. What is less of a variable is kids will need supplies, and many young Detroiters can’t get them. Samaritas is working to fix that with its annual backpack drive. The organization is asking people to donate 1,400 backpacks and the school […]
“Send these, your homeless, and tempest-tost to me.” This verse written on the Statue of Liberty are words the Samaritas Refugee Foster Care lives by. As the largest refugee resettlement agency in Michigan and fourth largest in the nation, it has resettled thousands of people from dozens of countries, many of them children without parents. […]
Over the last decade, small businesses have risen to become the face of Detroit’s comeback. Then in March, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the region, their very foundation and futures collectively became uncertain. The Inter-Faith Small Business Alliance (IFSBA), which works to foster a culture of small business, is working to help them get back […]