Title: Focus: HOPE Collection Genre: Records Dates: 1960-2000 (Predominantly, 1970-1990) Size: 18 linear feet ID#: 1737 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs HEFA.01b.update |
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The records of Focus: HOPE were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in March of 2000 by the organization’s executive director, Eleanor Josaitis, and were opened for research in November of 2000.
Focus: HOPE emerged in March of 1968 from the ashes of the 1967 Detroit riot. The vision of two Catholic priests, Father William T. Cunningham and Father Jerome Fraser, and a suburban housewife and mother of five, Eleanor M. Josaitis, the largely volunteer civil and human rights organization has created an astonishing variety of innovative programs aimed at overcoming racism, poverty and injustice by fostering integration and bringing the urban unemployed into the economic mainstream, programs which have become a model for urban revitalization worldwide.
In the spring of 1968, many in Detroit were worried that the catastrophic events of the previous summer might repeat themselves. FOCUS: SUMMER HOPE, as it was then called, recruited and trained fifty area clergymen to address racial issues from the pulpit. Its symbol, two hands—one white, one black—reaching for each other under the sign of HOPE, expressed the themes of brotherhood and racial cooperation which energized the organization and informed programs like Project Trust, which developed a national model of race relations programming at desegregated public and private high schools in Detroit and its suburbs in the 1970s, and the annual Walk for Justice, successor to the brotherhood festivals staged in downtown Detroit beginning in 1970, which was patterned after the great civil rights marches of the 1960s.
Focus: HOPE first gained national attention with its comparative survey of pricing, product quality and service in inner city and suburban grocery stores and pharmacies. The results, published in 1968, underscored the link between poverty and hunger and convinced the city of Detroit to entrust the direction of its commodity supplemental food program for mothers and children to Focus: HOPE in 1971. Over the next several years, Focus: HOPE, with the help of Michigan legislators, struggled to preserve and expand its Food Prescription Program into the nation’s largest . In 1981, Congress, influenced by the Focus: HOPE/Wayne County Area Agency on Aging survey of malnutrition among senior citizens, narrowly authorized what came to be the highly successful Focus: HOPE Food for Seniors program.
Early on, Focus: HOPE had tied high rates of unemployment among Detroit African Americans to the exodus of employers to the suburbs, taking with them jobs black workers, without transportation and denied housing, had no hope of filling. That conviction led to its involvement in the successful class action lawsuit against the Automobile Club of Michigan, when the company moved its headquarters to Dearborn in 1972. By the early 1980s, Focus: HOPE recognized that the only way to move unemployed Detroiters into the economic mainstream was through job training and minority business development. Its own survey revealed a critical shortage of the skilled machinists necessary to automobile manufacturing as well as technical training opportunities for the unemployed. So, with support from private foundations, corporations and government, Focus: HOPE launched Industry Mall in purchased, donated and renovated property along Oakman Boulevard.
Industry Mall became the site for the Machinist Training Institute, where students received classroom training and practical experience in machine tool set-up and operation from retired industry experts. MTI’s debut in 1981, coincident with Michigan’s worst recession since the 1930s, insured funding through state and local job training programs, but also complicated the employment picture for its first graduates. Focus: HOPE responded by establishing minority-owned incubator companies like F & H Manufacturing (1983) and High Quality Manufacturing (1984) to employ its own graduates. When it became obvious that there weren’t enough eligible applicants with the basic skills necessary to succeed in the program, Focus: HOPE added FAST TRACK and First Step to facilitate recruitment and upgrade MTI candidates’ math, reading, communication and computer skills. And in 1987, Focus: HOPE, in yet another demonstration of its gift for crafting practical solutions to seemingly intractable problems, opened the Center for Children, serving the childcare needs of students and workers in Focus: HOPE programs.
Focus: HOPE’s crowning achievement came in 1989 when, after three years of intensive lobbying by the Michigan congressional delegation, the federal departments of Commerce, Defense, Education and Labor in a Memorandum of Understanding agreed to establish Focus: HOPE’s Center for Advanced Technologies as a national cooperative demonstration program to train workers in the multidisciplinary skills necessary to 21st-century manufacturing. The Greenfield Coalition (of universities and companies) for New Manufacturing Education was formed to design a cutting-edge academic engineering program combining practical production experience with theoretical training and former General Motors president, Lloyd Reuss was brought in as dean. The 220,000 square foot, award-winning CAT facility, the centerpiece of today’s Industry Mall, was dedicated in 1993.
