News & Views Detroit teens are shaping the city’s story in Journalism Camp; scholarships for students available April 9, 2026 In a city whose narrative has too often been written by people who have never walked its blocks, a program at the Detroit Writing Room is putting the tools of journalism directly into the hands of the young people who know Detroit best. The Detroit Writing Room’s Journalism Camp is…
News & Views Where do we go from here? On youth, climate, cultural power and the work of rebuilding April 9, 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asked this question from Memphis in 1967. He was tired. The movement had won historic battles and was staring at something harder, not a single law to change, but an entire architecture of neglect to dismantle. He wasn’t asking out of despair. He was asking…
News & Views How Sisters in Public Health is changing who gets to lead April 8, 2026 Angela Frazier had a vision. As a master’s student in public health, she looked around at the women in her program and saw something that troubled her. Talented, committed women were navigating a demanding field largely on their own, without mentors who looked like them, without spaces to process the…
Resource Access Denied: How 40% of Americans are locked out of the private student loan market April 8, 2026 Protect Borrowers, an Education Program grantee, published a new report with The Century Foundation that looks at the private student loan market. As the Department of Education implements changes that limit how much students and families can borrow from the federal government, proponents of federal student loan caps argue that the private…
News & Views National Public Health Week: How do we contribute to public health in our community? April 8, 2026
News & Views The future of CDFIs will shape the future of affordable housing March 30, 2026 When we talk about the future of community development financial institutions (CDFIs), we are really talking about the future of who gets to participate in our economy. CDFIs are often described as niche lenders or mission-driven intermediaries. In reality, they are foundational financial connective tissue between capital and historically overlooked…