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 […]
One consistent thing that happens at the Mackinac Policy Conference is someone (or multiple someones) has to ask: What, if anything, happens when business leaders, governmental representatives, philantropists, educational experts and the media are stuck together in a hotel for four days? The typical answer is – or, at least, the expectation of those naysayers […]
What is the future of the art world? That is a hard question to answer, but on Thursday, June 2 you can see the possibilities. The Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies’ Night of the Arts (NOTA) will be a four-floor exhibit of K-12 students’ work at the A. Alfred Taubman Center of Design […]
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 […]
Detroit’s neighborhoods are the window into the city. Now that window will be filled with more green parks and views of children playing on playgrounds. It’s all made possible under an $11.7 million plan just laid out by Mayor Mike Duggan and City Parks & Recreation Department officials. It’s found money. In his budget address earlier […]
Raising a child in the second decade of the 21st century is difficult. The tools and resources they need to succeed are oftentimes overwhelming. There are answers and they start with learning good nutrition and having access to healthy food choices. That is a family issue and community challenge. Something needs to change in our […]