Father Cunningham, Focus: HOPE’s brilliant planner and charismatic leader, died on May 26, 1997. His confidant and business partner for thirty years, Eleanor Josaitis, a woman described by her friend, Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin as the muscle of the operation, succeeded him as executive director.
Afro-Americans--Discrimination in employment--Michigan--Detroit
Afro-Americans--Economic conditions--Michigan--Detroit
Afro-Americans--Education--Michigan--Detroit
Aged--Michigan--Detroit
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction--Michigan--Detroit
Center for Advanced Technologies (Detroit, Mich.)
Child--Nutrition--Psychological aspects
Coalition for New Manufacturing Education
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (U.S.)
Community development, Urban--Michigan--Detroit
Corporations--Charitable contributions--Michigan
Cunningham, William T.
Day care centers--Michigan--Detroit
Detroit (Mich.) riot, 1967
Discrimination in housing--Michigan--Detroit
Federal aid to community development--Michigan-Detroit
Food relief--Law and legislation--United States
Ford Motor Company
General Motors Corporation
Greenspan, et al. v. Automobile Club of Michigan, et al.
Industry and education--Michigan--Detroit
Josaitis, Eleanor M.
Machine-tool industry--United States.
Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.)
Poor--Michigan--Detroit
Production engineering--United States
Race relations--Michigan--Detroit
Race relations--Religious aspects--Catholic Church. Diocese of Detroit (Mich.)
Reuss, Lloyd
School-to-work transition--Michigan--Detroit
Skilled labor--Effect of technological innovations on
Skilled labor--Training of--Michigan--Detroit
Unemployment--Michigan--Detroit
A large number of photographs, a few audio and video tapes and some slides, bumper stickers, posters and items of memorabilia have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
The Focus: HOPE Collection contains a wide variety of sources, including correspondence, statistical reports, financial records, survey data, grant proposals, legislative history and publicity, documenting the food distribution, human relations and job training programs Focus: HOPE pioneered to eliminate the racism, poverty and unemployment which fueled the 1967 Detroit riot. Additionally, the collection examines the motivation and careers of the organization’s co-founders, Father William Cunningham and Eleanor Josaitis.
18 storage boxes
Series I, Father William T. Cunningham and Eleanor M. Josaitis Files, 1960-2000, Boxes 1-2
Correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, speeches, awards and other material profiling the co-founders of Focus: HOPE. [Box1] [Box 2]
Series II, Food Programs, 1968-1994, Boxes 2-7
Correspondence, reports, testimony and other legislative history, newspaper and magazine articles, Focus: HOPE food center newsletters and recipes, conference materials, statistics, surveys and participant profiles relating to the USDA’s commodity supplemental food program and Focus: HOPE’s food distribution programs for mothers, children and senior citizens. [Box 3] [Box 4] [Box 5] [Box 6] [Box 7]
Series III, Industry Mall, 1978-2000, Boxes 8-13
Correspondence, staff notes, grant proposals, facility descriptions and architects’ plans, budgets, media coverage, visitor information and other material documenting the Machinist Training Institute and its school-to-work programs, the Center for Advanced Technologies, Focus: HOPE companies and similar programs in other cities. [Box 8] [Box 9] [Box 10] [Box 11] [Box 12] [Box 13]
Series IV, Other Focus: HOPE Programs, 1969-2000, Boxes 13-15
Correspondence, reports, programs, publicity and other promotional literature relating to benefit concerts and other fund-raising events like the Walk for Justice and Holiday Music Festival as well as special projects like the Center for Children, Journalism Olympics and the racial/sexual discrimination lawsuit against AAA. [Box 13] [Box 14] [Box 15]
