03 Partners

The Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP)

The Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides both in-school and out-of-school time educational experiences to over 4,000 youth per year  in the Detroit area. DAPCEP students are between the ages of 5 and 18 and are in grades K-12. Generating excitement about STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) at a young age and increasing academic capacity is the key to growing the number of students who pursue STEMM degrees in college and ultimately fill the talent pipeline for Metropolitan Detroit and the nation.  Since 1976, DAPCEP has engaged thousands of students from numerous public, private and charter schools in the tri-county area (Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties), with particular focus on the city of Detroit. Through partnerships with eight Michigan universities, they place these youths in university environments on Saturdays during the school year and in camp format during the summer. These opportunities allow youth to learn advanced STEMM topics while simultaneously adapting an “I can go to college, because I’ve been to college” frame of mind. All students who attend public schools, charter schools, and private school are welcome to apply for DAPCEP.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Lawrence Technological University (LTU)

Lawrence Technological University was born 80 years ago in the middle of an innovation explosion that would change the world. None other than Henry and Edsel Ford helped launch the revolutionary experiment that would become LTU, providing guidance and space in their sprawling former Model T assembly plant for the fledgling school.  

Today, they are still changing the world. Since those early beginnings students and alumni have gone on to design and engineer the tools, buildings, and products that helped define their generations. And tomorrow’s LTU students will do the same.

LTU is about “Theory and Practice” – taking abstract ideas into the real world to solve tomorrow’s problems. Their reputation comes as much from what they are doing now as it does from their storied past.  

Detroit Housing Commission (DHC)

In 1933, the City of Detroit established the Detroit Housing Commission (“DHC”) under the Michigan Housing Facilities Act. Throughout the DHC’s 75 year history, their mission has been to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing for the low and moderate-income people that we serve.  DHC is the largest owner of rental housing in the City of Detroit (“City”), providing approximately 4,000 housing units for seniors and families. In addition, to operating a Low-Income Public Housing Program, the DHC also operates a Housing Choice Voucher Program (“Section 8”) through its Assisted Housing Department. Currently, the DHC administers approximately 6000 vouchers under the Section 8 Program.  

DHC’s annual operating revenue is approximately $71,009,500. Its funds come from five main sources: HUD's annual operating subsidy; HUD's annual Capital Fund; Section 8 administrative fees; rent from public housing residents; and other program and capital grants from various sources.  The DHC continues to explore alternative funding sources and has built numerous key partnerships with City and State agencies, nonprofit foundations, community-based organizations and private developers.  They serve their customers without regard to familial status, marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, physical handicap, or disability.                                                                                                           

National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Detroit Chapter (NOMA Detroit)

"NOMA-Detroit is a chapter of The National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), a 501-C(6) non-profit organization whose mission is to champion diversity within the design professions by promoting the excellence, community engagement, and professional development of its members.  NOMA-Detroit aspires to be the voice, the vehicle for advancement and resource for minorities in and affected by the practice of architecture in the Detroit Metropolitan area and southeast Michigan."