FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 22, 2014
Michigan Black Expo Engages New Fiduciary Partnership
to Support Detroit Helping Detroit Organization
METRO GRAND RAPIDS & METRO DETROIT – A dynamic new collaboration between non-profit
society enhancement organization – Michigan Black Expo, Inc. (MBEI) – and a new Detroit-based
collective of entertainment industry philanthropists – Detroit Helping Detroit (D
HD) – has resulted in the
launch of the new MBEI-DHD Fiduciary Partnership (MBEDHD). This fiduciary vehicle – initiated by
DHD Founder and Executive Director of Operations Mr. Chichester in conjunction with MBEI
leadership – will enable DHD to receive tax-deductible funding through MBEI’s non-profit infrastructure
that will support DHD’s mission to galvanize financial support for organizations that address the needs of
Detroit’s marginalized communities. DHD Founder Chichester states, “It is my pleasure to officially announce our fiduciary partnership with
MBEI. It will be the work of DHD and its close group of artists and professionals from the Detroit
entertainment industry to focus on helping the homeless, the poor and the disenfranchised of Detroit. If
people know of someone who desperately needs a critical bill paid or know of a struggling family that
needs a helping hand, please have them contact DHD for assistance. If someone has the will to help, we
can work together to make a change in Detroit”. Additionally, Chichester has indicated that DHD has
attracted the attention of both local and national artists who are interested in donating their time to the
DHD cause and to not only help rebuild Detroit, but to help DHD enable its constituents to succeed. Following last year’s successful fiduciary partnership between MBEI and Grand Rapids-based Mr. B’s
Basketball, Reading & Math Camp, the MBEDHD fiduciary partnership is now unfolding concurrently
with MBEI’s multi-faceted urban media and youth enhancement endeavors. These initiatives include 1]
the work of MBEI’s Urban Media/Youth Enhancement Advocacy Council (UMYE) to produce urban
media-based opportunities to transform at-risk youth into successful and upright young adults and 2] the
work to generate awareness and financial support for implementing MBEI’s long-planned URBRadio
urban media platform and its inter-connected Youth TeleCommunications Institute (YTC) and Youth
Music Institute (YMI) urban media industry technical schools as well as plans for a statewide academic
achievement, heritage enrichment and public service youth group for Michigan public schools students. Detroit Helping Detroit (DHD), based in Metro Detroit, is a collective of artists and professionals from
the Detroit entertainment industry brought together to focus on helping the homeless, the poor and the
disenfranchised of Detroit [Email: [email protected]]. (MBEI), based in Metro Grand Rapids, is Michigan’s non-profit social change, social justice and society
enhancement organization that endeavors to fund its work by engaging a sustainable statewide industry
out of the development of MBEI-branded society-enhancement events, products and services.
