Who We Are   Home Who We Are https://detroitcityofhope.tripod.com/id28.html http://build.tripod.lycos.com/trellix/sitebuilder/f_edit_page.html Calendar Join Us Network of Hope News Blogs Store Contact Us In The End, It's All About Love; Hope Is The Light Detroit: City of Hope Credo – or – The Soul Of Detroit: City of Hope Detroit: City of Hope is about the expectation of good in spite of extreme contradictions to hopefulness.  Detroit has often, and for many reasons, appeared to be on the brink of death.  Yet this city, and these people, have not died as many a commentator has predicted.    We are on the brink of life. Detroit lives on because Detroit has faith; because Detroit, and those who love Detroit, still have hope.  Such faith in the potentiality of Detroit springs from people with vision – particularly, and some would note peculiarly, like those who are part of Detroit: City of Hope.   Detroit: City of Hope is an evolving communal vision that calls Detroit into a place where humanity lives with purpose and dignity.  As a collaborative organism, Detroit: City of Hope makes opportunity to see, to participate, to invigorate, to create the ground of peace where people find ways to share their highest selves. We see Detroit with our hearts as well as with our eyes.  It is through the shared intimacy of seeing hope and learning to walk together - beyond the constraints of deprivation, alienation, in-difference and distrust toward the place where hope lives and will not die, because we will not, can not, surrender - that we discover our connections as human beings.  Through our collective experience we evolve our testimony of Detroit that becomes a record for others to bear witness to how diverse people can see past madness into hope and healing. We initiated the Detroit: City of Hope Campaign in 2007 when we commemorated the 40th anniversary of MLK’S speech: Break the Silence and the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion.  Our goal is to create and support the emerging web of Activists, Artists, Architects, Community Gardeners, Poets, Organizers, Entrepreneurs, Block Clubs, Peace Makers, Workers and Thinkers - and all those seeking and creating solutions to the ills that have kept our communities in “cycles of broken down everything!”  It has been said that our collective vision is the true stuff of madness – but such a wonderful audacity gives birth to systems of justice that can change the world.       Our Mission   Detroit: City of Hope is an evolving communal vision that calls Detroit into a place where humanity lives with purpose and dignity.  As a collaborative organism, Detroit: City of Hope makes opportunity to see, to participate, to invigorate, to create the ground of peace where people find ways to share their highest selves. We see Detroit with our hearts as well as with our eyes.  It is through the shared intimacy     of seeing hope and learning to walk together - beyond the constraints of deprivation, alienation, in-difference and distrust toward the place where hope lives and will not die, because we will not, can not, surrender - that we discover our connections as human beings.  Through our collective experience we evolve our testimony of Detroit that becomes a record for others to bear witness to how diverse people can see past madness into hope and healing.   We initiated the Detroit: City of Hope Campaign in 2007 when we commemorated the 40th anniversary of MLK’S speech: Break the Silence and the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion.  Our goal is to create and support the emerging web of Activists, Artists, Architects, Community Gardeners, Poets, Organizers, Entrepreneurs, Block Clubs, Peace Makers, Workers and Thinkers - and all those seeking and creating solutions to the ills that have kept our communities in “cycles of broken down everything!”  It has been said that our collective vision is the true stuff of madness – but such a wonderful audacity gives birth to systems of justice that can change the world.