Vanguard Camp Positive Influence Showcase

      Last Saturday (August 18th) was Vanguard Community Development Corporation (VCDC)’s annual showcase for the youth of Camp Positive Influence. During the show case youth showed off the skills they learned during their summer camp. The event was also a back to school “block party” for youth where there was food, fun, games, and free back to school supplies for families.

     Camp Positive Influence (P.I.) is typically a 6-8 week program focused on workforce development, entrepreneurship, academic enrichment, community service, and community development. Camp P.I. facilitates youth participants in the development of marketable skills by engaging in positive activities focused on community beautification, digital media, and community awareness.

      The program is intentionally designed to build youth leaders in the North End with principles of new job skills, creative expression and community engagement. In addition, Camp P.I. offers creative workshops such as graffiti, mural design, DJing, and other youth inspired classes. For more information contact DBaul@VanguardCDC.org

Too view more pictures from the showcase click here.

How to Stay Tuned on all Central Woodward North End Events

Stay Tuned on all Central Woodward North End events by checking out the new feature on our wordpress blog, the community Calendar! You can sync it to your very own google calendar! 

http://cwne.wordpress.com/cwne-community-calendar/

Free Infant Maternal Health Program

Volunteers needed at Gleaners!

Happy Summer Everyone!

Dear Volunteers,

Hope you’re having fun in the sun and enjoying this great weather!

It’s summer, and more than 315,000 kids who depend on school meals are at home and hungry. Charter One Foundation and other generous sponsors are matching gifts dollar for dollar so that we can provide 2 million meals to these children.

We have several projects happening at Gleaners Community Food Bank in the Detroit and the Taylor warehouses.

We are looking for volunteers to assist with all these projects.

Here is a list of volunteer opportunities and details:
Ÿ Office Volunteers: Scheduling, data entry, light clerical.
Ÿ Warehouse Volunteers: Pulling agency orders and packing for agency distribution.
Ÿ Pantry Pack Volunteers: Packing food items into boxes for families.
ŸMobile Volunteers: Packing and bagging food boxes for school distributions.
***Projects will be assigned depending on the priority of our warehouse needs.

Dates need to be filled:

July 30th 9-12noon and 1-4p.m./July 31st 9-12noon and 1-4p.m.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

We welcome individuals and groups of any size.

During the summer months we experience a lower number of volunteers and without your support it is very difficult for us to continue our mission “Nourishing communities by feeding hungry people.”

Please help us by scheduling a volunteer visit soon.

Please call me or send me an email so that we can schedule you or your group.

Sincerely,

Alma D. Perez
Gleaners Detroit & Taylor Volunteer Coordinator
(313)923-3535 ext: 239
aperez@gcfb.org

Government Funds to Pay Mortgage

Detroit Non-Profit Housing at 313-972-1111 has government funds to pay the mortgage for three months for a city of Detroit resident who is 1-3 months behind in their mortgage payment and can demonstrate they can sustain the mortgate after the three months of assistance. There is no charge for this assistance.

Important Announcements from CDAD!

CDAD Hires New Executive Director Sarida Scott Montgomery CDAD is very excited to announce that it has hired a full time Executive Director, Sarida Scott Montgomery, who will be starting in September. For the past several years, Ms. Scott has worked as the Chief Program Officer for Michigan Community Resources (MCR), a nonprofit founded to help nonprofit organizations, which has played a vital role in the community development industry with technical and legal assistance. In her capacity at MCR, Ms. Scott oversaw all of the organization’s programs, managed staff and helped fundraise. Ms. Scott has worked closely with CDAD in recent years as a former board member, where she served the organization as Secretary, during a critical time of reorganization and growth. “Professionally and personally I support the efforts to elevate the role of CDOs in current planning and revitalization work in Detroit,” Ms. Scott says, “It will be a challenging and rewarding opportunity to lead CDAD to a position of further growth and prominence.” Ms. Scott’s hiring represents the culmination of a multistage hiring process which was lead by the CDAD board, its members, and the funding community. “I am very proud of this process,” said Scott Alan Davis, CDAD’s chairman, “We engaged the CDAD community, had a great response and were pleased with the quality of candidates. We look forward to working with Sarida.” Before MCR, Ms. Scott worked at the City of Detroit as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the Law Department and also worked as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid and Defender Association of Detroit. Ms. Scott has a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan..

Pilot Grants Annouced for Strategic Alliance Demonstration Project Finally, it is with incredible excitement that the Strategic Alliance Demonstration Project selection committee has identified three strategic alliances for funding. The primary focus for these alliance is to identify more advanced means of sharing resources, responsibilities, and cost-saving measures that benefit every member of the alliance. These alliances improve the capacity of the community development industry to stabilize Detroit neighborhoods through an innovative partnership between CDAD, the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). The selection committee is proud to award the following sub-grants: Restore Northeast Detroit – NED (Nortown CDC) – $25,000 Lower Eastside Alliance (Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice) – $12,500 Bridging Communities, Inc. – $12,500

CDAD Office Move With the prospects of a growing staff, CDAD is looking to expand its offices at Orchestra Place, where it currently shares a small office within the University of Michigan Detroit Center. For the past two years, CDAD been located at the Detroit Center, on the ground floor of 3663 Woodward Avenue. The move is anticipated to take place in the next month. Our partnership with University of Michigan will continue as CDAD moves to Suite 120, located on the north side of the building. CDAD’s new director and additional staff will occupy about one thousand square feet of space in larger offices, alongside open meeting rooms. All committee meetings will be coordinated out of suite 120, while larger meetings, such as the bi-monthly membership meetings, will continue to be held in the Ann Arbor room of UofM Center. While the address will remain, please look out for any changes regarding other contact information. We look forward to serving you!

