towards creating a new infrastructure for our city
from the ground up formed the Detroit City of Hope campaign. Examples
of innovative
grassroots activities range from urban agriculture to small business models, reinventing work
and education to focus on community building and restorative justice
initiatives, such as creating peace zones. Detroit City
of Hope meetings happen every other Wednesday at the Boggs Center
and provide an opportunity for face to face sharing of participant's individual
social change work as well as a forum for an ongoing community
discussion.
Detroit City of Hope now launches
an online space, that we hope will continue to document the community-building process in Detroit,
making current initiatives more visible and facilitating further
connection and cross-fertilization on the ground. In these times,
we are feeing a tremendous groundswell of grassroots energy,
it becomes our challenge as community builders to channel that energy into
projects that capture people's imagination, produce tangible results
and leave us in awe of our
collective potential.
