“We’re just residents. We’re trying to make it easier for everyday residents, like us, just to make their communities more successful,” says Kathy Temple, executive director of The Time is Now Douglass Redevelopment Corp.

How this group of ‘everyday residents’ utilizes a DIY spirit to transform their Douglass community

“We’re just residents. We’re trying to make it easier for everyday residents, like us, just to make their communities more successful,” says Kathy Temple, executive director of The Time is Now Douglass Redevelopment Corp.

“We're a finely-tuned machine if you ask me, and we're only gonna get better,” says Erskin Mitchell (right), founder of Successful Inc.
Memphis nonprofits partner with national foundation to provide musical instruments for area youth

“We're a finely-tuned machine if you ask me, and we're only gonna get better,” says Erskin Mitchell, founder of Successful Inc.

Dr. Sabrina Ford, an associate professor in the Michigan State University College of Medicine Institute for Health Policy, is leading a project to analyze and address the causes of disparity in ER follow-up care for Black patients.
Black ER patients are less likely to receive follow-up care, and this project is examining why

A new Michigan project is engaging community-based organizations to gather information on, and develop solutions to, disparities in ER follow-up care.

Central Detroit Christian CDC strengthens its equitable housing efforts for low-income residents

In our community, 61% of children under the age of 18 live in poverty," says Lisa Johanon, executive director of Central Detroit Christian CDC. "We do affordable housing so kids have a safe, stable place to live, and so they're not uprooted from their home five times during the school year. We're raising up a community of kids whose outcomes aren't dictated by their zip code."  

Paula Nelson, Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center president and CEO, with Jessica Horton, a former Sacred Heart client and now a Sacred Heart peer support coach.
Michigan’s recovery communities offer a “total ecosystem” of services for getting and staying sober

Recovery communities support a continuum of care by providing detox services, residential treatment, outpatient services, recovery supports, housing, and more.

Michigan nonprofits: Where are we now? MNA’s new president and CEO has her finger on the pulse

In her new role leading Michigan Nonprofit Association, Kelley Kuhn talks the need for funding, her team's efforts to increase support for BIPOC leaders, especially, what organizations are carrying forward in the new normal, and a desire for a seat at the table. "There's this amazing infrastructure in the sector, that if leveraged," she says, "is efficient, effective, and understands the community, and its needs."  

A #ShareYourSkill901 participant shows her written skill on a bookmark. (Photo courtesy of Literacy Mid-South)
Literacy Mid-South Encourages Memphians to #ShareYourSkill901
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Historic Lowenstein Mansion to be renovated, redeveloped as boutique hotel in Victorian Village
A father selects fresh-picked radishes at a local farm stand.
Creating sustainable, local food systems through food policy councils

This article is the second in a two-part series about food policy councils and how SNAP-Ed can help to inform that work. 

Creating pathways from conflict to healing and restorative justice, the Dispute Resolution Center

"Nationally, restorative justice has shown to cut recidivism rates by half," says Germaine Smith, assistant director of the Dispute Resolution Center in Washtenaw County. "It’s extremely successful because we get to the root of the trauma, or suffering, that brought everybody to that moment. The process goes deep, to consider how this harm impacts both individuals' lives. This is heart work, not head work."  

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