David Sands

Friday, May 06, 2016
David Sands is a Detroit-based freelance writer. He's covered the news for Huffington Post Detroit as an assistant editor and worked as a staff writer for the transportation news site Mode Shift. Follow him on Twitter @dsandsdetroit.

Feature Story Roughly 13,000 area youth participated in Detroit PAL activities before the COVID-19 outbreak. Kids and Education

Voices of Youth: Detroit PAL teens share surprising thoughts on life during COVID-19, BLM protests

David SandsTuesday, June 16, 2020
Partner Content Gavin McGuire, chief operations officer of BGCSM Kids and Education

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Michigan prepares to make its reopening safe and healthy for youth

David SandsTuesday, May 12, 2020
Partner Content So far, BGCSM employees have distributed more than 1,300 meals to families in need across Southeast Michigan. Kids and Education

COVID-19 poses major challenges for Detroit organizations serving youth, but the mission continues

David SandsTuesday, March 31, 2020
Partner Content Kids participate in a Best Food Forward class at Pearl Lean Elementary in Warren. Healthy Communities

Working together to improve food security in Warren

David SandsTuesday, March 24, 2020
Feature Story La Casa Guadalupana offers Adult Basic Education (ABE) and General Education Diploma (GED) classes four days a week. Both are taught in Spanish, as more than 50 percent of the population in the surrounding community there are Hispanic. Community Development

La Casa Guadalupana is making Spanish-focused adult ed a reality in Southwest Detroit

David SandsTuesday, December 03, 2019
Feature Story Attendees take part in a healing justice workshop that involved members of Healing by Choice! at the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at the WSU Law School in October. Technology and Innovation

Healing justice group Healing By Choice! engages community in wellness activities

David SandsTuesday, November 05, 2019
Feature Story The former Immaculata High School, closed in 1984, will be renovated to house the new high school in Fall 2020. Kids and Education

What you need to know about the closing of Marygrove College

David SandsTuesday, October 29, 2019
Feature Story I’Sha Schultz-Spradlin and her husband liked the neighborhood they were living in, but were priced out. After conducting an online housing search, they eventually discovered their future home on San Juan. Community Development

Detroit's Fitzgerald Revitalization Project rolls forward — with some bumps along the way

David SandsTuesday, September 24, 2019
Feature Story Fel'le's "King LeRoy" mural in Live6 Arts and Culture

Explore the new murals and mosaics livening up Live6

David SandsTuesday, August 20, 2019
Feature Story Mark Crain Community Development

How a cross-cultural coalition is making a 'Dream of Detroit' real in one Motor City neighborhood

David SandsTuesday, August 13, 2019
Feature Story Joe Robinson Entrepreneurship

Hip-hop entrepreneur finds ways to give back to the community through buy land initiative, run club

David SandsTuesday, July 23, 2019
Feature Story Brilliant Detroit's neighborhood hub in Fitzgerald. Community Development

A once-blighted Fitzgerald home is finding new life as an early childhood learning center

David SandsTuesday, June 18, 2019
Feature Story Gary Ringer. Photo by Stephen Koss. Entrepreneurship

Detroit firefighter takes on blight with deconstruction business

David SandsTuesday, June 11, 2019
Feature Story Krista McClure of the Detroit Parent Collective Community Development

These 3 Detroit spaces are helping transform a strip of McNichols into a community hub

David SandsTuesday, May 21, 2019
Feature Story Participants of the day's event play the Developer Role Playing Game. Community Development

5 takeaways from Model D's ReImagining Equitable Development event

David SandsTuesday, April 30, 2019
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