Series V, Administrative and Subject Files, 1968-1997, Boxes 16-17
Correspondence, reports, financial records, meeting minutes, staff memoranda and profiles, departmental and early organizational files, material relating to corporate and foundation funding for Focus: HOPE programs and information about racial discrimination, especially with regard to housing, in the Detroit area. [Box 16] [Box 17]
Series VI, Publications and Media Coverage, 1970-2000, Box 18
Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, the newsletter and other Focus: HOPE publications chronicling the activities of the organization. [Box 18]
Contents |
[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6] [Box7] [Box8] [Box9] [Box10] |
Series I
Father William T. Cunningham and Eleanor M. Josaitis Files, 1960-2000
Boxes 1-2
[Box 1]
1. Father William T. Cunningham (WTC); Archdiocese of Detroit, 1976-84
2. WTC; article—”The Rebirth of the Manufacturing Center” NBD in the Community, Mar 1994
3. WTC; biographical profiles
4. WTC; biographical profiles—”The Man Who Brought Hope to Detroit” (draft manuscript by Laile Bartlett), 1985
5. WTC; Church of the Madonna, 1970s-1990s
6-8. WTC; correspondence, misc., n.d., 1974-85, 1988-96
9. WTC death; funeral, media coverage, 1997
10. WTC; honorary degrees, 1980-94
11. WTC; honors/awards, 1972-97
12. WTC; honors/awards—Gleitsman Foundation Citizen Activist Award, 1994
13. WTC; honors/awards—Southeast Michigan Chapter March of Dimes Humanitarian of the Year, 1986
14. WTC/EMJ; honors/awards—U-M SBA Business Leadership Award, 1993
15-20.WTC; media coverage, 1965-97
21-27.WTC; speaking engagements, 1960, 1973-96
28. WTC; speech—”The Crisis of Michigan Cities: Unemployment and Hunger” (Michigan State University), May 1983
29. WTC; speech—”Focus: HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies” (U-M Management Briefing Seminar), Aug 1992
30. WTC; speech—”Knowledge Is Change” (U-M Management Briefing Seminar), August 1996
31. WTC; speech—”The New Revolution” (National Center for Manufacturing Sciences), May 1990
32. WTC; speech—”A Proud Day for Focus: HOPE” (Michigan Society of Professional Engineers Joint Practice Division Conference), Nov 1993
33. WTC; speech—”The Renaissance Engineer” (Society of Manufacturing Engineers Forum), Nov 1992
[Box 2]
1. Eleanor M. Josaitis (EMJ); article—”Man-made rules must be examined,” Detroit Free Press, Sep 1985
2. EMJ; article—”Reflections of a City Mother,” HOPE HAPPENINGS, May 1973
3. EMJ; article on practical impact of Gaudium et Spes for The Michigan Catholic, 1985
4. EMJ; biographical profiles
5-15. EMJ; correspondence, misc., n.d., 1967-97
16. EMJ; corres., media coverage—Peter Teeley, 1981-92
17. EMJ; honorary degrees, 1986-95
18. EMJ; honors/awards, 1979-98
19. EMJ; honors/awards—Career Guild “Woman of the Year,” 1981
20. EMJ; honors/awards—Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame, 1996
21-22.EMJ; media coverage, 1973-2000
23-27.EMJ; speaking engagements, 1975-91, 1995
Series II
Food Programs, 1968-1994
Boxes 2-7
28. Carter-Mondale Committee on Food and Nutrition, 1976
29. Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP); appropriations, FY90-94
30. CSFP; bar coding proposal, 1988-91
31. CSFP; Bode, John, corres., 1984-89
32. CSFP; bonus cheese, 1988
33. CSFP; caseload and participation data, 1970s-1990s
34. CSFP; Center on Budget and Policy Priorities-sponsored survey and conference, 1985
35. CSFP; Congressional Reference Guide, 1994
36. CSFP; Conrail, 1972, 1982, 1984
37. CSFP; damaged infant formula article, 1993
[Box 3]
1-2. CSFP; evaluation, 1981-82
