Capitol Connection | Denby: A Detroit Neighborhood By & For the Community
Community development by and for the people. Since 2013, students at Denby High Schools in Detroit have made the Denby neighborhood better in ways no top-down approach arguably could. They identified barriers they and their neighbors faced -- like unsafe school routes and few places to relax -- then worked together on ways to best solve them.
The results? A $1.4 million investment in a park. A weeklong, 10,000-volunteer strong “blitz” to renovate homes of students and clean up blight. Business district enhancement led by high schoolers, business owners and teenaged treatment center residents.
And there’s still more to come from the Denby Neighborhood Alliance, the student-teacher-resident collaboration behind it all. At the helm of the Alliance is Sandra Turner-Handy, the MEC engagement director, whose Denby work is funded through the Kresge Foundation.
The Capitol Connection webinar series is generously sponsored by Steve and Judy Dobson.
When
April 23, 2021 at 11:30am - 12pm
Where
Zoom Webinar
Contact
Beau Brockett
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Community development by and for the people. Since 2013, students at Denby High Schools in Detroit have made the Denby neighborhood better in ways no top-down approach arguably could. They identified barriers they and their neighbors faced -- like unsafe school routes and few places to relax -- then worked together on ways to best solve them.
The results? A $1.4 million investment in a park. A weeklong, 10,000-volunteer strong “blitz” to renovate homes of students and clean up blight. Business district enhancement led by high schoolers, business owners and teenaged treatment center residents.
And there’s still more to come from the Denby Neighborhood Alliance, the student-teacher-resident collaboration behind it all. At the helm of the Alliance is Sandra Turner-Handy, the MEC engagement director, whose Denby work is funded through the Kresge Foundation.
