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Comissioner, Stonewall Sports Detroit and Vice Chair, Michigan LGBTQ+ Commision Emme Zanotti Director of Advocacy and Civic Engagement, Equality Michigan Reid Beyerlein Co-Founder, Ties Like Me! AAPI HERITAGE MONTH In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are recognizing...
community engagementDetroitProblem, research strategy, and findings In 2016, Detroiters (MI) voted to pass the first-ever community benefits ordinance (CBO), a law that requires developers to negotiate with a council of local residents to agree on a set of community benefits. Drawing from the ...
To structure this experience, and further suggest therapeutic engagement, we designed an “intake form” for visitors to fill out before meeting with our designers-in-residence. The intake form included briefLikert scalequestions to gauge a sense of confidence or apprehension in what design can acco...
jobs in IT, and then again, with the train-the-trainer model, have more tech workers who are embedded in the community, and so we’ve, you know, extended this project to, uh, support entrepreneurs, uh, so Professor Julie Hui and ...
Such alignment requires officials and developers to increase their engagement with community members, importantly doing so in person, according to our survey respondents. It also requires them to be transparent about their decisions and explicitly discuss both the positives and negatives of projects so ...
community engagement and expanding the social safety net. A recent grant from the Knight Foundation’s Tech for Engagement initiative will allow Benevolent to expand from Chicago to Charlotte, NC, and Silicon Valley, and additional contributions from Fisher Family will fund a Detroit program. Under ...
After a temporary pause on door-to-door canvassing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rocket Community Fund returned to in-person canvassing for Neighbor to Neighbor in Detroit in 2023. The program, conducted in collaboration with community organizations, Wayne County, and the City of Detroit, cont...
but a few of us wanted to offer some kind of engagement with your writing sinceyou addressed our group specifically. We hope that this response will be taken in the spirit of“calling in”with compassion rather than calling out with judgment and self-righteousness. You are right that“Women ...
Scott credits the bill's passing in part to their successful community engagement strategy. "We had a canvas team that hit over 14,000 houses," she says. "We talked to everybody, knocked on doors, and people remembered that. So when there were public hearings, we were able to bring eve...