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Overview

Mission: Detroit Physical Revitalization

Mission: Economic Development

Mission: The Arts

Mission: Safe Community

Mission: Detroit Medical Center

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteers in Prevention,
Probation & Prisons, Inc.

Because crime is a serious threat to the vitality and quality of life of the community, the Foundation supports projects to improve public safety.Over the years, the Foundation’s interests have included mentoring initiatives, prisoner re-entry program improvements, and interactive partnerships between citizens, independent service agencies, and criminal justice agencies.

With the addition of the 15x15 Strategy to the Foundation’s agenda in 2008, the Foundation’s Safe Community mission has become more focused upon efforts to improve safety and the perception of safety in Greater Downtown Detroit.

2006-2007 Grant Highlights:

$125,000 to Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to assist in the creation of the Detroit Safe Communities Collaborative to target prisoner re-entry efforts, working with the correction system to curb the amount of crimes committed by the estimated 5,000 to 6,000 formerly incarcerated citizens annually released in the Detroit region from prison.

$100,000 to Volunteers in Prevention, Probation & Prisons, Inc. to reduce at-risk youth involvement with the criminal justice system by increasing their capacity to recruit and train mentors.

$45,000 to Wayne State University for population trends research and service gap analysis related to prisoner reentry.

$125,000 of a $200,000 commitment to Wayne Mediation Center to reduce criminal behavior in at-risk young people by supporting a cooperative pilot program with schools and the juvenile courts to mediate problems that lead to children being truant from school.

 

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