Ford Community Corps Partnerships Grantees 2011-2012

We are proud to announce ten partnerships receiving the Ford Community Corps Partnerships Grant in the academic year of 2011-2012. Click here for a presentation on these projects.

• Gloria Albrecht and Debra Threloff (Architecture): Master of Community Development students to develop neighborhoods locate between McNichols/Puritan and Livernois/Greenlown.

• Dionne Bennett and Derrick Gorden & Valmir Merkaj (CLAE): Liberal Arts students to design and implement workshops for African American children through Youthville Detroit.

• Claudia Bernasconi and Mariarosaria DiPalo (Architecture): Architecture students to empower middle school students from the Detroit Community Schools in Brightmoor to generate ideas about their neighborhood and the city of Detroit, as well as to enhance their ability to express and communicate those ideas. 

• Amy Derezyck and David Dumais (CHP): Health Profession students to provide a preventative health awareness program in multiple Detroit Public Schools, including preventing the spread of communicable disease via hand washing.

• Dave Koelsch and Jade Nabbouh (Law): Law students to provide assessment and consulting to low-income immigrants from a vast array of countries in the Great Detroit Area.

• Jim Montate & Mary Bee and Rami Nazar (CES): Biology students to tutor and guide students at Loyola High School and students at Mercy Education Project.

• Joseph Pia and Anai Orozco (CBA): Accounting students to help tax preparation for low-income taxpayers through IRS sponsored VITA Program.

• Maia Platt and Bhavi Shah (CHP): Health Profession students to work with Medicare and Medicaid patients of the McAuley Heath Center on establishing their awareness of benefits.

• Mark Schumack & Alexa Rihana and Earnest Cleary (CES): Engineering students to perform energy audits for the residences of low-income people in northwest Detroit.

• Joon Sung and Danielle Strace (Law): Law students to assist homeowners who face foreclosure eviction.