New Detroit, Inc.

We have updated the 2018-2023 Strategic Plan strategies in light of the events of 2020. Our 2021 Work Plan includes:
Improved understanding of interpersonal, institutional, and systemic racism and tools to address
Racially equitable policies
Inform and align the growing number of organizations working on racial equity in Metropolitan Detroit

Improved understanding of interpersonal, institutional, and systemic racism:
1. Collect, analyze, and distribute information on racial disparities and recommendations to
address them. Host Town Halls to discuss these issues with a broad community of professionals, policymakers, and every day people.
2. Develop services and partner with existing service providers to offer comprehensive race equity tools tailored to industries and fields facing need and demand (Leadership Series on R.A.C.E. and the "Just Suite".

Racially equitable policies:
Produce and distribute information on racial disparities to inform thought leaders in Michigan. Organize our diverse coalition of powerful voices to advance equitable policies. For 2021, our policy agenda includes: 1) Equitable vaccine distribution; 2) Race equity in childcare and early education (ages 0-5); 3) Race equity in funding K-12 education; 4) Race equity in the new economy

Alignment for collective impact:
Partner with the large and growing number of organizations, initiatives, and activities in the region focused on addressing racism
Convene local and national thought leaders for an annual race equity summit.

Capacities include legacy, brand, board, and staff. New Detroit is a 55 year old coalition of 53 nonprofit, corporate, and civic leaders working to achieve racial understanding and racial equity in Metropolitan Detroit. We were formed in response to civil unrest in 1967 at the request of then Michigan Governor George Romney, Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, and business executive Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. to identify what went wrong, what needed to change, and how to make that change happen. NDI provides thought leadership, policy advocacy, and direct services including facilitated conversations on race and customized trainings on racial diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ).

Our Work plan for 2022 includes programs, services, research, and policy advocacy to fight racism at the personal, institutional, and systemic levels.

Leadership Series on R.A.C.E. We have restructured our popular Multicultural Leadership Program, which has graduated 1200 professionals over the past 20 years, by continuing to address cultural competency and racial understanding while adding new elements around anti-racism and equity in practice. We expect to serve 225 people in 3 cohorts of 75 by the end of 2022 and repeat the series in 2022.

Just Place® Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice training for managers of hospitality-related businesses and staff.
Piloted program with the Downtown Detroit Partnership’s Downtown Hospitality Project

Just Care® This training program specifically addresses racial biases amongst health care practitioners and racism as a root cause of inequity. Just Care® transforms thinking and action regarding inequity in health care by moving participants from concept to action, to advance equity at all levels of their work.
This training meets the state requirement for Training on Implicit Bias under the Michigan Public Health Code, Rule 338.7004
In its first year, we have trained almost 200 participants from Henry Ford Health System, McClaren Hospital, and Authority Health. As well as a partnership with the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan and Vital Services for opioid patients in emergency room settings.

Just Lead® Anti-racism and multiculturalism don’t exist inside a vacuum - it is a spectrum. To move along this spectrum requires transformation and a robust theory of change.
Just Lead offers programs for every level of professional from the C-Suite to emerging leaders.
Just Lead® will help with strategies as well as resources to build equitable systems and processes that are open, transparent, and inclusive.

Town Halls We offer a series of provocative panels comprising local and national leaders addressing topical issues, this year primarily related to the COVID pandemic. National speakers and moderators so far this year included: Makhani Themba, Dr. Rashawn Ray, and journalist Kat Stafford and local experts included: Amber Arellano, Charity Dean, Jane Morgan, Dr. Rose Moten, Rochelle Riley, Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom, and WDIV anchor Kimberly Gill.

Research We commissioned a report from the Brookings Institution, Examining and Addressing COVID-19 Racial Disparities in Detroit, and will be releasing a Race Equity Highlights report later this year focused on COVID impacts on education.

Policy We are exploring partnerships to help diversify and strengthen policy initiatives around equity in childcare and K-12 education, equity in employment, COVID vaccinations, and voters rights.