Our Detroit Program works to provide coordinated investments (such as grants and social investments) to neighborhood stewards that implement catalytic projects across Detroit neighborhoods. Stewards connect these layered resources to amplify the strengths and enhance the unique character of the community. Today, we seek to extend and adapt these lessons in Livernois-McNichols (Live6), Southwest Detroit, New Center and the North End, and Jefferson Chalmers.

The Detroit Program believes that neighborhood steward organizations play a catalytic role in revitalization. Neighborhood stewards are uniquely placed to engage the community as well as understand the physical assets, from a blighted property that could be a greenway to an empty storefront that could house a business and begin the revival of a commercial corridor. Each geography brings a unique set of assets, and the mix of philanthropic supports – convenings, grants, social investments, technical support, etc. – to complement those assets will evolve differently as revitalization proceeds. Through the program’s Coordinated Investments and Technical Assistance focus area, we seek to support stewards in Livernois-McNichols (Live6), Southwest Detroit, New Center and the North End, and Jefferson Chalmers.