3. CSFP; External Advisory Panel on Alternatives to Commodity Donation in the National School Lunch Program, 1981-84
4. CSFP; Food Distribution Task Force meeting, Sep 1990
5. CSFP; infant formula rebate debate, 1988-90
6. CSFP; infant formula recall, 1978-79
7. CSFP; Interim Rule, 1980
8-9. CSFP; Michigan Dept. of Education, 1986-91
10-12. CSFP; Michigan State Plan, 1978-91
13. CSFP; national conference, 1980
14. CSFP; national conference, 1984
15. CSFP; national conference, 1988
16. CSFP; national conference—Food Storage and Distribution Workshop, 1988
17. CSFP; national conference—operator profiles survey, 1988
18. CSFP; national conference—recipe contest, 1988
19. CSFP; national conference, 1990
20. CSFP; national conference, 1993
21. CSFP; national conference, 1994
22. CSFP; other cities, 1983-86
23. CSFP; reauthorization (1990 Farm Bill)
24. CSFP; reauthorization—Commodity Donation Programs hearings (1990 Farm Bill)
25. CSFP; survey, 1981
[Box 4]
1-3. CSFP/WIC dual participation, 1988
4. Detroit Health Dept.; WIC grant application, 1974
5-7. Detroit Task Force on Hunger and Malnutrition, 1972, 1974-76
8. Detroit Urban League Food Market Survey Committee, 1976-77
9-12. “Focus: HOPE Food Center News,” 1978-88
13. Focus: HOPE recipes/cookbooks
14. Focus: HOPE testimony on federal nutrition programs, 1976-94
15. FOCUS: SUMMER HOPE consumer survey, 1968
16.. FOCUS: SUMMER HOPE consumer survey; media coverage, 1968
17-23.Food for Seniors program; corres. and reports, 1979-88
24. Food for Seniors program; descriptions, participant profiles, brochures, 1980s
25-26.Food for Seniors program; Detroit-Wayne County Area Agency on Aging-funded Senior Citizen Food Study, 1978-80
27. Food for Seniors program; evaluation, 1982
28. Food for Seniors program; forms, procedures, income guidelines
29. Food for Seniors program; media coverage, press releases, 1980-89
30. Food for Seniors program; newsletter, 1983-88
31. Food for Seniors program; statistics, 1982-86
[Box 5]
1-13. Food for Seniors program; statistics, Nov 1988-Nov 1990
14. Food for Seniors program; USDA Elderly Programs Study, 1989
15. Food for Seniors program; video project, 1985
16. Food Prescription Program; annual reports, 1971-77
17. Food Prescription Program; brochures, flyers, 1980s
18. Food Prescription Program; budgets, 1973-83
19. Food Prescription Program; Bush, George, visit, 1980
20. Food Prescription Program; commodities reports, 1980s
21-30.Food Prescription Program; corres. and reports, 1970-91
31. Food Prescription Program; descriptions, executive summaries, 1970-90
32. Food Prescription Program; expansion support letters, 1973
[Box 6]
1-2. Food Prescription Program; expansion support letters, 1974-75
3. Food Prescription Program; expansion to Oakland County; corres. and reports, 1983-85
4. Food Prescription Program; expansion to Oakland County; media coverage, 1982-87
5-6. Food Prescription Program; finances, 1972-86
7. Food Prescription Program; Focus: HOPE-sponsored visit of federal legislators and bureaucrats, 1983
8. Food Prescription Program; income guidelines, procedures, 1981-93
9-17. Food Prescription Program; media coverage, press releases, 1970-97
18. Food Prescription Program; Nutrition Education project proposal, c. 1982
19. Food Prescription Program; research, 1988
20-21.Food Prescription Program; statistical profile, Jan-Oct 1984, Oct-Dec 1985
22. Food Prescription Program; statistics, 1971-92
23-26.Food Prescription Program; statistics—Mothers and Children, Nov 1988-Jun 1989
[Box 7]
1-9. Food Prescription Program; statistics—Mothers and Children, Jul 1989-Nov 1990
10. Food Prescription Program; surveys, 1980s
11. Food Prescription Program; video projects, 1978-79, 1982-83
12. Government cheese distribution problems in Detroit; clippings, 1982
13. Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce Ad-Hoc Committee on Hunger, 1984