Foreclosure Grants Available

Foreclosure Grants Available

The City of Detroit was awarded a CDBG-R grant for $9.9 million. From that grant, $1.2 million was earmarked to provide housing assistance to eligible City of Detroit residents who are at risk of losing their home through means of  foreclosure.

Southwest Housing Solutions was awarded $272,519 of that $1.2 million to distribute to struggling homeowners.  We have listed below some of the eligibility requirements for the program:

• Property must be in the City of Detroit
• Must be the legal owner of property
• Property must be your primary residence AND you must live in the home
• Mortgage delinquency status cannot exceed three (3) months of arrearages
• Property taxes must be current – (Note: there are some exceptions; call for more
details)
• Homeowner must be able to show stable income

If you, or know ANYONE who you think might qualify for this program, please have them call the Housing Opportunity Center immediately and request an Intake Package at 313.841.9641 or stop by the office and pick one up. We  have an EXTREMELY small window of opportunity to help eligible City of Detroit Residents, so it is imperative that we act quickly. Any funds that have not been used by the August 31, 2012 deadline, will be returned to the City of  Detroit and then, eventually, back to the Federal Government. Thank you for your assistance in spreading the word and please do not hesitate to call our office with any questions.

Midtown Alliance Meeting July 11, 2012

Midtown Alliance Meeting

 

July 11, 2012

 

7:00 p.m. at Mario’s Restaurant

(Second between Willis and Canfield)  

 

(Don’t forget – no meeting in August ! ! !)

 

Help make our neighborhood safe and clean 

 

    Central District Police Department

 

We have a new Commander = Cmdr. White.

Telephone Crime Reporting (T.C.R.) at 313-267-4600

 Address: 7310 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202

(corner of E. Grand Blvd/Woodward)

   Precinct Desk: 313-596-1300

(In an emergency – call 911 or from a cell phone, call 313-224-1212)

Fax: 313-596-5166 or 313-596-1365 or 313-596-1362

CentralDistrict@detroitmi.gov

·        Commander White = 313-596-1310

·        Insp. Charles Fitzgerald (Patrols) = 313-596-1305 fitzgeraldc159@detroitmi.gov

·        Community Relations:

·        Sgt. Myron Travis = 313-596-5114 travism209@detroitmi.gov

§       Off. Dale Dorsey = 313-596-5110 dorseyd832@detroitmi.gov

§       Environmental Off. Chris Gibson = 313-596-1364 gibsonc317@detroitmi.gov

·         Wayne County Prosecutors Office – Community Prosecution Unit - Central District Representative Bradley L. Cobb = 313-224-8811 bcobb@co.wayne.mi.us

·        Gang Squad = 313-237-2555

·        To report drug activity = 313-224-DOPE

·       To report illegal gun activity = 1-800-AFT-GUNS

Crime Stoppers: 1-800-SPEAK UP (1-800-773-2587) www.1800speakup.org

Wayne State University Public Safety 313-577-2222

Central Community Access Center (formerly Neighborhood City Hall)

313-224-2989; Fax: 313-224-4334

2 Woodward (Coleman A. Young Municipal Center), Room 106

Chauncey N. Samuel, Manager, csamuel@detroitmi.gov

Central District Police/Community Relations Council Meeting

When:                    Third Tuesday of each month (no meetings in July or August)

Time:                     6:30 p.m.

Location:               Central District Headquarters

President:              Ernest Little = 313-378-3725

Web site through Neighborhood Link = www.neighborhoodlink.com/org/cdpcrc

email address = cdpcrc@hotmail.com

Midtown Alliance Meetings

When:                 Second Wednesday of each month (no meeting in August or December)

Time:                     7:00 p.m.

Location:               Mario’s Restaurant (Second and Willis)

Information:           Leslie Malcolmson = 313-831-7931

Boundaries:           East – Chrysler Freeway I-75

South – Fisher Freeway I-75

West – Lodge Freeway M-10

North – Edsel Ford Freeway I-94

FREE FOOD – All Children under age of 18

Food, Friends, & Fun

Free summer meals are available for all children under the age of 18.

 No registration or ID is required to access free summer meals.

 COMIDA DE VERANO GRATIS para niños y adolescents

To find your summer site simply call 2-1-1 or text FoodMI to 877-877

www.NoKidHungry.org/Michigan

Free Summer Meals

For many kids, summertime means two things: fun and friends. But when school’s out, that also means that families can’t count on their kids eating meals at school, and already tight family food budgets have to be stretched even further. Parents also know that growing kids have big appetites.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers free summer meals to kids across Michigan similar to School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, except meals are free to all kids that come to a registered summer meals site.

Summer Meals Programs Details:

• Meals are FREE to children and teens ages 18 and younger who come to a summer meals site.
• Free summer meals will help families save money and stretch their already tight food budgets.
• Food served at summer meal sites follows USDA nutrition guidelines and are paid for by the USDA.
• Summer meal sites are safe places for kids and teens to go, such as schools, churches, and community centers.
• May sites offer educational and recreational activities that kids of all ages can participate in so they can eat, hang out with friends and take part in activities offered.
• Parents don’t need to apply to the program to get a free summer meal for their kids. They can simply bring their child to a summer meals site in their community, and their kids can enjoy it without the hassle of having to fill out an application.

 

Find a Summer Meals Site Near You:

Call 2-1-1 or Text FoodMI to 877-877 to find a summer meals site near you!

Grants, Rebates and Financing Available for your Business or Nonprofit