Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan (BGCSM) and small business incubator Ponyride have joined forces to help boost entrepreneurship in Detroit’s neighborhoods. The partnership will offer approximately 20,000 square feet of co-working and manufacturing space across three locations in Detroit and Highland Park. “Collaborating with Ponyride allows us to create a multigenerational pathway to […]
The TechTown Stabilization Fund (TTSF) closed with 347 grantees receiving a total of $575,000 in funding – adding to the 350 small businesses previously funded by TechTown’s Detroit Small Business Stabilization Fund. Together, the two funds funneled approximately $1.2 million into local small businesses in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The New Economy Initiative (NEI) donated $500,000 to enable TechTown to support local businesses […]
Recognizing Detroit as one of the hardest-hit COVID-19 regions in the U.S., and to help its neighboring communities most impacted by the virus, Amazon has donated $100,000 to Forgotten Harvest. The donation will provide more than 400,000 healthy, nutritious meals to those in need – specifically those struggling the most as a result of the […]
Many renters currently living in Detroit are looking to get out, and many of those looking to come into the region are looking outside the city. That’s the word from Apartment List’s 2020 Migration Report, which analyzes the metros people are looking to call their new home. According to the organization’s data, 46.8 percent of […]
Forgotten Harvest will distribute food at the following locations in Southeast Michigan this week. “Now more than ever, it’s vital that Forgotten Harvest is there to support the communities in need given the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Kirk Mayes, CEO and president of Forgotten Harvest. “We are increasing our food distribution site locations in order to […]
Here’s your chance to watch a terrific ice-skating show and help cure cancer at the same time. The Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation will bring a SK8 to Elimin8 Cancer fundraising event to the Frankenmuth Rink at Campus Martius Park on January 30. There will be performances by two-time national champion and CARES board ambassador Alissa Czisny […]
The CBD Confidence Survey series supported by CBD Marketing Hub, USA CBD Expo, CBD.io and the Insyght Institute, the nonprofit division of leading market research firm Target Insyght asked respondents “What primarily inspired your company’s founder to get involved in the CBD industry?” Fifty-six (56) percent of respondents reported that a personal, family member, friend […]
According to most CBD company founders, the momentum behind the “Green Rush” has little to do with money – it is more about how these founders realized their own lives or those of the people closest to them improved as a result of CBD. That’s just one of the findings of the CBD Confidence Survey, […]
Eligible homeowners living near FCA’s new assembly plant on Detroit’s east side will soon have extra dollars – up to $15,000 – to help with repairs. The money comes from FCA, which completed the transfer of $900,000 to the City of Detroit’s Housing & Revitalization Department (HRD). It is the first tranche of a $1.8 […]
The 9th annual Menorah in the D celebration will take place December 22 starting at 4:30 p.m. in Campus Martius Park. Family activities run from 4:30-5 p.m., followed by the official public lighting of a steel and glass menorah at 5 p.m. Thousands of children, families and individuals from Oakland, Wayne and Detroit are expected […]
