I cover nonprofits, arts and culture, staffing and services for Crain's Detroit Business. I've also covered higher education and health care for Crain's Detroit Business in the past and prior to that, I covered automotive suppliers for five years for another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News.
05/17/12 Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit is facing opposition to its first choice of location for an upscale thrift store from yet another local community.
The West Bloomfield Township Zoning Board of Appeals Tuesday night denied Goodwill's request to put a store on Northwestern Highway at Orchard Lake Road in space that Witbeck Home Appliance Mart is vacating.
The decision came after the board tabled a vote on the project at its April 17 meeting to give its members more time to gather information on ...more »
05/02/12 A small but influential local nonprofit is attracting financial support and attention from several high-profile funders.
The Women's Caring Program recently attracted a $300,000 grant over three years from the DTE Energy Foundation and a $50,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Local philanthropist Marjorie Fisher, widow of Max Fisher, her son Phillip Fisher and daughter Julie Fisher Cummings also made a $50,000 challenge grant to WCP to help fund operations and spur additional ...more »
04/25/12 A new international film festival in the works for Ann Arbor won't detract from the 50-year Ann Arbor Film Festival.
In fact, it should help create a stronger film culture in the region, said Donald Harrison, executive director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, in an email sent from England where he today he was presenting the Ann Arbor Film Festival traveling tour at a university just outside of Liverpool.
(Harrison said he anticipates more than 50 stops for the tour internationally over the next 10 months. ...more »
04/03/12 While many animal rescue organizations focus on adopting out the strays and unwanted pets they take in, All About Animals Rescue is taking a different tact.
The Warren-based animal clinic and rescue, plans in mid-April to launch what it says is the region's first mobile spay/neuter clinic in Detroit.
The organization plans to offer no-cost spays the first week, beginning April 16, starting in Southwest Detroit and working with several large churches in the city that can help spread the word about the ...more »
03/29/12 Data Driven Detroit has left the building—the former Barden Cos. building, that is.
The data center's director, Kurt Metzger, and his team are moving their operations to TechTown, Wayne State University's business incubator.
Meanwhile, City Connect, which serves as fiduciary for D3, has moved to the Legal Aid and Defender Association's building on Abbott Street, across from MGM Grand Detroit ...more »
03/20/12 Representatives from 20 Michigan foundations are headed to Washington Wednesday-Thursday to join more than 200 of their peers from 42 other states.
The group will meet with legislators and federal agencies to highlight the collaboration between foundations and local and state governments as a model for economic development in communities still recovering from recession and unemployment.
They'll also stress the importance of supporting federal policies that encourage charitable giving, including preserving ...more »
03/13/12 The Dearborn Planning Commission tabled its vote on granting a special use request to Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit for an upscale thrift store on Michigan Avenue for a third time Monday night.
Only five of the nine planning commissioners showed up to last night's meeting, marking the third time in as many months that all nine appointed members of the commission have failed to show up to a scheduled meeting.
This time around, Goodwill requested the commission table the vote on the special use ...more »
03/12/12 Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit will go before Dearborn's planning commission for a third time tonight to seek its blessing for putting an upscale thrift store on Michigan Avenue.
The organization, which won Crain's Best Managed Nonprofit award in 2011 for its strategic reentry into thrift stores, is lumped in with adult entertainment in terms of its business classification in Dearborn and must obtain special use zoning for the property.
It was required to go through a process that most ...more »
02/21/12 Retired radio broadcaster Dick Purtan will return to the airwaves for the Salvation Army of Metro Detroit's annual Bed and Bread Club Radiothon, an event he helped to found 25 years ago.
The 16-hour event takes place Friday on WJR AM 760 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Purtan was instrumental in establishing the radiothon and hosting it under its orginal name, the Dick Purtan Radiothon, every year up until last year at WOMC FM 104.3.
The Salvation Army moved the radiothon to ...more »
02/09/12 Data Driven Detroit and its numbers guru/director Kurt Metzger are looking for a new home and a new parent organization.
D3, which has operated as a program of City Connect Detroit since 2008 and focused largely on Detroit and the metro area, hopes to expand its data and mapping work statewide.
The data center is exploring an affiliation with the Michigan Nonprofit Association which would give it statewide reach, while providing MNA with research capacity it doesn't currently have. ...more »
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