14. Hunger Relief Act, 1984
15. Inner city grocery stores, newspaper articles on, 1991
16. Kallen, Dr. David; presentation to Focus: HOPE on hunger, malnutrition and behavior, n.d.
17. Kennedy, Sen. Edward, hearing on hunger in America (Detroit); transcript, WTC testimony, 1983
18. Legislative history of federal food assistance programs
19-20.National Advisory Council on Commodity Distribution, 1988-91, 1994
21-22.National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant and Fetal Nutrition, 1979-89
23. National Child Nutrition Project, 1974-86
24. Panetta, Rep. Leon, hearings on federal nutrition programs, 1986
25. Share with a Senior program; brochures, reports, 1982-87
26. Share with a Senior program; media coverage, press releases, 1983-96
27. United Community Services (UCS) Children of the Unemployed Task Force, 1983-86
28-29.UCS Hunger Task Force, 1987-88
30. Wayne-Metropolitan Community Services Agency food distribution center, 1982
Series III
Industry Mall, 1978-2000
Boxes 8-13
[Box 8]
Industry Mall
1. Building photos
2. Bush, George, visit, 1982
3. Company letters of intent, 1981-82
4. Control Data Corp., 1980s
5. Ex-Cell-O Corp., 1980-84
6. Ford Motor Co., 1981-84
7-12. Health and Human Services, U.S. Dept. of, Community Services grant, 1982-85
13. Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Dept. of, 1984
14. Program descriptions, 1980s-1990s
15. Security, 1981
16. Tax abatement, 1978-82
17. United Automobile Workers Union, 1981
Machinist Training Institute/FAST TRACK
18. Accreditation, 1986
19-20.Accreditation report, 1988
21-22.Congressional hearings on relation of machine tool industry to national security, 1983-84
23-26.Corres., reports, proposals, 1981-90
27. Corres. from manufacturers re graduates, 1982
28. Department of Defense, U.S. (DOD); corres., 1981
[Box 9]
1. DOD; corres., 1982-84
2. DOD; DIPEC loan agreement and amendments, 1981-84
3. DOD; DIPEC statements of acceptance, 1981-82
4-5. Department of Education, U.S. (DOE); Cooperative Demonstration Program grant, 1989
6. Department of Labor, U.S. (DOL); Skilled Machinist Training Program(SMTP) grant, 1981-84
7. Detroit CETA funding, 1981-85
8. Enrollment and placement, 1984-87
9. Forms, publications, 1980s-1990s
10. Governor’s Office for Job Training (GOJT) Dislocated Worker Program proposal, 1988
11-14.GOJT Joint Training Program Act Title III grant, 1984-87
15. “Graduate Followup Report,” 1987
16. Graduation, 1982-90
17. High School Transition Program, 1987
18-24.Media coverage, press releases, 1981-99
25-26.Michigan Opportunity Skills Training program proposal, 1987-88
27. MTI/FAST TRACK funding, 1981-90
28. Private Industry Council—Wayne Co./Downriver, 1987
29. Program descriptions, curricula, 1981-85
30. Staff information, 1987
31. Training school fraud; clippings, 1992
[Box 10]
1. FAST TRACK; annual report to Kellogg Foundation, Jun 1989-May 1990
2. FAST TRACK; brochures, media coverage, 1989-92
3. FAST TRACK; corres. and reports, 1987-94
Center for Advanced Technologies
4. Advanced Center for Technology Training, 1982
5. Alaska; job training, 1989-90
6. Association for Manufacturing Technology, 1990-92
7. Building a Reemployment System Conference (DOL), 1994
8. Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT); Allied-Signal, 1989-91
