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Detroit Vegan Soul is a family of restaurants offering flavorful, 100% plant-based soul food to vegans and non-vegans alike in a welcoming environment. Our warm, engaging staff create dishes from scratch using mostly organic ingredients, locally sourced when available.

The Detroit Promise is a last-dollar scholarship that ensures all eligible Detroit residents have a tuition-free path to an associate degree, bachelor’s degree or technical certificate at participating academic institutions.

The Detroit Partnership on Economic Mobility between Poverty Solutions and the city of Detroit is a joint effort to identify and implement concrete, evidence-based strategies that significantly improve economic opportunity and reduce poverty in Detroit. Partnership projects are already underway pairing dozens of U-M experts with the leadership of city departments including Health, Workforce, Housing and Revitalization, Jobs and Economy, and Police. Our goal is to add capacity to existing City efforts, and to ask and answer questions that amplify and inform those efforts.

The Detroit Chapter NABJ is an organization of journalists, students and media-related professionals that provides programming to and advocates for black journalists.

FLAC focuses on assisting victims of domestic abuse, elder abuse, or those who experience great barriers to justice. This organization is the only student run legal aid clinic in the nation staffed entirely by Wayne State University Law School students who provide legal services under the supervision of licensed attorneys, pursuant to Michigan Court Rule 8.120.

Detroit Food Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that works to inspire young Detroiters (ages 10-24) through culinary arts and food entrepreneurship. From cooking delicious healthy meals for friends and family to facilitating complex conversations with community to developing artisan food projects from scratch to market, students learn by transforming their ideas into reality. Through this process, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful to affect change in our communities and beyond.

Detroit Development Fund is a non-profit (501(c)(3)) organization and a certified community development financial institution, incorporated in the state of Michigan. It now operates throughout the City of Detroit. Detroit Development Fund provides loans and technical assistance to small business owners, developers, building owners, contractors, and subcontractors who cannot get all of the capital they need from traditional financing sources. The organization’s stated mission is “ TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN UNDESERVED DETROIT NEIGHBORHOODS AND FOR DETROIT RESIDENTS.”

Detroit Community Health Connection is an FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center). Federally Qualified Health Centers are community-based health care providers that receive funds from the HRSA (Health Resource Services Administration) Health Center Program to provide primary care services in underserved areas. They must meet a stringent set of requirements, including providing care on a sliding fee scale based on ability to pay and operating under a governing board that includes patients.Federally Qualified Health Centers may be Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, and Health Centers for Residents of Public Housing. Detroit Community Health Connection is covered by the FTCA. The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), established in 1946, is the legal mechanism for compensating people who have suffered personal injury due to the negligent or wrongful action of employees of the U.S. government.

The Coalition was formed to address ongoing police brutality, repression, and criminalization of a generation. The Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality works to organize, mobilize, and to provide information about acts of police violence against citizens. The Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality is anti-police brutality, not just anti-police. We work to promote PEACE in our neighborhoods that is led by the community, and to bring the neighbor back into the Hood.

DBCFSN works to build self-reliance, food security and justice in Detroit’s Black community by influencing public policy, engaging in urban agriculture, promoting healthy eating, encouraging cooperative buying and directing youth towards careers in food-related fields. DBCFSN’s vision is to advance movement towards food sovereignty while advocating for justice in the food system that ensures access to healthy foods with dignity and respect for all of Detroit’s residents