Affiliated Organizations and Projects
Detroit Action Commonwealth
The Detroit Action Commonwealth (D.A.C.) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan community organization of indigent and homeless individuals. The mission of the D.A.C is to organize indigent and homeless persons and families, provide opportunities and workshops to help them improve their lives, develop leadership capacities, advocate for better and more humane services, and educate and mobilize around issues of social and economic justice. There are two Detroit Action Commonwealth chapters located at the Capuchin Soup Kitchens in Detroit, Michigan.
Metro Coalition of Congregations
The Metro Coalition of Congregations is an interfaith organization of clergy and religious congregations working together for transformative systemic and societal change in our communities. The Coalition, representing Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties, is seeking partnership with civic leaders from metro Detroit communities, and is committed to building power in order to influence policy and become a strong, unified voice speaking out and taking action on issues that affect all of southeast Michigan.
Michigan Organizing Collaborative
The Mission of the Michigan Organizing Collaborative (MOC) is to create a broadly shared agenda for the renewal of Michigan, one that ties together the interests of revitalizing urban communities, with the overall economic revival of the state. The MOC seeks to bridge the gap between disadvantaged people and communities and those places and institutions of opportunity in our state by means of: (a) strengthening and expanding grassroots organizing in both urban and suburban communities in key regions of the state; and (b) tying together local organizing efforts into a state-wide bloc that has the policy and communications capacity to influence state policy-decisions.
Our Kids Come First/Nuestros Ninos Son Primero
Our Kids Come First/Nuestros Ninos Son Primero is an organization of parents that fights for safe streets and parks, full employment, affordable transportation and good schools.
The Detroit Educators Network
The Detroit Educators Network (DEN) is an organization of Detroit Public School teachers with National Board Certification dedicated to improving the quality of teaching in our schools. Good teaching is the key to a good education.
The Principals Network
The Principals Network is a new group of Detroit school principals coming together to create a powerful voice for administrators who face the common problems of a district with high poverty rates and a shrinking budget.
The United Tenant Council of Councils
The United Tenant Council of Councils (U.T.C.C.) is a nonpartisan coalition of four tenant councils in privately owned, multifamily HUD-assisted housing in Detroit, Michigan. The organization began in 2009 with the mission to protect the rights of tenants and to improve the quality of HUD assisted housing in Detroit. The U.T.C.C. strives to advocate and mobilize tenants through holding public officials and management/owner entities accountable to tenant demands.
Youth Voice
YOUTH VOICE is an organization of over 400 Detroit youth coming together to build their own power and create change . Participants in YOUTH VOICE mobilize and advocate for better schools, safer and cleaner neighborhoods, youth employment, recreational opportunities, a more responsive system of care for youth, and allowing youth to meaningful input institutions and policies that directly affect them.
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