Greetings!
You are invited to a Meeting of the Safest City Coalition

November 6th, 2024 – Wednesday
Start 7:30 pm ET
End 8:30 pm ET

Action Items
• Everyone
o Review the web site (https://SafestCityCoalition.org ) and identify what needs to be altered. Send Jeff an email about what we find
o Reading works
 https://skilledwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Reading-Works-Story-2011-2020.pdf
 Article on the history and progress made in literacy in the city of Detroit by Reading Works
o Everyone please look to see who they know on the Reading Works excel sheet
 Contact the people you know and invite then to join us
o
• Dennis
o Read the report about Reading Works that Jeremy distributed
 https://skilledwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Reading-Works-Story-2011-2020.pdf
o Contact Detroit Fund about getting grants
 Dorit has information
• Dorit:
o Talk with Luther about helping us get an article in a publication. (Detroit News, Free Press, Cranes, Public Radio)
 Wee need to write a preliminary paper for Luther to edit
o Contact people from the reading works list
o
• Jeremy:
o Review the web site (https://SafestCityCoalition.org ) and identify what needs to be altered.
 Send Jeff an email about what we find
o Contact people from the reading works list
o
• Michael:
o
• Jeff:
o Add more of the Coalition Members to the web site
o Extract from the Reading Works report a list of people for us to contact. Then divide the list among us.
 Names of people and organizations are extracted
 Excel spreadsheet is at Reading Works
o Review the comments about the web site and either make the changes or question the need for them.
o Set up emails for Jeremy, Mike, and Dorit
 Sent email to TechSoup, said response could take a few weeks
 Got a email back from TechSoup need to do some more work
 Will call the IRS to get a needed letter
o Contact the former organizer of Reading Works (person who wrote the article he took statistics from). Ask him to join our effort or at least meet with us.
 Reached out to him through Facebook
 Got response from Paul A
• Said he would like to meet with us to discuss Reading Works
• Waiting to get response from him about when
• Will message him again to arrange a meeting
o Change the donate page to include CashApp and Zelle.
o set us up to be one of the charities on the starfish app.
 Allows people to donate through that app
o Contact Jeff Tepperman at Teppermans (a canadian furniture company that donates a lot to things that make a difference for Detroit) about being one of the philanthropies at the May event.
o Contact the NGOs that Mike had contacted.
 Ask some to be on a panel of service leaders and philanthropists.
o Contact Justin Kimpson from the Ford Resource Center about using their location for the Literacy Project Event.
o Contact Huntington District Manager about using the Huntington Building for a literacy project event
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• JJ:

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