Michigan Community

Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators

The upcoming Dropout Challenge initiative is an ongoing process stemming from our involvement with America’s Promise and Michigan’s Children (statewide dropout summit 2008) to increase knowledge of dropout prevention research, share ways other schools and districts have bridged research to practice and share how community partners are being used to support the effort. Focus will involve exploring further how to connect research to practice, engaging various schools and districts successes to share how they are closing the achievement gap for students with disabilities, using student achievement data to support instructional decision-making, improving adolescent literacy, and helping schools to navigate the path to college.

Michigan Nonprofit Association

State Farm supports the "Live 2 Give: Two Methods, One Mission," emphasizing the importance of two outstanding youth development & leadership programs coming together to empower 400 people from across state of Michigan to actively collaborate in serving the greater good. During these tough times, The LEAGUE Michigan is teaming up with the Council of Michigan Foundations and its Michigan Community Foundations' Youth Project (MCFYP) to share resources and increase overall impact and effectiveness. By bringing together both groups, youth grant makers and their advisors from area community foundations' Youth Advisory Committees (YACs) will help fund projects designed and implemented by the service-learning students to address the need in their communities. Through these projects, we foresee further increases in state-wide volunteerism, service-learning, and philanthropy by including those youth grant makers and their networks.

Habitat for Humanity, Monroe County

In conjunction with our local agency partners, the Monroe community will provide a hands-on education for the students enrolled in the Construction Technology class at Monroe High School by building a simple, decent and affordable house within their school district for a family in need. The Youth Educational Construction Program integrates core classroom curriculum with service to the community through a partnership with a local school district. The grassroots educational initiative of youth through collaboration and partnerships to build a better community together. The students enrolled in the High School's Construction Technology class will gain the following objectives:

1. Hands-on jobsite construction education of various skills and trades for the youth's future.
2. Community will provide an on-the-job learning experience through financial donations,
   gift-in-kind donations and volunteered labor.
3. An accredited curriculum for graduation will expose the student to "community service" aspect
   from start-to-finish by building the house and working with the family and community to achieve
   the outcome of a completed house by the end of the school year.
4. An opportunity for students to apply for college credits with Henry Ford Community College
   and/or Monroe County Community College in the construction field.
5. The students will assist the community in addressing the affordable housing shortage for
   very low-income residents by building one house at a time in their school district.
6. The students will assist the community in advocating for the critical need in Monroe County for affordable housing.
7. The students will assist the community in advocating on behalf of those working low-income families in need.