Our Partners

Our work would not be possible without our community partners, whom we work alongside to develop community engagement processes and design projects. We deeply value our ongoing relationships and the trust partners bring to the process.

  • 360 Detroit, Inc.

  • AKOMA (formerly Detroit Fiber Works)

  • Alternative Foundation

  • Bailey Park Neighborhood Development Corporation

  • Bleeding Heart Design

  • Brightmoor Up

  • Brilliant Detroit

  • Camp Restore Detroit

  • Canfield Consortium

  • Community Development Advocates of Detroit

  • Century Forward

  • City of Detroit

  • College Core Block Club

  • Denby Neighborhood Alliance

  • Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

  • Detroit Horse Power

  • Dresner Foundation

  • Eastside Community Network

  • Eastern Market

  • EcoWorks

  • Edwin Denby High School

  • Franklin Wright Settlements

  • Garage Cultural

  • Greening of Detroit

  • Grace Counseling Center

  • Grace in Action

  • Grandmont Rosedale Community Development Corporation

  • Great Communities Now

  • Grove Hall Neighborhood Development Corporation

  • Heritage Works

  • IFF

  • Inside Southwest Detroit

  • Kadima Mental Health Services

  • Know Allegiance Nation

  • LGBT Detroit

  • Lindale Gardens

  • Live6 Alliance

  • Marygrove Community Association

  • Marygrove Conservancy

  • McDougall-Hunt Community Association

  • National League of Cities and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

  • National Wildlife Federation

  • Nardin Park Improvement Rock

  • Nardin Park Non-Profit Housing and Community Development Corporation

  • Neighborhood Office & Incubator Space

  • New Martin Park District Association

  • North Corktown Neighborhood Association

  • North End Woodward Community Land Trust

  • North Rosedale Park Civic Association

  • O’Hair Park Community Association

  • Osborn Neighborhood Alliance

  • Pilgrim Village

  • ProsperUS Detroit

  • San Juan Block Club

  • Southwest Detroit Business Association

  • Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center

  • TechTown Detroit

  • The Trust for Public Land

  • The Yunion

  • University of California Davis

  • University of Detroit Mercy University Ministry

  • University of Hawai’i Community Design Center

  • Urban Neighborhood Initiatives

  • Vanguard Community Development Corporation

  • Woodbridge Neighborhood Development

Working Partners 

The work of our community partners is also made possible through the commitment and collaboration of our working partners who add their technical area of expertise to projects.

  • 4545 Architecture

  • Agency Landscape + Planning

  • Arise Detroit

  • Asakura Robinson

  • Better Block

  • Choice Detroit, LLC

  • Choice Network

  • cinnaire

  • City Form Detroit

  • Community Development Advocates of Detroit

  • Data Driven Detroit

  • Detroit Champions for Hope

  • Detroit Edison Public School Academy

  • Detroit Future City

  • Design Futures Initiative

  • Doers Consulting Alliance

  • EcoWorks

  • Elevate Energy

  • et al. collaborative

  • Great Lakes Environmental Law Center

  • Hamilton Anderson Associates

  • Hope Starts Here

  • Impact Detroit Network

  • InSite Design Studio

  • INTOTO studio

  • Keep Growing Detroit

  • Ronald Omilian, AIA

  • livingLAB

  • Jacob Longton, PE, LEED, AP

  • Lord Cultural Resources

  • Michigan Energy Options

  • Michigan Community Resources

  • Michigan State Extension

  • Osborn Engineering

  • Proxy

  • Quinn Evans

  • Real Estate Strategies, Inc. & RES Advisors

  • rootoftwo

  • Smith Group

  • Spackman Mossop Michaels

  • The Work Department

  • Urban Strategies

  • Wayne State University

  • Wallace Roberts & Todd

  • Zachary & Associates

Funding Partners

We are thankful for a funding community that supports our work and that of our community partners. We consider our funding partners as thought partners and allies in this work. 

Individuals

Anonymous
Denise and Ronald Grzesiak
Stephanie Harbin
Warren Loranger, Class of ‘51
Catie and Dennis O'Leary
Jess Zimbabwe