9. CAT; candidates, misc., 1990s
10. CAT; Community Development Block Grant, 1988, 1990
11. CAT; concept development, 1986
12. CAT; concept, meeting to introduce, 10 Nov 1986
13. CAT; Conference Center
14-15.CAT; Data Base, 1988-89
16. CAT; dedication, Nov 1993
17-23.CAT; Commerce Dept. Economic Development Administration grant (facility preparation), 1987-89
24. CAT; DOD grant—controversy, corres. re, 1989
25. CAT; DOD grant—corres. and reports, 1986-90
26. CAT; DOD grant—media coverage, 1989
27. CAT; DOE grants; 1987-90
28. CAT; DOL grant, 1987
29. CAT; facility renovation—Albert Kahn, 1987-88
30. CAT; facility renovation—funding, 1997, 1989-90
[Box 11]
1. CAT facility; media coverage, 1991-92, 1995
2. CAT facility; technical proposal—Ghafari Associates, 1989
3. CAT facility; technical proposal—Giffels/Hoyem Basso, 1989
4. CAT facility; technical proposal—Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, 1989
5-11. CAT; media coverage, 1986-97
12. CAT; media coverage—“We Can Break the Catch-Up Syndrome” (Modern Machine Shop), Aug 1991
13. CAT; Office Tech preview benefit, 1995
14-16.CAT; proposal to federal government for cooperative demonstration program, 1987, 1989
17. CAT; proposal—Levin, Carl, support for, 1986-89
18-19.CAT; proposal—Memorandum of Understanding, 1987-89
20. CAT; proposal—Michigan congressional delegation support for, 1987-89
21. CAT; proposal—Mitchell, Capt. R. M., support for, 1989-90, 1994
22. CAT; proposal—private support for, 1987-90
23. CAT; proposal—Rye, John, consultancy, 1987-88
24. CAT; Reuss, Lloyd—biographical profiles, presentations, award, 1993-95
25. CAT; Reuss, Lloyd—media coverage, 1993-98
26. CAT; status reports, program descriptions, 1987-90
27. CAT; Total Energy System proposal to Gas Research Institute, 1990
28. CAT; visitors, 1990-97
29. CAT; visitors—Bush, George, corres. re, 1992
30. CAT; visitors—Clinton administration invitees, 1993
1. CAT; visitors—Clinton, Bill, corres. re, 1992-93
2-3. CAT; visitors—Clinton, Bill, corres./media coverage re, 1994
4. CAT; visitors—Erie County Technical Institute, 1995-96
5. CAT; visitors—Partnership for Advanced Technology Training, 1996
6. CAT; visitors—Polish Solidarity, 1990
7. CAT; Westinghouse factory automation system proposal, 1989
8. CAT; World Exposure Campaign, 1995-96
9. CETA Automatic Screw Machine Technician Training Program (St. Louis), 1980-81
10. Chicago Christian Industrial League, 1996
11. Coalition for New Manufacturing Education, 1993-94
12. Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce; report, 1990
13-14.Defense Industrial Strategy Conference, 1987
15. Focus: HOPE Information Technologies Center, 2000
16. “Focus: HOPE Manufacturing Technology Education,” 1991
17. Forum on Educational Competitiveness, 1991
18. Future of technology industries in Michigan; report, 1987
19. Job Start, 1989
20. Michigan Partnership for Economic Development Assistance, 1989
21. Midwest Manufacturing Technology Center, 1991
22. Modernizing America’s Industrial Base conference, 1991
23. National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 1987-88, 1990
24. National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing, 1990
25. Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency; Hyundai automotive Academy Training Program, 1994
