Join Us

Our History

In 2007 the Boggs Center and 32 endorsing organizations organized two events, one in April to commemorate Martin Luther King’s call for a Radical Revolution of Values in his 1967 anti-war speech and one in July centering around transforming despair to hope on the 40th anniversary of the Detroit rebellion. Many inspiring stories of grassroots activities and programs that Detroiters were creating or planned to create surfaced during these gatherings.

Participants wanting to continue to identify, encourage and promote these community initiatives and work towards creating a new infrastructure for our city from the ground up formed the Detroit City of Hope campaign. Examples of innovative grassroots activities range from urban agriculture to small business models, reinventing work and education to focus on community building and restorative justice initiatives, such as creating peace zones. Detroit City of Hope now launches an online space, that we hope will continue to document the community-building process in Detroit, making current initiatives more visible and facilitating further connection and cross-fertilization on the ground. In these times, we are feeing a tremendous groundswell of grassroots energy, it becomes our challenge as community builders to channel that energy into projects that capture people’s imagination, produce tangible results and leave us in awe of our collective potential.

In 2011, we changed our name from the Detorit City of Hope to the Detroit Community of Hope.

Join with the Detroit Community of  Hope Citizen’s Campaign to re-spirit, re-define and rebuild Detroit from the ground up!

NETWORK OF HOPE

These groups have identified themselves as organizations/individuals that share the vision and values of Detroit City of Hope and/or the Transforming Grief into Hope event.

DETROIT SUMMER
MATRIX THEATRE
MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT
BOGGS CENTER
PIONEERS FOR PEACE
DETROIT AGRICULTURE NETWORK
WORD & WORLD
HEIDELBURG
MICHIGAN CITIZEN
MICHIGAN COALITION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
The SHRINE of THE BLACK MADONNA
DETROIT BIONEERS
PAX CHRISTI MICHIGAN
CO-LAB CREATIVE
SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES
ST PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH – DETROIT
DADS FROM
DAY ONE
WORDS OF PEACE MICHIGAN
HUNTINGTON WOODS PEACE, CITIZENSHIP & EDUCATION PROJECT
ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE
LATINOS UNIDOS
CENTRO OBRERO – LATINO WORKER’S CENTER
THE CATHERINE FERGUSON ACADEMY
DOC ARMSTRONG – REDEMPTION MILE
FRIEND OF DETROIT AND TRI-COUNTY
BUKU PRODUCTIONS THEATER COMPANY
AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH & FAMILY SERVICES
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS FOR WORLD PEACE
The LAMP PROJECT
MICHIGAN PEACE TEAM
HUSH HOUSE 

The following individuals are involved the Transforming Grief into Hope event and/or have indicated their support for its vision and values

Harsh Agarwal
Althea Armstrong
Grace Boggs
Michelle Brown
Vince Carducci
Stephanie Chang
Doria Colson
Lewis Colson
William Copeland
Rich Feldman
Jocelyn Fitzpatrick-Harris
Saba Gebrai
Pamela Gibbs-Smith
Wendy Hamilton
Mary Heinen
Scott Heinzman
Elena Herrada
Matt Hoerauf
Shea Howell
Pat Kolon
Andrew Koper
Carmen Lane
April Lockhart
Jaime Nelson
Shaun Nethercott
Weusi Olusola
Vitorio Penzabene
Leah Pine
Kim Redigan
Gloria Rivera
Shari Saunders
Kim Sherobbi
Charles Simmons
Sandra Simmons
Larry Sparks
Rachael Tanner
Sterling Toles
Nickole Trujillo-Pagan
Alison Tschirhart
Kerry Vachta
Sarah Vidosh
Karen Walker
Victor Walker
Stephen Ward
Joanne Waszczak
James Wheeler
Michael Whitty
Mike Wimberley
Bill Wylie-Kellermann

---