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Elizabeth Burns, president of Marygrove College, asking if we could convene Detroit foundations to consider helping Marygrove turn a corner. KresgeвЂ™s commitment to the Livernois-McNichols community framed our thinking 2ВЅ years ago when I received a call from Dr. WeвЂ™ve brought to Detroit a national philanthropic consortium called Reimagining the Civic Commons to partner with the city in creating a greenway of housing and open space linking this campus to UD Mercy. Morgan Chase on commercial corridor revitalization. WeвЂ™ve joined with philanthropic partners such as J.P. Since the Live6 Alliance launched in 2015, weвЂ™ve seen Mayor Duggan and the city of Detroit initiate the ambitious Fitzgerald Forward project to renovate and rehab vacant houses. Antoine Garibaldi, the Live6 Alliance was created to stabilize the neighborhood where it needs steadying, to enhance this geographyвЂ™s unique sense of place, and to spur new investment. Anchored by the University of Detroit Mercy and its gifted president Dr. Our belief in the neighborhoods in Northwest Detroit led to the formation three years ago of the Live6 Alliance. And you see it in KresgeвЂ™s investments over the last number of years to promote neighborhood small business development, strengthen community development organizations, underwrite arts and cultural activities, support early childhood development, and fund granular neighborhood revitalization projects. You see it in every move Mayor DugganвЂ™s administration makes, crystalized in the transformational Strategic Neighborhood Fund. Well, the time for that pivot to the neighborhoods is now. But it is simply insufficient unless and until health and stability and vibrancy radiates into every Detroit neighborhood, touching all city residents. A vibrant core is essential вЂ“ to build tax base, to put people to work, to demonstrate that we could accomplish big, transformational projects. We also knew that as monumental as these early bets were, theyВ would ultimately not be enough. All we could do was to say, вЂњIt has to work, and we will bend every effort until it does.вЂќ and that that kind of success would be a building block for the cityвЂ™s wider re-birth and renewal.Д«ut there were no guarantees that we were right. To be sure, we expressed confidence that new public, private, and philanthropic partnerships could attract new ideas, resources, and vigor to the cityвЂ™s core. When Kresge and others began a concerted effort a decade ago to invest in downtown Detroit, in the Riverfront, and in Midtown, there were many вЂ“ skeptics and naysayers alike вЂ“ who asked the same question. We will see emerge on this campus a new Teaching Residency Program committed to training teacher-leaders uniquely prepared to enter classrooms in Detroit and across the nation.ДЄnd we are marching down this road with you вЂ“ community residents вЂ“ as we locate exemplary education at the heart of your neighborhoodвЂ™s revitalization. It gives special meaning to the term Detroit Homecoming. And that, in the city where it was founded more than 200 years ago. Today, we also bear witness to a new level of engagement in Detroit by one of the worldвЂ™s premier institutions of higher education.

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As the facilitator of a partnership that has been two years in the making, The Kresge Foundation is thrilled we can finally share the full details with you.ДetroitвЂ™s future now includes a cradle-to-career campus that brings an inter-braided, coordinated approach to educating students вЂ“ from early childhood to kindergarten, through high school, and beyond. WeвЂ™ll hear from the speakers assembled here just what that looks like. I also believe that these neighborhoods will soon stand as a potent example to the nation of DetroitвЂ™s singular commitment to balanced, equitable neighborhood development. We have a lot to celebrate today, but we should not lose sight of the central role that these amazing, courageous women have played in bringing us here.ДЄnd thanks to each of you for being here this morning, as well.ДЄs the presence of so many community members here today suggests, Northwest Detroit вЂ“ and particularly Bagley, Fitzgerald and neighboring communities вЂ“ are vitally important to this city. and to making Marygrove College a pillar of this neighborhood. You have embodied the century-long commitment of the Sister to expanding the life opportunities for tens of thousands of Detroiters who have passed through these gates. Let me begin by expressing our profound gratitude to you and the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for your principled, courageous, and steadfast leadership during the trying path Marygrove College has traveled over the last two years.