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Detroit safety efforts get boost
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$300,000 will support efforts to improve neighborhood safety initiatives
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Greetings!
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In our most recent round of grantmaking, which totaled $3.17 million, one focus was neighborhood safety. A grant for $200,000 to the Detroit Crime Commission will expand the Threat Assessment and Intelligence Project, a comprehensive crime prevention strategy that uses community intelligence and threat assessment, gang intervention, nuisance abatement, landlord training and criminal investigations and analytical support We're also pleased to see neighborhood police back in Detroit! To support it, a $100,000 grant went to the Detroit Public Safety Foundation to support the Neighborhood Police Officer Program (NPO's) pilot and the Children in Trauma Intervention (CITI) Camp. This grant will provide mobile technology -- 40 smart phones and 40 tablets -- to neighborhood-assigned officers working in the six targeted neighborhoods where we work. It will also fund a consultant with deep community policing experience to lead the implementation of the CITI camp. Read about all of our recent grants here.
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Tonya Allen to speak on panel at inaugural Detroit Film Festival 
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In the News...
Boys of Color key to Detroit's future
Earlier this month, Allen joined forces with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan in an editorial for the Detroit Free Press about the President Obama-led My Brother's Keeper Initiative. It touched on the need to take the plight of young African American and Latino men seriously, as many work to create a brighter future for the city and its diverse residents. Read the full editorial here.
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