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Focus: HOPE was established in Detroit, Michigan, in March, 1968 by co-founders Father William T. Cunningham, Father Jerome Fraser and Eleanor Josaitis.At the time the social environment in northern Detroit was one of severe racial tension as a result of the 12th Street Riot of the previous summer.
Keep Growing Detroit is an organization dedicated to food sovereignty and community engagement in the cities of Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park. [1] Founded in 2013, the program designs and implements initiatives that promote the practice of urban agriculture as a mode of food justice for underrepresented communities, particularly those who do not have access to healthy food options. [2]
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This is equivalent to about 1,500 meals a day or 300,000 hungry people a year who are in the Detroit area. This allows their clientele to be offered three meals a day, six times a week. [ 54 ] Earthworks provides and grows food for the CSK through three gardens on a 2.5 acre certified organic farm.
The Coleman A. Young Municipal Center is owned and operated by the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority, which was created in 1948 by the Michigan Legislature. [2] The building contains a library, a courthouse, and the city hall. When it opened, the City-County Building replaced both the historic Detroit City Hall and Wayne County Building.
Ferguson Academy for Young Women (profile) - Detroit Public Schools (archive) "Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women in Detroit." - From Grown in Detroit film page; Some pictures of the school and urban farm , DetroitFunk (blog), 2011. "Connecting with at-risk kids is the key to DPS turnaround", The Detroit Free Press, April 23, 2010.
The Detroit Waldorf School is a private PreK-8 Waldorf school located at 2555 Burns, Detroit, Michigan, United States, in an Albert Kahn-designed school in the historic Indian Village neighborhood. In 2016, the building was designated a Michigan State Historic Site . [ 3 ]
Nicholas Hood, Sr., who had operated the Plymouth United Church of Christ Day Care Center, established a day school division in 1974. Nicholas Hood, III took control of the school in 1984. The Plymouth Day School was incorporated as a private school in 1985. The school moved to a new location in 1990, and it began to cover grades K-5.