Community Organizations

17 Principles of Environmental Justice

17_principlesofenvironmentaljustice Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, in Washington DC, drafted and adopted 17 principles of Environmental Justice. Since then, The Principles have served as a defining document for the growing grassroots movement for environmental justice.

American Indian Health And Family Services Of Southeastern Michigan

The mission of AIHFS is to help ensure the survival of Native families and individuals by providing acceptable quality health care and by supporting the healing process. We encourage, educate and empower our clients as they seek and maintain wellness, and as they enhance the quality of their lives. We facilitate the quality and accessibility of comprehensive health care for the Native American community.

Beloved Community Center

The Beloved Community Center is committed to fostering and modeling a spirit of community based on Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of a “Beloved Community.” In this spirit, we envision and work toward social and economic relations that affirm and realize the equality, dignity, worth and potential of every person. Click on a working group to learn more about who we are.

Bridging Communities, Inc.

Based in Southwest Detroit, Bridging Communities Inc. is a grassroots collaborative involving local unions, businesses, residents, social service and faith-based organizations working together to create caring communities where people of all ages can live in dignity in Southwest Detroit. Our work improves the quality of life for the elders of Southwest Detroit by meeting their needs and the needs of the surrounding neighborhoods, through creative collaboration and innovative programming.

Cass United Methodist Church

The programs of CCSS began as a part of Cass Community United Methodist Church. The church is a diverse and vibrant congregation. The 11 a.m. Sunday worship services are loud and lively, mixing traditional music and liturgy with gospel selections, contemporary skits, and motivating sermons.

Throughout the week, the Cass congregation offers a variety of educational, recreational and volunteer activities that include weeknight programs for children and youth, an adult book club and cycling group, music classes and choir rehearsals, as well as men’s basketball.

Detroit Asian Youth Project

Through the Detroit Asian Youth Project, Hmong American and other Asian American youth in Detroit develop leadership skills and awareness of their identity, community, and social justice issues. DAY Project has had two successful summer intensive programs as well as a weekly mentoring program focused on preparing for college. The youth often collaborate with Detroit Summer on community projects.

Detroit Evolution

Promoting the Healthy, Sustainable, and Soulful Relocalization of Detroit.

Employment For Youth

FYI.. Please get the word out.

Maria Salinas

Executive Director

Congress of Communities

8638 W. Vernor Hwy.

Detroit, MI 48209

Phone: 313-384-2173 cell

Phone: 313-914-5315 office

Fax: 313-914-5316

From: Ed Egnatios [mailto:eegnatios@skillman.org]
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011

Good Neighborhoods Leaders:

The Earn and Learn program starts today. This is a subsidized employment
program targeting 18-24 year olds who are out-of-school and/or high risk.
This is a jobs program and is very positive in potential for our
neighborhood residents. There are only 850 slots over the next 18 months but
you can connect some of your young adults, especially young males of color,
black and brown, with this employment option which is supported with
learning opportunities and services.

To enroll, an applicant must visit a Detroit Workforce Development
Department One-stop Shop and receive a referral. This is a quick process
(as I have been told). These sites include the location at Conner and I94
multi-service center (on the east side); ACCESS employment center on Shaefer
(in Dearborn but is the largest provider of employment services to
Detroiters), and the center at Focus Hope ( Oakman and Linwood) in the NW
corner of Northend. There are other one-stop shops as well.

I know it is a holiday weekend but my concern is that this opportunity will
fill up fast and I want to have a strong percentage of our residents,
particularly young black and brown men of color, to have the opportunity to
participate in this. I also think that this program will be effective – both
in immediate income and in the potential for long-term successful
employment. Linda West and Southwest Solutions are running the program but
the referrals must come through DWDD’s one-stop shops.

Therefore, I need your help. Please help to get the word out asap…

Thanks.

