{"id":5638,"date":"2015-06-18T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:07:17","slug":"week-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2015\/06\/18\/week-3-3\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEK 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is anything I\u2019ve learned about working at Nortown CDC so far, it\u2019s that no two days are alike in the world of community development. One day you\u2019re having a meeting with your councilman from District 3 about the Norris House restoration project, the next you\u2019re working with Greening of Detroit to figure out the exact supplies you need to order for a butterfly garden, and a week later you\u2019re on your computer trying to figure out who owns all the vacant land in the neighborhood. I\u2019ve mostly enjoyed the lack of a consistent schedule so far; it keeps things interesting.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also learned that if money permitted, there would be enough work to do to keep an entire fleet on staff. However, this isn\u2019t the case- when there is little money to be found, only a couple people have to do the work of the entire fleet. It seems to me like it has to be exhausting, and I have a lot of respect for the people here at Nortown who volunteer\u00a0so much of their time and resources all the time.<\/p>\n

Detroit is an amazing city to me because everyone is so connected, and non-profits both utilize and work closely with so many other non-profits around the city. I\u2019ve heard people refer to it many times before as a small-town big city, referring to the small town-feel you get when you\u2019ve been here for a while. In my second summer here, I certainly can feel that. I often see people I know just walking down the street in Midtown or at Eastern Market or wherever, or run into the same people I\u2019ve worked with before again in the context of a new organization. It\u2019s always amazing to me to find out what strange connections people I know have to other people I know. It\u2019s one of the many reasons I love it here.<\/p>\n

On an unrelated note, I had the chance to see Pippin last night at the Fisher Theater. As the manager of a coffee shop\u00a0in the building, my cousin gets a lot of free tickets to the shows there. In the wintertime, we saw the show Once, and last year we say American Idiot (the Green Day musical, I would not recommend it). Pippin was AMAZING. It combined circus acts with magic with burly men balancing on tin cans with music that won’t get out of my head with a hilarious show. I even got to meet one of the directors before hand when he came in to the shop for coffee. Five stars.<\/p>\n

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If there is anything I\u2019ve learned about working at Nortown CDC so far, it\u2019s that no two days are alike in the world of community development. One day you\u2019re having a meeting with your councilman from District 3 about the Norris House restoration project, the next you\u2019re working with Greening of Detroit to figure out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcbrp-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16195,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/16195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}