CEDAM's Action Alert Items!

Hazard mitigation seeks to increase the resiliency of communities by designing and deploying long-term solutions that reduce the impact of disasters in the future. Risk reduction projects can break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction and repeated damage.  In an era where the Nation is facing unprecedented risk from natural hazards, pandemics and economic disruption — it is essential for mitigation to elevate equity and community participation, while also addressing other community needs like public health, municipal funding and housing.

In an era where the Nation is facing unprecedented risk from natural hazards, pandemics and economic disruption — it is essential for mitigation to elevate equity and community participation, while also addressing other community needs like public health, municipal funding and housing.

Please join Enterprise Community Partners and CDAD on Tuesday, December 8, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., for a webinar on eviction prevention during Covid-19. Geared towards advocates, social service providers, and community development practitioners, the webinar will feature discussions of existing legal protections, resources, and services for eviction prevention, how legal service providers, landlords, courts, and local governments are responding, and the outlook for 2021.

Please join Enterprise Community Partners and CDAD on Tuesday, December 8, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., for a webinar on eviction prevention during Covid-19.

On Friday, December 11 from 9:30 - 10:30 am, small business owners are invited to join the Downtown Detroit BIZ, the City of Detroit, Detroit Means Business, and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) for a grant readiness webinar. Help spread the word to impacted restaurants, bars, gyms, hotels, conference centers, etc. in your neighborhoods.

As another heightened wave of COVID-19 sweeps our nation, the Desai Sethi Foundation is launching CRP: Boost!, a prize of up to $75,000 to support nonprofits that have promising approaches to some of the challenges we are facing due to COVID-19.

Yesterday, the Michigan Strategic Fund Board authorized a $10 million grant program to help meet the urgent needs of small businesses disproportionately impacted the COVID-19 virus. The Pure Michigan Small Business Relief Initiative will utilize federal CARES Act funding through our CDBG program to award grants of $15,000 to more than 650 small businesses across Michigan.

From impacts of the election to a larger 2021 LIHTC funding round, there is much to discuss ahead of the February 1 application deadline.