Challenge Detroit 2014-2015
It’s been a wonderful year as a Challenge Detroit Fellow! Check out our ‘Year in Review’ video!
Fellow Spotlight Blog: Annie Hakim
In this week’s Fellow Spotlight, we are checking in with Annie Hakim. She fills us in on what she enjoys most about Detroit, her host company, RecoveryPark, and what she enjoys most about being a Challenge Detroit Fellow.
Tell us about living in Detroit. What neighborhood do you live in and what things make it unique and exciting?
I […]
5 Excellent Detroit Restaurants with Locally Sourced Ingredients
At the most basic level, buying local helps keep consumers money in their community’s economy. The New Economics Foundation, compared what happens when people buy produce at a supermarket vs. a local farmer’s market or community supported agriculture (CSA) program and found that twice the money stayed in the community when folks bought locally. “That […]
8 Awesome Detroit Youth Empowerment Orgs
1.) Detroit Impact Inc.
Detroit Impact is a youth center established to work with youth in our community to teach, mentor, guide, motivate and encourage.
Youth Programming:
-Computer Learning Center
-Media Arts (film and videography class for youth ages 12-17)
-Remote Control Car Circuit: building and racing model cars for youth ages 6-12)
-Creative Writing: poetry writing and slams, youth written newsletter, […]
5 International Human Rights Activists that Deserve to be Heard
1.) Gambian woman forced into exile for posting video of police brutality
Minah Manneh, a Gambian women’s rights activist, filmed disturbing footage of a policeman caning a schoolgirl and then posted it on her Facebook page. This courageous act has forced the 23-year-old to flee her own country as Gambian law expressly forbids its citizens from […]
Fresh food, jobs for Detroit’s neighborhoods: RecoveryPark’s mission
Last September, I began my Challenge Detroit Fellowship and joined the incredibly talented and passionate team at my host company, RecoveryPark.
In 2010, RecoveryPark launched not only to convert blighted land in the City of Detroit into urban agriculture and aquaculture businesses, but to spur economic development in Detroit neighborhoods (beyond Midtown and Downtown) by creating […]
6 Visuals of Inequity in the US
Income Inequality in the US Has Been Increasing Since the 1970s
“According to Emanuel Saez, an economics professor at UC-Berkeley, U.S. income inequality has been increasing steadily since the 1970s, and now has reached levels not seen since 1928”
-Pew Research Center 2013
Americans Have a Distorted Sense of the Level of US Wealth Inequality
“Associate professor of […]
“I’m Afraid You Have Humans”: The Environment in 2014
Humans’ impact on the environment has important social, political, and economic implications that aren’t always discussed in depth on the news. Here are a few environmental stories from 2014 that you may have missed.
**Click on each headline below for the full story
January
Australia permits dredge dumping near Great Barrier Reef for major coal port (Reuters)
Extreme air pollution in […]
TV in 2015: The Golden Age Continues
2014 was an incredible year for TV. Fortunately, 2015 has much in store for TV watchers! Here are my recommendations for the best shows to look out for in the upcoming year!
November 2014:
The Newsroom- Season 3 on HBO
(Seasons 1 and 2 available on HBO GO)
Season 3 Trailer
December 2014:
Marco Polo- Season 1 (full) release Dec. 12 […]
Challenge Detroit Fellows Tell RecoveryPark’s Story
By: Annie Hakim
RecoveryPark is non-profit organization dedicated to creating jobs for Detroiters with barriers to employment (low literacy levels, recovering addicts, returning citizens). By converting blighted land into urban agriculture and aquaculture ventures and growing a family of value-added food production businesses, RecoveryPark plans to create over 1,000 jobs, over the next ten years, which will help […]