Detroit Giving Back Category

Your mission, should you choose to accept it…? 365 days living, working, playing in and giving to the city of Detroit. What’s to be gained from it? Not just one year of experience for your résumé, but the experience of a lifetime…  And that’s not just for those selected to participate in the Challenge, [...][...]

I’ll confess. I didn’t actually watch the Oscars. I had no way to—why would I pay for cable when I have the city to look at, the city to go into…? But I digress. Like so many of the Oscar acceptance speeches. And that is what this is really about. I, like everyone else in the immediate reach of any medium of [...][...]

Detroitbigfdeal.com Lately, Detroit’s been on a crowdsourcing kick. It was Kickstarter that funded, among other projects,  the soon-to-be-constructed Robocop statue in Tech Town; another online donation site, thepoint.com, raised money for an art installation in Woodbridge’s Scripps Park. Even nonprofit [...][...]

Several neighborhoods in the city are getting a facelift and more, courtesy of a nearly $1 million Federal grant to make Detroit homes safer and healthier for families. Accepted nearly two weeks ago by Mayor Dave Bing, the grant money will be used to address the issues of lead poisoning and resulting asthma that [...][...]

Repairing 40 homes in 40 days. That’s the goal of Tim Addy, founder of Handyman Ministries, a nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing neighborhoods. The organization is taking donations to help fix up the homes, operating almost entirely through volunteers to make a positive difference in Detroit and beyond. The [...][...]

If you’ve ever taken a stroll downtown to one of our three world-class casinos, a new development in Detroit may be of interest. Though the thrill and hope of winning keeps drawing us to MotorCity Casino, MGM and Greektown, a new charitably-focused option has emerged. A fun way to give back to the community while [...][...]

Demolition. Construction. Painting. Planting. Volunteering. They’re all projects taken on by volunteers of Summer in the City Detroit, a group of inspired metro Detroiters helping to connect volunteers with opportunities around the city. The folks work with more than 40 organizations around the city, including [...][...]

March 17th came early again this year with the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade held this past Sunday along Michigan Avenue. Starting at Sixth St and running to Fourteenth St, the parade ran through Corktown because of the neighborhood’s historical significance as an Irish settled area of the city. (Corktown, [...][...]

Earlier this week, a few tongue-in-cheek Tweets were posted asking Mayor Dave Bing about the possibility of building a RoboCop statue in Roosevelt Park in Detroit. Bing laughingly seemed to brush off the suggestion in order to focus on more pressing day-to-day city concerns. Yet, whether out of whimsy or intrigue, [...][...]