26. “Successful Projects Share Common Strategy (GAO report), 1996
27. Tech Villas, 1993-97
28. Youth Services International, 1996
Focus: HOPE Companies
29. Aviation Engineering, 1983-85
30. Cycle-Tec Remanufacturing; advertising, media coverage, 1980s
31-35.Cycle-Tec Remanufacturing; corres. and reports, 1982-87
1-4. Cycle-Tec Remanufacturing; corres. and reports, 1987-89
5. Cycle-Tec Remanufacturing; Detroit Diesel, 1983
6. Cycle-Tec Remanufacturing; finances, 1984-86
7. Cycle-Tec Remanufacturing; Lamb Technicon Corp., 1981-83
8. Cycle-Tec Remanufacturing; lease, 1981-82
9. F & H Manufacturing, 1984-87
10. F & H Manufacturing; Q1 presentation, n.d.
11-12.High Quality Manufacturing, 1985-87
13. High Quality Manufacturing; Ford Motor Co. Q1 Award, 1989
14. Marketing brochures, 1990s
15. Minority Business Development proposal, 1981-82
16. Motor City Minority Development Corp., 1984, 1987
17. Six Twelve Metal Crafters, 1984-87
Series IV
Other Focus: HOPE Programs, 1969-2000
Boxes 13-15
18. Alternative Education program proposal to U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice Assistance, 1981
19-22.AAA lawsuit; briefs, corres., 1971-85
1. AAA lawsuit; funding, 1978-82
2. AAA lawsuit; Housing and Transportation Assistance Trust, 1983-86
3-4. AAA lawsuit; media coverage, 1971-84, 1990
5. AAA lawsuit; press releases, Focus: HOPE publicity, Lemenu drawings, 1970s-1980s
6. Benefit Hockey Game, 1970-74
7. Benefits, celebrations, misc., 1970s-1980s
8. Candlelight Celebration, 1996-97
9. Celebration on the River (Boblo Cruise), 1982-85
10. Center for Children; articles of incorporation, architect’s plans, 1984
11. Center for Children; building construction, 1984-88
12. Center for Children; corres. and reports, 1984, 1987-91
13. Center for Children; grand opening celebration, 1987
14. Center for Children; groundbreaking, 1986
15. Center for Children; Head Start proposal, 1985
16-17.Center for Children; HUD proposal, 1984
18. Center for Children; media coverage, 1986-92, 1995
19. Center for Children; Michigan Department of Social Services grants, 1987-89
20. Center for Children; Procedural Plan Book, 1984
21. Center for Children; publications, 1980s-1990s
22. Community Arts Dept.; projects, exhibits, 1994-96
23. Community Arts Dept.; projects, exhibits—“Countdown to Eternity,” 1994
24. Gift of Reading program, 1987-89
25. Holiday Music Festival; media coverage, 1971-92
26. Holiday Music Festival; programs, posters, 1970-95
27. Hope Happening, 1970-71
1-3. Hope Happening, 1972-74
4. Housing Fund proposal to the Campaign for Human Development, 1981
5. Impact of Mass Media project, 1976
6. James Tocco Benefit Concert, 1986
7-8. Journalism Olympics, 1985-97
9. Kiss/fm Benefit Concert, 1986
10. Martin Luther King Day, 1985-98
11. Oakman Court Home Renovation Project, 1990
12-13.Project Trust, 1976-79
14. Project Trust; High School Readiness Program, 1980-81
15. Russell Woods Apartments, 1980
16-32.Walk for Justice (Brotherhood, Walkalong), 1975-2000
33. “We’re All Winners” (Detroit Free Press Marathon), 1979-83
34. “We’re Still Here” (Focus: HOPE 11th anniversary celebration), 1979
Series V
Administrative and Subject Files, 1968-1997
Boxes 16-17
1. Birmingham, Mich. conference on racism, 1992
2. Birmingham, Mich. senior citizen housing controversy, 1978-82
3. “Black Racial Attitudes in Detroit: 1968-1976, A Note on Changes in,” 1977
4. “Chaldean Community of Metropolitan Detroit—Past and Present, A Look at the,” 1976
5. Detroit banks’ racial lending patterns, 1988
6. Enterprise Zones; report, article, 1981, 1994
7. Focus: HOPE Area Coordinators, 1971
8. Focus: HOPE Board of Directors; corres., reports, minutes, 1971-76, 1979-87
