Our Mission

To work as the coalition of Detroit area leadership addressing the issue of race relations by positively impacting issues
and policies that ensure
economic and social equity.

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Business Survey

New Detroit is a private, non-profit, tax exempt coalition of leaders from business, labor, foundations, civil rights and advocacy organizations, human services, health & community organizations, education, and the media. Its mission is to positively impact issues and policies that ensure economic and social equality. New Detroit is surveying business leaders, like you, in the various minority business communities as part of a broader effort to assist the growth and sustainability of all minority owned businesses. The responses to the survey will be used to create a report and will serve as the basis for calling resource providers together to address and meet the needs identified by you and other business leaders in the survey.

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Maximizing Small Business Banking Relationships Seminar

 

Maximizing Small Business Banking Relationships Seminar

Are you a minority business owner who would like more effective communication with your lending institution?

If so, please join us on March 14th and March 24 from 8:30am till noon for Maximizing Small Business Banking Relationships, a two day seminar designed to expand your knowledge of the commercial lending process. Maximizing Small Business Banking Relationships is a targeted, practical seminar for minority small businesses that have revenues of $3 million dollars or less annually and have been in operation for five years or less. It is designed for business owners who have a desire to better understand their business’s financial condition through analysis of their financial statements and tax returns, utilize their financial statements as effective planning tools and have more effective conversations with financial institutions. The seminars will be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch, located at 1600 E. Warren, Detroit.

After attending you will have an increased ability to prepare business plans that address the major lending concerns of financial institutions, increased ability to articulate your needs to financial institutions and more effectively utilize your time when seeking a loan due to a better understanding of the process.



Fund Development through a Financial Lens

Does your organization have all the money it needs? Are you and the members of your organization taking an organized approach to your fund development efforts? Do you understand the financial mechanisms and other activities required to support those efforts? Are you asking the right people for money, and asking them effectively? These and other questions will be answered in the next Community Capacity Building presented workshops entitled "Fund Development through a Financial Lens."

New Detroit, Inc. and the Detroit Executive Service Corps have teamed up to offer a series of five seminars to assist small and medium sized nonprofit organizations effectively manage their fund development process. The seminars are designed to provide not only an introduction to fund development, but also the underlying competencies necessary to properly manage the process.

Contact Monica Martin at mmartin@newdetroit.org or call her at 313-664-2010 with any questions regarding registration. For other questions contact Sonia Plata at 313-664-2099 or email her at soniaplata@newdetroit.org.