The Earn and Learn Program – A Graduate’s Perspective
By Tim Coates, Earn and Learn Graduate; Focus: HOPE Enterprises Shipping & Packaging When you enroll in Earn and Learn, you take four weeks of job-readiness training. One of the things they teach...
View ArticleEarn and Learn Program Connects People with Jobs and Job Training
Hachem Ossieran, Program Coordinator I’ve been working with Earn and Learn since it started in August. This new program connects people with jobs and job training. The participants take four weeks of...
View ArticleEarn and Learn Case Manager speaks with Students about Motivations
Michael Ansara, Case Manager The title “Case Manager” typically refers to someone who processes paperwork through appropriate channels. But as a Case Manager in the Earn and Learn program, the first...
View ArticleShare a Special Delivery with a Senior!
Every year, we have hundreds of low-income senior citizens in our food program who look forward to receiving a special delivery of groceries to make a wonderful holiday meal. Focus: HOPE and Groupon...
View ArticleDetroit agencies uniting for better neighborhoods and resident self-sufficiency
By William F. Jones, Jr., CEO Focus: HOPE The Neighborhood Network will weave together a wide range of services for residents in our community as we help to move them from dependency to self-reliance....
View ArticleThe Power of HOPE exhibit opens
Focus: HOPE will be the subject of a new exhibit opening in the Community Gallery of the renovated Detroit Historical Museum this Friday, November 23. Stories and images from the organization’s rich...
View ArticleNeighborhood revitalization strategy results in facade improvements to four...
Four local businesses along West Davison Avenue have completed impressive “facelifts” to the exterior of their businesses using matching funds provided by Focus: HOPE through a City of Detroit program....
View ArticleFree basic computer classes provide opportunity for free computer
Students who complete the class are eligible for a low-cost computer Focus: HOPE is offering a free basic computer training class that provides graduates with the opportunity to purchase a low-cost...
View Article45th Anniversary Messages
This year marks the 45th anniversary of Focus: HOPE. One of our goals this year is to reconnect with people whose lives have been impacted by this organization. Please let us know how you feel about...
View ArticleFocus: HOPE Hosts Graduation for Budding Entrepreneurs in ProsperUS Detroit...
Seventeen budding entrepreneurs will be honored on Thursday, June 13, 2013 at a reception and graduation ceremony at the Focus: HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies in Detroit. The group completed an...
View ArticleFocus: HOPE Block Party Presents Community Projects & Features Candidate Forum
Focus: HOPE will host the HOPE Village Initiative Block Party, an outdoor festival with food, giveaways, entertainment, and children’s activities, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 27. The block...
View ArticleFocus: HOPE Excel Photography Program Transforms Abandoned Boarded Homes
Photography and art have the power to shape how we view our world. The Excel Photography Program: Summer 2013 is such an example. Through participating in this program, students are learning how to...
View ArticleAbdul Muhammad – Excel Photography Student
Looking Around the City I HOPE that I can keep looking forward in the City of Detroit. I HOPE that I can keep looking for art, books, drawings, and telling stories in the City of Detroit. I HOPE that...
View ArticleAlex Ambrose – Excel Photography Student
Everyone Should PRIDE in Detroit is when there are no bystanders when someone is in trouble; no one should let it happen. They should call the police and not be scared to call them at all. I’m proud of...
View ArticleChara Conway – Excel Photography Student
Dear Youth, Youth where are you? I really haven’t seen you in a while, well not in me of course. I’ve seen you within my niece and nephew, those who are always running around the house and asking me to...
View ArticleTimashion Jones – 2003 CAT Graduate
After graduating high school in 1997, I started at MTI (Machinist Training Institute of Focus: HOPE; Wayne State University). I decided to go through program because it was great, helping me stay...
View ArticleChondra Franklin – Excel Photography Student
Dear Unity, When I think of you, I see people working together. You helped me bring people closer to each other. In my community, we need more of you. There are lots of gangs, shoot outs, and fights...
View ArticleFocus: HOPE’s Annual Walk – Celebrating Several Firsts!
The 39th annual Focus: HOPE Walk on Sunday, October 13th will feature a new route, a new program, a performance of the Focus: HOPE Hustle – and a new name. The event has been renamed “Eleanor’s Walk...
View ArticleCierra Murphy – Excel Photography Student
Youth. It’s in all of us. It’s the child that plays in the winter snow or the tulip that is ready to bloom for the spring. Youth is everywhere – In our so called happy lives, our children, and in our...
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