Warrendale-Cody Rouge to create child-centric neighborhood

Warrendale-Cody Rouge to create child-centric neighborhood

Kids are indeed Detroit’s future so creating neighborhoods that encourage their growth and success is essential. Warrendale-Cody Rouge area, which has the highest concentration of school-aged children in Detroit, has a plan to accomplish that. It is working with the City of Detroit’s Planning and Development Department and partners to create a strategy to improve […]

Have an idea to support youth of color in Detroit? Check out $500,000 Innovation Challenge for funding

Have an idea to support youth of color in Detroit? Check out $500,000 Innovation Challenge for funding

The Skillman Foundation and the Campaign for Black Male Achievement have launched their second Detroit Innovation Challenge, which will invest $500,000 in programs to improve life outcomes for youth of color in Detroit. “Detroit has a unique opportunity to become a model of an inclusive city, where all citizens are acknowledged as assets,” says Tonya […]

Detroit Neighborhood residents are urged to prepare and plan for growth

Detroit Neighborhood residents are urged to prepare and plan for growth

There’s good news on the horizon for the many Detroit neighborhood residents who’ve largely felt left out of the tidal wave of investments responsible for the transformation of downtown and Midtown. Their time is coming, say financial institution executives interviewed by TheHUB. Although sizeable opportunities exist for explosive growth, residents and financial institutions alike must […]

Clippert Academy 7th grader’s artwork to become float in America’s Thanksgiving Parade

Clippert Academy 7th grader’s artwork to become float in America’s Thanksgiving Parade

America’s Thanksgiving Parade is going to have a very special meaning for Yuliana Ortiz, a seventh-grade student from Clippert Academy. As the winner of the 26th Annual Skillman Foundation’s Float Design Contest, she’ll see her design, “The Snowing Mountains,” come to life in a larger-than-life Skillman float that will travel down Woodward in the 91st […]

ARISE Detroit! documentary celebrates decade of bringing neighborhoods together

For years hundreds and hundreds of Detroiters have worked behind the scenes to improve the city and its neighborhoods. They were here before business moguls began buying buildings downtown Detroit. Before national retail chains and restaurants came back to the city and before hipsters and the new creative class started discovering Detroit. Their work and […]

Detroit-based business celebrates 35 years of fabulousity Friday

Detroit-based business celebrates 35 years of fabulousity Friday

Full-figured wasn’t always fabulous for Sharon DuMas. As a teenager, she was often overlooked by boys, even told by a counselor that a secretary’s job would suit her better than a position of leadership. But not only did DuMas go on to occupy leadership positions, she embraced her self-image and started an organization to help […]

Dream Factory: Brothers prepare youth for business ownership

Dream Factory:  Brothers prepare youth for business ownership

For brothers Aaron and Eric McCloud, owning businesses became a common goal as they entered adulthood. Years later, they see the tools they developed while traveling the road to entrepreneurship as some of the same lessons they’ve begun using to help Detroit youth excel. The McClouds co-founded the Dream Deferred Project, a company created to […]

GM pilots STEM Camp in Cody Rouge Community

GM pilots STEM Camp in Cody Rouge Community

More than 2,500 GM volunteers put on work gloves, work boots and safety glasses and headed for the Cody Rouge community for the company’s week-long volunteer event July 24-28. Volunteers came from all levels of GM’s Detroit operation including Chairman Mary Barra, who spent time working in the community. Besides painting, cleaning, gardening and doing […]