Meet Candice Fortman, Emcee of GRDC’s Community Connections Breakfast, Marketing Engagement Director for WDET, and Grandmont Resident

Candice Fortman is one of the busiest people in Detroit, but just about everything that she is involved in involves community.

Grandmont Rosedale encourages Detroit to “shop small”

It’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving and malls are full. Parking lots are crowded, lines are long and there’s more flesh pressed between the isles than leftover turkey between wheat and mayo. You’ve got family and friends on a holiday gift list, but you don’t want any part of this scene. So what’s the alternative?

Greening of Detroit plants nearly 70 new trees in Grandmont community

In the FOX-E report, a Detroit neighborhood is looking a little greener tonight.

How Detroiters Got Dozens Of Parks Reopened And Made The City Better For Kids

....Duggan’s program is new, but many parks have been informally maintained by community groups for years. In Grandmont, residents have long taken care of Ramsay Park; one man who lives by the park has been nicknamed “Mr. Ramsay” because of how much he looks after it. The Grandmont Community Association actually formally adopted Ramsay from the city several years ago, but Jomo King, who serves on the GCA board of directors, thinks the new program is a vast improvement.

Grandmont’s Cora Duncan-Foster: A Woman of Many Disguises

....Over the plus 20 years Cora worked as the SkillsUSA coordinator at Breithaupt, she not only has been very successful in getting students from all over Detroit to take advantage of the program, she has also helped train more than 20 of these student to hold office in the SkillsUSA program at regional and even state levels.

Meet Jomo King, Director of the Grandmont Arts and Craft Fair

This year...Jomo is putting his ideas to work. As director of the Art Fair and as a board member of the Grandmont Community Association, Jomo would like nothing more than to see all kinds of people come to participate in, and enjoy the Grandmont Arts and Craft Fair.

Fostering Grandmont Rosedale

Neighborhood-based nonprofit revamps homes, provides security and runs community programs to keep this thriving area of Detroit standing strong.

Retaining safety in Detroit with neighborhood patrols

....Coach Muhammad is president of the community patrol of the Grandmont neighborhood, in northwest Detroit. He volunteers 40 hours a week to keep his neighborhood safe.