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by Louis Bach, Communications On April 26, the Warren/Conner Development Coalition hosted a town hall meeting on City Council districts (“How Can the Council District System Facilitate the Change We Need in Our Neighborhoods?”). The town hall meeting’s goals were to educate local residents and stakeholders on the new City Council district system; to discuss [Read on...]     by Louis Bach, Communications Check out the food insecurity map created by Feeding America, which visualizes the USDA’s measure of households that lack access to nutritionally adequate food. (Food insecurity, in other words, means that a household sometimes goes hungry because it is forced to make trade-offs between food and other basic needs, such [Read on...] By Katharine Frohardt-Lane Would you have guessed that, by one measure, the healthiest county overall in Michigan is Leelanau? Now, thanks to the “County Health Rankings and Ratings,” a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute, you can investigate health measures for your county and state easily [Read on...] By Louis Bach, Communications Image courtesy of Rolling Stone In Rolling Stone’s story on the organization calling itself Detroit Dog Rescue, the magazine gives voice to an unattributed estimate that the city of Detroit has 50,000 stray dogs. The author, Mark Binelli, acknowledges the number “seems quite inflated,” but the figure still made it [Read on...] By Dana Politi, Staff Contributor As we settle into our new home at TechOne, Model D’s recent interview with TechTown CEO and President Leslie Smith has given us insight on the impact the New Center’s business incubator is having on Detroit’s small business world. According to the business accelerator’s website, TechTown’s office, research, and [Read on...] D3 is currently in transition to new offices. During this transition, we may not be reachable at our old address or through our old office phone numbers. The best way to contact us is via email or through Ask Kurt. It’s been an honor serving Detroit’s communities from this location, and we’ll always carry fond memories of the place. In the meantime, enjoy [Read on...] By Louis Bach, Communications The State Integrity Investigation has released corruption risk report cards for all fifty states, and Michigan is among the eight states that received an F for its vulnerability to corruption. Though Michigan received an A for its internal auditing and scores of B- for both its state budget process and procurement, [Read on...] by Kurt Metzger, Director The following originally appeared as a post on the Detroit Data Guru. The Census Bureau released its newest compilation of 2010 Census data for Michigan on March 8. This file allows us to understand the demographics of the growing racial and ethnic groups across our [Read on...] by Louis Bach, Communications D3’s data systems project manager and public safety analyst, Erica Raleigh, has been with the organization for nearly its entire existence. She was hired in early 2009 to compile the One D scorecard; since then, she has managed and contributed to projects including Detroit Kids Data, the Center for Michigan [Read on...] By Katharine Frohardt-Lane, Research Analyst In 2010-2011, the National Kidney Foundation Michigan (NKFM) received a capacity-building grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health‘s Office of Minority Health to reduce minority health disparities in the community of Inkster in western Wayne County. The first year of the grant was devoted to identifying key community stakeholders [Read on...] |
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