9. Focus: HOPE Board of Directors; Dario Bonucchi, 1970s
10. Focus: HOPE; Buildings and Grounds Dept., 1976-85
11. Focus: HOPE; Community and Volunteer Resource Dept., 1982-91
12. Focus: HOPE; computer system, 1980s
13-15.Focus: HOPE; finances, 1971-88
16. Focus: HOPE; fire, 1978
17. Focus: HOPE funding; Chrysler Corp. and Fund, 1978-89
18. Focus: HOPE funding; corporate appeals, 1974-82
19. Focus: HOPE funding; Detroit Investment Fund, 1996
20. Focus: HOPE funding; Ford Foundation—Project Trust, 1976-81
21. Focus: HOPE funding; Ford Motor Company Fund, 1978-86
22. Focus: HOPE funding; foundations, misc., 1970s-1980s
23. Focus: HOPE funding; fund-raising letters, 1970s-1980s
24. Focus: HOPE funding; Gannett Foundation, 1985-86
25. Focus: HOPE funding; General Motors Corp. and Foundation, 1973-91
26. Focus: HOPE funding; Hudson-Webber Foundation, 1978-89
27. Focus: HOPE funding; IBM, 1988-91
28. Focus: HOPE funding; Kellogg Foundation, 1978-88
29. Focus: HOPE funding; Kresge Foundation, 1974-89
30. Focus: HOPE funding; McGregor Fund, 1982-85
31. Focus: HOPE funding; Michigan Bell, 1981-82
32. Focus: HOPE funding; Michigan Consolidated Gas Co., 1985-89
33. Focus: HOPE funding; Michigan Investment Fund, 1983-84
1. Focus: HOPE funding; Michigan, state of, 1987-90
2. Focus: HOPE funding; Mott Foundation—CAT facility preparation, 1988-90
3-4. Focus: HOPE funding; Mott Foundation—Industry Mall/SMTP, 1981-85
5. Focus: HOPE funding; Mott Foundation—Project Trust, 1978-79
6. Focus: HOPE funding; National Bank of Detroit, 1972-88
7. Focus: HOPE funding; National Bank of Detroit—Louise Tuller Miller Trust, 1973-90
8. Focus: HOPE funding; National Bank of Detroit—SMTP/CAT, 1989-96
9. Focus: HOPE funding; Neighborhood Opportunity Fund, 1982-83
10. Focus: HOPE funding; New Detroit, 1971-80
11. Focus: HOPE funding; Sage Foundation, 1973-82
12. Focus: HOPE funding; Skillman Foundation—Center for Children, 1985
13. Focus: HOPE funding; Skillman Foundation—FAST TRACK, 1989-90
14. Focus: HOPE; incorporation documents, 1968-89
15. Focus: HOPE; Litigation Unit, 1981-82
16. Focus: HOPE; management meetings, 1977-89
17. Focus: HOPE; managers’ annual reports, 1983
18. Focus: HOPE; personnel—Azizi Adisa Masai case, 1979
19. Focus: HOPE; personnel—directories, policies and procedures, 1970s-1980s
20. Focus: HOPE; purchasing policy, 1980s
21. Focus: HOPE; reorganization, report on proposed, 1983
22. Focus: HOPE; Resource Dept., 1983-84, 1990
23. Focus: HOPE staff; Ciesnicki, David, 1979-82
24. Focus: HOPE staff; Connelly, Stan, 1979-92
25. Focus: HOPE staff; Kudek, Ken, poems by, n.d.
26. Focus: HOPE staff; Lemenu, Jerry, 1977-79
27. Focus: HOPE staff; Little, Wilfred, 1995
28. Focus: HOPE staff; miscellaneous, 1972-94
29. Focus: HOPE staff newsletter (“Inside Hope”), 1982-86
30. Focus: HOPE; video production, 1980s
31. Focus: HOPE; “Visitor Notes and Comments,” 1997
32-33.FOCUS: SUMMER HOPE, 1968-69
34. Group homes, 1978
35. Handguns, 1984-88
36. Joy of Jesus 20th Anniversary Banquet, 1996
37. Linwood/Oakman Blvd. Business Improvement Group, 1990-91
38. Lucas, William, nomination, 1989
39. Michigan Catholic Conference video, “A Future with Hope,” 1995
40. Michigan Economic and Social Opportunity Commission, 1983-90
41. “Poverty and Racism in Detroit Model Neighborhood,” 1970
Series VI
Publications and Media Coverage, 1970-2000
Box 18
1-2. Annual reports, program descriptions, general informational brochures, 1970s-1990s
3. Contributor/holiday cards
4. “Cope Happenings,” (spoof of Focus: HOPE newsletter), Dec 1974
5-6. “Focus: HOPE Is .…” 1980s-1990s
7-21. Media coverage, general, 1972-2000
22-28.Newsletter (HOPE HAPPENINGS, Focus: HOPE News), Nov 1970-97
29. “Poor People’s Paper,” n.d.