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An update from Detroit

Erica Pelletreau — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:30:00 +0000

The University of Detroit Mercy has been a key partner in our equitable development grantmaking. Here we are at their School of Architecture with a broad section of our grantees, including community development leaders and representatives of financial institutions.

“No matter how long you’ve been gone from Detroit, Detroit should always be a part of you— and you should always find ways to support your people.” Kevin Ryan, one of Ford Foundation’s senior program officers, knows the Motor City well: He’s led Ford’s grantmaking there since 2017, focusing on housing and community development, civic engagement, and youth opportunities.

A big part of Kevin’s work is figuring out how Detroit can recover from bankruptcy in an equitable way inclusive of all its residents. This means supporting many tireless community organizers, cultural leaders, and other changemakers across the city, as well as bringing them together to collaborate in new ways.

Here, Kevin shares recent photos of some of Ford’s local grantee partners and explains the impact they’re making citywide.

This was a team lunch with Henry Ford III, our board member based in Detroit. We were having a great conversation about our recent site visits. You can really see our camaraderie.

At the Skillman Foundation’s office discussing the importance of youth organizing in Detroit with them and the Kresge Foundation.

Alia Harvey Quinn is the executive director of FORCE Detroit; they co-hosted this meeting with the Hudson-Webber Foundation to discuss the community violence intervention work we’ve been supporting in Detroit. Alia is, to me, one of the best leaders in Detroit. She’s been able to build a coalition of citizen advocates, grassroots groups, and neighborhood organizations.

Sarida Scott is a professor at University of Detroit Mercy. She used to be a grantee of ours when she ran Community Development Advocates of Detroit, a citywide development advocacy group. Here we are at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture & Community Development.

Sonya Mays is the president of Develop Detroit, a citywide development organization. They build affordable housing in neighborhoods that have experienced decades of disinvestment.

Dream of Detroit is a Muslim-centered community organization group that does a lot of different work: organizing, equitable development, advocating for property tax justice. This is Dawud Clark, Dream of Detroit’s property manager. He joined Dream of Detroit and put his blood, sweat, and tears into rehabbing the transitional house you see here—and now he’s a homeowner in the neighborhood! Today, he works with other returning citizens to help them achieve that same dream of being able to come back and have a beautiful home to live in.

Ammara Ansariis on the development team of Detroit Action, a group that works toward economic and social justice with Detroit residents. Here she is sharing a story about engaging with the community.

Here are some of the leaders of Dream of Detroit, including executive director Mark Crain.

The Church of the Messiah hosted this conversation on equitable digital access. Talking here is Katie Hearn from the Detroit Community Technology Project; they developed the Equitable Internet Initiative, which we’ve been supporting for a number of years.

This was our meeting at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History about the state of arts and culture in Detroit. Five of our grantee partners joined. Detroit’s Arts, Culture, and Entertainment department, which we support, was also represented.

In Detroit, people feel positive about what we can achieve. Even though we have all these huge structural challenges, we’re not just grinding every day. There is space for joy.

We had dinner at the Muslim Center with Dream of Detroit and their partners. They were so, so generous with us.

Here’s a photo from the Black resilience history exhibit at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History – a long time and deeply valued partner to the people of Detroit.

Featured Grantees

Allied Media Projects, Inc.

Coalition for Property Tax Justice

Detroit Action Education Fund

Detroit Community Technology Project

Dream of Detroit

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147299 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

General support to support art, media, and technology projects working for social change and for core support for institutional strengthening

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148269 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

To Comfrey Films to participate in Creativity & Civic Space, a program that supports artists who are telling powerful stories about the relevance and importance of civic space & the participation of citizens on a regional, national, & international level

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148504 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Core support for Strategies for High Impact for education and advocacy centering long-COVID community

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145199 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

migrate — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Core support for Community Tech NY to collaboratively develop the Community Internet Trust, a model for cooperative broadband ownership (including jointly held real estate assets, workforce and community relationships) in the Bronx and Detroit

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143748 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

migrate — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Core support for the Critical Minded initiative to engage in research and grantmaking to increase resources for, and representation of, critics of color in cultural discourse in the United States

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145754 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Core support for “Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying”, a field guide, which will address the complexity of making accessible worlds through a book

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145053 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

migrate — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Core support for Decolonizing Wealth's Case for Reparations Fund to advance the case for economic reparations for black and indigenous people in the United States

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137701 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

migrate — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Core support for the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective for efforts to advocate and provide professional development and career sustainability for undocumented documentary filmmakers in the United States

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144918 – Allied Media Projects, Inc.

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Core support for an initiative that aims to bring together environmental and climate justice organizers and activists with abolitionists to decarcerate and liberate Black communities from pollution and imprisonment

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