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Upcoming Events

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KIP:D Open Office Hours @ Gleaners

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Feb 4 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Central Detroit Christian CDC opened Art House in November with support from Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit. It provides space for local artists to teach classes and hone their crafts. From left: Central Detroit Christian Executive Director Lisa Johanon, experimental artist Billy Mark, photographer Yvette Rock.

Photo by Montez Miller for The Kresge Foundation.

The Kresge Foundation invites community-based nonprofits across Detroit to apply for a share of $1.5 million for projects that engage residents in revitalization.

The fifth annual round of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit will award grants of up to $35,000 for planning and up to $150,000 for the implementation of projects that reflect resident priorities to improve the quality of life in Detroit’s neighborhoods. (Grant guidelines can be found here in English. Application instructions are here in English. Additional languages versions are linked below.)

Since 2015, the initiative has supported the creation of an agricultural greenway and other green uses, the conversion of unused second-floor commercial spaces into residences, and it has brought and community organizations together for collaborations in parks. “We created this initiative because we know community-based groups and organizations across the city share residents’ desire for a better quality of life but need resources and technical support to turn their ideas into reality,” says Wendy Lewis Jackson, Kresge Detroit Program managing director.

Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit (KIP:D) has fostered more than 70 planning and implementation projects to date. Those projects have included the renovation of vacant buildings into a variety of productive uses from laundromats and coffee houses to community art spaces and retail spaces. (Learn more about KIP:D grantees named in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.)

“The outpouring of great, transformative ideas has been continually gratifying.” Jackson says.

Kresge granted $5 million during the initial three-year pilot phase of KIP:D. Last year, the foundation recommitted to an additional three years and $6 million. The foundation is now making $1.5 million annually in KIP:D grants to organizations and providing $500,000 a year to provide grantees with technical assistance to facilitate a network of shared learning and mutual support. Kresge is partnering with Michigan Community Resources provide that support to KIP:D grantees.

Michigan Community Resources is offering open office hours to provide individualized application assistance. Please see below for dates and times for these office hours. Please contact Amber Umscheid at aumscheid@mi-community.org or 313-949-7902 with any questions about open office hours:

Thursday, Jan. 24, from 3-7 p.m. People’s Community Church, 8601 Woodward Ave.
Wednesday, Jan. 30, from 2-6 p.m. Mexicantown Latino Cultural Center, 2835 Bagley.
Monday, Feb. 4, from 12-4 p.m. Gleaners, 2131 Beaufait.

Read KIP:D application guidelines and FAQs in English.

Read KIP:D application guidelines and FAQs in Spanish.

Read KIP:D application guidelines and FAQs in Arabic.

Read KIP:D application guidelines in Bangla. (Check back later for FAQs in Bangla.)

Read guide to applying for KIP:D in Kresge’s online FLUXX system.

Go to the online FLUXX system.

Detroit People’s Food Co-Op Board Interest Meeting @ DBCFSN Office

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Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm

The current board will hold a Board Interest Meeting to meet with interested member-owners to discuss the requirements and expectations of the position.

Feb

Tue

Deadline for CEDAM Board Submission

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Feb 5 all-day

CEDAM’s Board of Directors: Call For Nominations

CEDAM is seeking regional CDC representatives and at-large representatives to serve on our board of directors. CEDAM’s board consists of 18 members; 12 are CDC representatives with two representatives from each of the six regions across the state, and six at-large members.

Eligibility & Process

Board members serve a two-year term, and a board member may serve up to three consecutive full terms. In order to run for a regional CDC* representative position, you must be an authorized representative of a CDC that is a 2019 CEDAM member in good standing.

*A CDC shall be defined as a Michigan nonprofit corporation that has qualified as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization as defined by the Code, involved in planning and implementing community housing and economic development activities, projects and programs in its community.

CDC representative elections will take place in March. At-large elections will take place in April.

Commitment

Board members attend meetings every other month (call-in options are available), provide input on CEDAM’s future direction and programming and are actively involved in CEDAM committees or programs.

How to Run

If you are interested in running for a board position or have any questions, please send a brief bio and headshot to Chris Wardell at wardell@cedamichigan.org by Friday, February 22.

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