Kids go off to school almost every day to learn reading, math, science and more. Now with the help Building Healthy Communities, they can also learn how to be a healthier person. For the ninth year, elementary schoolers can fight childhood obesity and get healthier with common sense solutions with the school-based wellness program’s help. […]
Anita Marsee loves peanut butter. One day she was munching on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when she suffered an asthma attack. It got worse and worse, her throat started to close and she was rushed to the ER. When it happened again and she ended up in the ER a second time, she […]
Everyone gets the point award-winning “Got Milk” advertising campaign featuring movie stars and sports heroes with a milk mustache. The idea was to get us to drink more milk – and to recognize that it’s good for you. It worked. That’s great, but to many children in Southeast Michigan that tagline is changed to “want […]
Won’t you be my neighbor … and my business partner? That’s what the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC) hopes to accomplish with its Detroit to Detroit, or D2D, buyers program. D2D helps small suppliers become “Buyer-Ready Businesses” and gives them a chance to make direct, face-to-face contact with buyers from big purchasing organizations and learn […]
It’s summer and the kids are out of school. For many of us the challenge is to find things for them to do to keep them healthy and busy during those months. But for many others, the challenge is how to feed their children breakfast. That’s true for more than half of Detroit’s children and […]
You know it’s summer in the city when events begin at the downtown Detroit’s five historic parks – Campus Martius Park, Cadillac Square, Capitol Park, Grand Circus and Paradise Valley’s Beatrice Buck Park It all started June 1 with Quicken Loans Summer in the Parks, featuring free entertainment daily, all summer long in the parks. […]
Danialle Karmanos had goose bumps. She was watching Detroit elementary school kids work it out on yoga mats practicing alongside each other. “There was energy happening and swirling in the room,” she says. “It was giving children who often live in extremely stressful situations inner peace.” That’s the goal of Karmanos’ Work It Out yoga […]
Building bridges is a great thing. They connect people and cultures, break down separation, and bring businesses to jobs and jobs to businesses. In short, they fill gaps. There’s a new bridge being built between Michigan and Israel. It’s part of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s (MEDC) Pure Michigan Business Connect program and is created […]
Pay for food or a car? On the surface it seems simple, until you factor in that you need a car to get to work so that you can pay for the food. Thanks to a high interest rate on her auto loan, that’s the trap LaTonza VanBuren found herself in until she was helped […]
There is no question we need a regional transportation system is Southeast Michigan. It will create jobs. It will help keep and attract talent. It will give us the same competitive advantage enjoyed by other major cities and regions that see more economic development because they have a strong transportation system. To drive those points home, the Detroit […]