Ed Egnatios

Edward S. Egnatios

Program Director, Neighborhoods

The Skillman Foundation

100 Talon Centre Drive, Suite 100

Detroit, MI 48207

313-393-1290 direct

313-393-1187 fax

eegnatios@skillman.org

Friends of Detroit

The Hope District is a community in Detroit, MI that starts on Van Dyke & Forest and ends at Cadillac. The organization’s mission is: Jobs & Affordable Housing for Everyone
It’s objectives are to:
Provide a Friendly Environment
Provide a Pleasant Experience for Volunteers
Provide Work Readiness and Skill Training using Technology
Provide Business Opportunity in Construction & Technology
Provide Housing Assistance and Jobs to Recent Immigrants
Provide Relevant Community Resources and Assistance
ProvideOne Major Annual Fund raiser a Year
The organization’s values include: being courteous, treating everyone with equal friendliness, and encouraging businesses to have a workforce reflective of the community.

Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation

The Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation (GRDC) works to preserve and revitalize the Grandmont Rosedale communities of northwest Detroit. We are a non-profit organization formed and operated by neighborhood residents who care about our community and want to see it maintained as a great place to live and do business.

Green Acres Woodward Civic Association

Green Acres Woodward Civic Association is a member of the neighborhood networking organization Neighborhoods, USA. Neighborhoods, USA is a national non-profit organization committed to building and strengthening neighborhood organizations. Created in 1975 to share information and experiences toward building stronger communities, NUSA now continues to encourage networking and information sharing to facilitate thedevelopment of partnerships between neighborhood organizations, government and the private sector.

Huntington Woods Peace, Citizenship,and Education Project

Huntington Woods Peace, Citizenship,and Education Project. We are residents of Huntington Woods, Michigan — joined by friends and activisits in neighboring communities — who are deeply troubled by our country’s current foreign policy. This reckless pursuit of war and aggression does not make us feel safer in our homes. In fact, it increases the threat of terrorism for all of us, and risks the lives of our young soldiers for ill-considered reasons.

Hush House

The Hush House offers leadership training, programs for homeless and low income families, space for community meetings and operates a community black world history museum.

Immigration and Economic Future

New Michigan Media Conference:
Immigration and Michigan’s Economic Future

Monday, July 18, 2011
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wayne State University
McGregor Memorial Conference Center and Community Arts Auditorium

The New Michigan Media Conference brings together policy and business leaders to discuss the impact of immigration in the state and regional economy. Highlighting this statewide conference will be Governor Rick Snyder, who will deliver his first major speech on this topic.

New Michigan Media is a network of the state’s ethnic and minority media. Their conference is presented in collaboration with Global Detroit; it is sponsored by the McCormick Foundation and the New Economy Initiative.

There is no cost to attend, and lunch will be provided.

RSVP at specialevents.wayne.edu/nmmsummer11conf.

For more information about New Michigan Media please visit us at http://newmichiganmedia.com/

James and Grace Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership

Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership – For nearly forty years, the Boggs’ home at 3061 Field St. has been a community center and think-tank drawing together individuals and organizations from diverse backgrounds. People from around the world have come to create and discuss visions and strategies relating to local community struggles, workers’ movements, and global campaigns for social justice.

Visit the Unending Conversations of Hope – BLOG

Latinos Unidos

We stand in active opposition to forces that suppress human dignity, freedom and justice. From a position of solidarity with those who suffer oppression and injustice locally and globally, MCHR will promote awareness and commitment to human rights through education, community organization, and action

Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs’ Call for Visionary Organizing

By: Matthew Birkhold
April 17, 2012

In response to a question regarding advice for young activists, 96 year old movement veteran Grace Lee Boggs recently told Hyphen Magazine that activists should turn our backs on protest organizing because it “leads you more and more to defensive operations” and “Do visionary organizing” because it “gives you the opportunity to encourage the creative capacity in people and it’s very fulfilling.” This quote made its way around facebook, twitter, and tumblr, as fans of Grace reposted it like it was common sense while others thought the quote bordered on conservatism.

