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Feature Story Sonia Acosta. Photo by Nick Hagen.

How Pontiac's Centro Multicultural La Familia stays connected to vulnerable clients during pandemic

After about a month of working from home, some of the clients started losing their jobs or receiving reduced work hours. We started receiving calls from clients needing help with paying for their rent, utilities, needing diapers for their children, personal hygiene items, and food.

Feature Story Carina Jackson at Mariners Inn. Photo by Nick Hagen.

How Mariners Inn is navigating the pandemic to keep its vulnerable men safe

We were there through the construction of Little Caesars Arena and we plan to be here forever. We're not going anywhere.

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Manistique Community Treehouse serves the Jefferson Chalmers community during the pandemic

We knew when the pandemic began that people were going to need food, need masks, so the very first week of the pandemic we started a project called the resource table at the community treehouse where people could give and take food and personal protective equipment.

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Connecting with the community during COVID-19 means finding new ways to serve our neighbors

"We're trying to figure out how we can offer the same quality of connection and programming so that we’re able to continue to build relationships but not put anyone in danger or at risk."

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Running an arts nonprofit during COVID-19 is not impossible. It just requires some creativity.

COVID-19 has required a big shift in our thinking in terms of virtual programming when what we've done for so long is rely on that in-person experience. I think we've done a really good job with that, though it hasn't been without its trial and error.

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Pontiac's Micah 6 asks 'How can we help?'

Micah 6 is just the right size to answer needs in our community. We're not so big that we can’t adjust our focus because we’re writing change proposals to our large grantors, but we’re not so small that we can’t think beyond a few families that we serve.

Innovator Doria Robinson

Doria RobinsonUrban Tilth

As Executive Director of Urban Tilth, Doria Robinson is helping her community of Richmond, California to build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.

Innovator Terence Patterson

Terence PattersonDowntown Memphis Commission

Terence Patterson is President and CEO of the Downtown Memphis Commission, and is using his diverse background in corporate finance, corporate law, and education policy to lead the effort of making Downtown Memphis a better place to work, live, learn, invest, and visit. 

Innovator Brandan "Bmike" Odums

Brandan "Bmike" OdumsStudio BE

Brandan "Bmike" Odums is a filmmaker and artist whose current solo exhibition space, Studio BE, educates New Orleans youth on powerful figures and important moments in Black history and the civil rights movement. 

Innovator Judy Reese Morse

Judy Reese MorseCity of New Orleans

In the wake of two catastrophic environmental disasters, the City of New Orleans has an eye on racial equity and Deputy Mayor Judy Reese Morse is leading the charge. 

Innovator Tayyib Smith

Tayyib SmithInstitute of Hip-Hop Entrepreneurship

Tayyib Smith is the co-founder of Philadelphia-based Little Giant CreativePipeline Philly, the Institute of Hip-Hop Entrepreneurship, and the soon-to-launch Creative Cities Lab. All of his projects are rooted in a passion for social justice and economic equitability. 

Innovator Pamela Lewis

Pamela LewisNew Economy Initiative

Pamela Lewis is the Director of the Detroit-based New Economy Initiative, the largest philanthropically led economic development initiative in the United States. 

Innovator Maitreyi Roy

Maitreyi RoyBartram's Garden

Maitreyi Roy is the Executive Director of Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia, the first botanic garden in the country. A landscape architect by training, she has spent almost 25 years looking at community greening issues through the lens of urban development.

Innovator Gene Powell

Gene PowellStartUp Toledo

Gene Powell is the co-founder of StartUp Toledo, which brings the area's innovators and creators together for networking and idea-sharing once a month, as well as Seed Coworking, Toledo's first co-working space.

Innovator Alfa Demmellash

Alfa DemmellashRising Tide Capital

Alfa Demmellash is the CEO and co-founder of Rising Tide Capital, a nonprofit organization that builds communities of self-sustaining entrepreneurs by focusing on knowledge and social capital. 

Innovator Jorge Blandón

Jorge BlandónFamily Independence Initiative

Jorge Blandón is Vice President of the Oakland-based Family Independence Initiative, a national nonprofit that leverages technology and data for low-income families to lead their own change. 

Innovator Angela Glover Blackwell

Angela Glover BlackwellPolicyLink

Angela Glover Blackwell is the President and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute that advances economic and social equity through policy work and by connecting people already doing such work on the ground.

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