What is Building the Engine Contributing to Detroit?
- Over 200 stakeholder organizations engaged
- Better understanding of community development
- Broad-based consensus on foundational values for community development in Detroit
- Evidence-based finding: “Social Cohesion” is the building block for strong neighborhoods
- An array of nascent City-CDO partnerships
- Data, research, learnings on community development systems in Detroit + 5 cities
- A structure to coordinate and monitor the whole system
- A community development capacity building delivery system for Detroit
- An established process where diverse stakeholders know they can come to a table for candid, authentic and courageous conversations about Detroit’s neighborhoods
- A commitment to equity in Detroit neighborhoods
- Five project concepts for testing in 2019–2020….
- “Neighborhood Vitality” Index
- Coordinated Community Development Capacity Building Delivery System
- Neighborhood Voice and Advocacy Framework
- City-CDO Single Family Rehab Partnership Concept
- Community Development Leadership Pipeline