Board of Trustees
New Detroit is a unique blend of leaders from the greater Detroit area. Use the link below to see a list of officers and members of our coalition.
2009 Report to the Community
New Detroit’s 2009 Report to the Community provides background information about how the leadership coalition works and highlights of its recent activities. Please allow time for the file to load.
The Coalition Newsletters
Click on a link below to view or save a copy of any of the New Detroit "Coalition" newsletters.
Historical Facts
New Detroit’s advocacy and support was responsible for the creation of many important nonprofit and civic organizations including:
- Black Family Development
- The Economic Growth Council (now the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation)
- Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development (LA SED)
- Wayne County Community College
ND 40 Year History Book
New Detroit’s 40-year commemorative history book is now available. It includes historic photos, documents and first-hand accounts of New Detroit’s role in urban revitalization and race relations. Individual copies are $17.50 which includes shipping and handling. Click below to purchase your copy.
Here's what former New Detroit staffer Bill Schindler, communications director, 1967-68 has to say about the book. "It is a special document and you and the staff should be commended on it…As author of New Detroit’s first mission statement I was pleased to see it used in its entirety on the inside cover. The charge is as real today as it was forty years ago, isn’t it"
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N ew Detroit is a coalition of leaders from civil rights & advocacy organizations, human services, health & community organizations, business, labor, foundations, education, media, and the clergy. It is a private, non-profit, tax-exempt organization. New Detroit was formed in response to civil unrest in 1967 that uncovered a host of entrenched social and community ills. At the request of then Michigan Governor George Romney and Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, business executive Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. convened a unique coalition—the nation's first—to identify and address these problems in a bold and comprehensive way.
Since then, New Detroit, Inc. has been a unique and valuable arena where leaders of Detroit's business, civic, grassroots, and religious communities have come together to plan cooperative strategies and to demonstrate their commitment to the city and its environs. The coalition has worked to impact the actions of individuals and institutions by serving in a number of roles; advocate, catalyst, convener, facilitator, liaison and resource.
New Detroit's Vision"Every Community Has A Conscience" It is an unspoken sense of right and wrong that people share: a fair agreement about how people ought to be treated. A community’s conscience knows that people are fragile, especially children. Our community’s conscience knows that children ought to have schools where they can achieve their best and learn how to succeed in life: where hard work in school translates into a productive future after graduation. Our community’s conscience knows that every one should be able to earn a decent living. Getting hired should have nothing to do with race or color. Earnings should have nothing to do with race or color. But somehow or another, our community has become disconnected from its conscience. Otherwise, we could not tolerate such a gap between the way things ought to be and the way they really are. The FocusThe Coalition focuses on areas that represent the greatest potential threat to the community's ability to achieve and maintain positive race relations. Five areas demand our attention: |
New Detroit has served as a catalyst for change, influencing the actions of individuals and institutions. Through advocacy and leadership by example, New Detroit has demonstrated new ways for solving specific community problems, as well as provided resources to community-based groups.