Alternatives for Girls relies on community connections to stay open during COVID-19
We urge people to pay attention to others in their circle who may need help and not be in a position to ask for it.
Nonprofit Journal Project
Nonprofit leaders across southeast Michigan will share stories of nonprofit, government, and philanthropic sectors coming together to think bigger, solve problems, and execute transformative projects.
This series is made possible with the generous support of our partners the Michigan Nonprofit Association, Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation, and Co.act Detroit.
Poetry in a time of pandemic: Local women of color find voice in COVID
When COVID hit, all our plans and poems seemed irrelevant. But as the weeks wore on, the need for community and space to name our realities grew urgent.
How Pontiac’s Centro Multicultural La Familia stays connected to vulnerable clients during pandemic
After about a month of working from home, some of the clients started losing their jobs or receiving reduced work hours. We started receiving calls from clients needing help with paying for their rent, utilities, needing diapers for their children, personal hygiene items, and food.
Working for peace and justice through a racial equity lens
As the sense of urgency for peace and justice continues, we are really centering anti-racism and racial and economic equity as the lens through which all our work will flow.
Volunteering in the time of Covid-19 at Pontiac’s Micah-6
We had no volunteers, just as we were coming up on garden planting season. No volunteers and no plan on how to close the gap.
How Mariners Inn is navigating the pandemic to keep its vulnerable men safe
We were there through the construction of Little Caesars Arena and we plan to be here forever. We're not going anywhere.
‘Holding our future lightly’: How Michigan nonprofits have adapted and arrived at a new normal
"We can’t predict the future. Nobody can. So we’ve just given ourselves some grace."
Manistique Community Treehouse serves the Jefferson Chalmers community during the pandemic
We knew when the pandemic began that people were going to need food, need masks, so the very first week of the pandemic we started a project called the resource table at the community treehouse where people could give and take food and personal protective equipment.
Brilliant Detroit focuses on staying connected to the families it serves through the pandemic
Brilliant Detroit is set up to serve people and build relationships. And for us, relationships have been able to stay at the forefront of what we do, and it is the reason we were able to carry on right now and actually serve people.
Connecting with the community during COVID-19 means finding new ways to serve our neighbors
"We're trying to figure out how we can offer the same quality of connection and programming so that we’re able to continue to build relationships but not put anyone in danger or at risk."
