July 2019

Brilliant Detroit’s family culture is recognized in their flat organizational mentality as well as their drive towards Asset-Based Community Development in general. Many parts of Brilliant’s organization interacts with each other in a way that recognizes people’s individual talents and interests before strict protocol or hierarchy. This means Brilliant’s staff looks for peoples strengths, personality, […]

  Hello All, https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/detroits-digital-divide-is-leaving-nearly-half-of-the-motor-city-offline/Content?oid=7625861 Detroit has a divide digitally that has impacted certain communities within the city of Detroit. Not having access to the internet seems like an age-old problem that would not have any modern day examples. Being disconnected from the internet has implications far more important than just social media and casual internet

Brilliant Detroit’s office culture is welcoming and supportive. It’s clear that the employees care about each other and people genuinely seem to enjoy and value the work they do. The nonprofit’s flat organizational structure conveys a welcoming message to its employees– the CEO wants everyone to feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and opinions with each

My supervisor, along with many Birghtmoor residents, was interviewed for this article,  which was then placed in this magazine. I’ve visited different urban agriculture sites in Brightmoor, many within walking distance of each other. This small community, Brightmoor Farmway, has its own flavor within Detroit. What was also mentioned in the article was the MSU

Link to Article: https://www.crainsdetroit.com/government/detroit-launch-largest-recycling-expansion-new-sustainable-action-agenda-unveiled This article entitled “Detroit to launch largest recycling expansion as new Sustainable Action Agenda unveiled” discusses the monumental efforts being made in the city of Detroit to improve and enact new sustainability efforts. These sustainability efforts are mainly geared towards recycling. This will be the city’s “largest expansion of recycling in

https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/07/watch-nonprofit-group-install-beehives-on-top-of-shinola-hotel-in-detroit.html “Bees in the D, a non-profit organization focused on the health and education concerning bees, recently installed beehives on top of Detroit’s Shinola Hotel.” Personally I thought this was interesting from the start. I was confused at first because they decided to put beehives on top of a hotel in the middle of downtown.

-https://www.crainsdetroit.com/government/detroit-undertaking-500-million-effort-replace-aging-water-sewer-systems I was interested to find this article about a recently passed plan by the City of Detroit to spend half a billion dollars upgrading the water and sewage infrastructure.  The article mentions that a mass line replacement on this scale has not occurred in several decades at least.  This article intrigued me for several

https://www.michiganradio.org/post/detroit-s-controversial-drainage-fee-and-michigan-s-struggles-fund-stormwater-infrastructure This article is about the drainage fee/tax that residents are charged. One important fact the is included is the fact that the city is already “entrenched with water affordability issues.” The more I learn about Detroit the more visceral its amounting issues are and how the only people that really feel them are the

Cultural cues I have been noticing are not significantly greater than what I have experienced, however, there are still microscopic differences that I have noticed. For example, there is one woman that doesn’t want me to take out or put away a heavy cart. She doesn’t want me to have to do much heavy lifting

I have been noticing that my organization is very widespread. There are over 1,600 members of the Garden Resource Program which supplies seeds, transplants, and support to Detroiters for just $15/year. Something that I knew, but never really saw up close was how Detroit’s leaders have found making residents pay for the crumbling infrastructure the