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 […]
When Sheilah Clay became CEO of Neighborhood Services Organization 16 years ago one of her goals was to end homelessness as we know it. She’s making progress and other organizations are also picking up the momentum and developing some spectacular solutions. “We are working to rapidly re-house the homeless population to break the cycle of […]
It’s no exaggeration to say the world awaits Detroit – seeking its ideas, its creativity, its designers and their dreams, its manufacturing prowess and its gigantic imagination. To that end, the Detroit Creative Corridor Center (DC3) announced Thursday at the Mackinac Policy Conference the launch of the ten-year Detroit City of Design initiative. Now in […]
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 […]