Tag: Ford Driving Community

Founded in 2020, Southfield-based nonprofit A Girl Like Me Inc. has quickly created a safe, nonjudgmental space for girls and women. By offering mentorship, resources and education, they support teenage mothers and other girls and young women, ages 11 to 25. “It’s been a great response,” says founder Tyra...

This Detroit native heads the Corktown-based incubator that supports and champions the entrepreneurial spirit.

‘By accident,’ this mom and author started a program that helps ensure students enter college empowered and debt free – and exit with real-world career prospects.

This Flint community leader heads a public charity determined to bridge the gap between philanthropists and community.

This Marygrove alumna has returned to the campus to continue the institution’s legacy of educating the community and preserving history.

As a child, both of this millennial’s parents were imprisoned. Now grown, she’s created an organization that provides children of the incarcerated with essential resources meant to break the cycle of generational incarceration.

This mother’s son was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, which led her to form a support system for African American parents and families also affected by autism.

This Tallahassee native heads a member association that nurtures southeast Michigan’s arts and cultural organizations.

With a belief that safe and affordable water is a basic human right, this activist works to prevent water shutoffs and change policy in Detroit.

This Oakland University graduate has made a career of supporting nonprofits – and, in her newest role, she’s creating an environment where the city’s organizations support each other.

This Tennessean turned Detroiter spent much of her life fighting for human rights, so when she saw Detroiters struggling with water access she stood up for them.

This native Detroiter knows the importance of youth and giving back to your community, which is why he works to help young people succeed in the city he grew up in.