READ THE ENTIRE ESSAY AT LEFT TURN

Michigan Coalition For Human Rights

Pax Christi Michigan

Pax Christi Michigan works to bring about peace locally, nationally, and globally through prayer, study, and action. We are rooted in spirituality, dedicated to studying issues of justice from the vantage point of all those involved, and espouse working for peace with justice through nonviolent conflict resolution

People’s Movement Assembly

The Peoples’ Movement Assembly (PMA) is a movement by the people, for the people, and of the people of Detroit

We stand on the principles of the Declaration of Human Rights, the Earth Charter, and the Environmental Justice Principles. From this frame we bring the voice of Detroiters in communities with no voice

We believe that Detroit has rich history and we want to build on existing strengths

* We believe in improvement of the quality of life of Detroiters by providing all with a quality education, and eliminating poverty, joblessness, homelessness, and pollution

* We believe in a grassroots approach and that self-determination should be the voice of the PMA and that the city’s foundations and funding communities cannot dictate the role of Detroiters without involving them in the consultation and planning related to their city.

Neighborhoods are communities that value their history, memory, and identity. These are assets that people need not only to survive but to thrive.

Rightsizing, in the guise of urban renewal without the full involvement and approval of the residents (bottom/up) will impoverish our city

We reject the notion that refusal of services as an “incentive” and reject this form of eminent domain through economic, social, and environmental coercion

Shrine of the Black Madonna

During the Civil Rights decade-the 1960s-Reverend Cleage became increasingly Afro-centric in his thought. He changed his name to Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman and then developed an Afro centric version of Christianity, so he renamed his church, The Shrine of the Black Madonna. He contended that Christ and many of his disciples were African in origin and suggested that Europeans had captured and twisted Christianity to assist in their enslaving Africans. He argued strongly for African American control of their own fate.

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at Michigan and Trumbull in Corktown, is a small discipleship community with a large legacy of ministry and hospitality. We have strong relationships with two Detroit Catholic Worker houses, The Jeanie Wylie Community and Day House. With the latter, we co-sponsor Manna Community Meal, a daily soup kitchen, and along with them are committed to urban gardening. Out of local need we are exploring community based restorative justice. Ministries hosted and begun at St Peter’s include: Freedom House, Alternatives for Girls, COTS (Coalition on Temporary Shelter), WARM Training, and Young Detroit Builders. Our Sunday worship mixes Anglican liturgy with Methodist, Taize chant with folk and gospel, sacrament with Word and contemplative prayer.

The Yes Farm

Inspired by our community, The Yes Farm is a collective of artists acting as urban farmers, teachers and builders in the Near East side of Detroit.

Fueled by social awareness and environmentally conscious actions: we re-purpose salvaged materials from abandoned and burnt-out houses and factories to rebuild our gallery and homes, work with our community to maintain and expand the large amount of cultivated land, and are personally determined to bring a more attainable understanding of the arts through hands-on workshops and informative art shows.

UNA Greater Detroit

UNAs are non-partisan secular groups working to support and inspire. The Greater Detroit Chapter hopes to build a river of friends who participate in love and service to our world through our talents, creativity, and sincerity.

As a local chapter, we are dedicated to help bring education, awareness, and inspiration to one another through our united efforts and collaboration with like-minded friends.

US Social Forum

The US Social Forum is more than a conference, more than a networking bonanza, more than a reaction to war and repression. The USSF will provide space to build relationships, learn from each other’s experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration. It will help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.

Veterans of Hope

The Veterans of Hope Project is a multifaceted educational initiative on religion, culture and participatory democracy. We encourage a healing-centered approach to community-building that recognizes the interconnectedness of spirit, creativity and citizenship. Our educational materials are designed to support reconciliation, nonviolence and an appreciation for the value of indigenous and folk wisdom for contemporary times.

WARM Training Center

WARM Training Center promotes the development of resource efficient, affordable, healthy homes and communities through education, training and technical assistance.