Our mission is to first meet the needs of the people, and then community, to eliminate poverty, blight and powerlessness — improve the quality of life for those living and working in Islandview.
Mercy Volunteers enter into relationship with people who are economically poor and marginalized. In a spirit of mutuality, volunteers cultivate mercy and justice in the world by embracing compassionate service, social justice, spirituality, and a simple lifestyle in community.
City Year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. Diverse teams of City Year AmeriCorps members provide support to students, classrooms and the whole school. Schools that partner with City Year are up to two to three times more likely to…
Growth Works strives to be a positive force in the people that it serves throughout the region.
We transform lives through the power of diversity in the arts.
The Old Newsboys’ Goodfellow Fund of Detroit includes 300 members whose sole mission is to ensure that there is No Kiddie Without a Christmas.
To create, find, and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families.
To create extraordinary academic achievement especially among urban students, to prepare them to assume leadership roles in careers as entrepreneurs, physicians, nurses, research scientists, and in other professions.
Creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art, individually and with each other.
To empower inner-city teen girls towards becoming strong, confident, successful and moral future leaders.