{"id":29283,"date":"2023-06-02T21:27:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?post_type=blogpost&amp;p=29283"},"modified":"2023-06-02T21:27:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T21:27:48","slug":"project-spotlight-elevating-existing-businesses-on-e-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/project-spotlight-elevating-existing-businesses-on-e-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Spotlight: Elevating Existing Businesses on E. Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For our third challenge of the 2022-2023 program year, we partnered with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ewarren.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E. Warren Development Corp (EWDC)<\/a>, a nonprofit with a mission to support and enhance the E. Warren commercial corridor and adjacent neighborhoods through collaboration, community engagement, and equitable development. Five teams of Fellows worked alongside the EWDC staff and neighborhood stakeholders to create deliverables for this project \u2013 learn more from the perspective of each team!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Team-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"888\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Team-4.jpg 888w, https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Team-4-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Team-4-768x405.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The E. Warren community is thriving, hopeful, and looking at the world with an \u201conly growth from here\u201d mindset while staying grounded about the size and scope of challenges (or, opportunities) that lay ahead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After sitting down to hear their stories, our team realized that the throughline connecting many existing E. Warren businesses is their need for an ally who is specialized in co-creating, defining clear next steps, executive decision making, and being \u201cthere\u201d for businesses in a continuous way.\u00a0 Supporting this functional need could be the foundation that would allow EWDC to let their passion for the community stay forward and vibrant.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always a celebration to see how intuitively the puzzle pieces fit together, especially after sitting down and collecting them through the genuine (and often emotional) reflection of those we aim to serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jamie Hendrix, owner of Be HER Detroit, told us she believes that &#8220;people are so used to going to other places to shop- they should be able to have it in their community.&#8221;\u00a0 As we began to understand what we were really hearing from our stakeholders, we came up with recommendations to turn into actions. Both new and existing businesses will be critical to implementing the idea that you should not have to leave your community to live in a better one. We know that EWDC\u2019s place in the small business ecosystem is in its heart, where leadership is synonymous with community care, seeds sowed, and shared joy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blog by Fellow Team: Ian Hogg, Haley Beverlin, Talia Greenberg, Serena Brewer, Nathan Schooner<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our third challenge of the 2022-2023 program year, we partnered with\u00a0E. Warren Development Corp (EWDC), a nonprofit with a mission to support and enhance the E. Warren commercial corridor and adjacent neighborhoods through collaboration, community engagement, and equitable development. 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