Allen Neighborhood Center serves the Eastside Community by providing services in housing, health, food, and other support services for seniors and youth. ANC also provides support service for organized neighborhood groups such as techinical assistance, meeting spaces, and use of the copy and fax machine. To contact ANC please call 367-0158 or visit their website at www.allenneighborhoodcenter.org. ANC is located at 1619 East Kalamazoo Street, Lansing, Michigan 48912.
ANC is offering two free workshops: The Basics of Buying a Home on Lansing's Eastside and Landscaping Your Sustainable Eastside Home: Garden Design for Home Energy Savings, Water Conservation, and Food Production. For more information visit ANC website at www.allenneighborhoodcenter.com.
Baker Donora Focus Center serves the Baker Donora and Fabulous Acres community by providing after school youth programs, health outreach, adult programs, GED & English as a Second Language Classes, and C.E.R.T. Training. To contact the Baker/Donora Focus Center call 485-0907 or visit www.bakerdonoracenter.com. The Baker Donora Focus Center is located at 840 Baker Street, Lansing, Michigan 48910.
Eastside Community Action Center current programs consist of a food bank, clothing closet, personal adjustment counseling (sliding fee scale), after school program for ages 5-12, mentoring program for ages 5-16, family forums that include dinner and discussion on family issues, moms talk groups that provides a social and support outlet for moms, and a computer lab. For more information call 853-0414 or email at ECACLansing@hotmail.com.
Northwest Healthy Initiatives(NWI) serves the city area bounded by the Grand River on the north, east, and south side by providing services in food, health, after school programs for the youth, vision 2020, and tax preparation. To contact NWI call 999-2894 or visit www.nwlansing.org. NWI is located at 1012 North Walnut, Lansing, Michigan 48906. http://nwlansing.org.p2.hostingprod.com/
South Lansing Community Development Association All of SLCDA's programs are citizen-driven. We've been gathering input from the South Lansing community at master planning forums, community visioning sessions, and neighborhood-based meetings for several years. Our programs are designed to give life to the community's "voice" by providing resources and advocacy to achieve goals identified consistently by the widest range of stakeholders. The work we do in no way addresses all of the issues raised, but it's certainly a start. http://www.southlansing.org/
Garden Education Collaborative The Greater Lansing Garden Education Collaborative has produced an awesome postr full of classeses and hands-on workshops for gardners of all skill levels (you may have seen them around town). Classes cover a wide variety of garden topics and ore offered at locations throughout Lansing. Check out the calendar online at www.LetsGardenLansing.org.
Southside Community Coalition serves the southside of Lansing by providing after school programs, summer progams, nutrition programs, health programs, food programs, and many other programs that services youth and seniors. To contact the SCC for further information about programs call 394-7400 or visit www.southsidecommunitycoalition.org. SCC is located 2101 West Holmes Road, Lansing, Michigan 48911.
Free Youth Programs are available. To Enroll contact Yolanda Sherrer at 394-3138.
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Helpful Links
Housing
Greater Lansing Housing Coalition (GLHC):provides quality affordable housing for low and moderate income persons and help revitalize neighborhoods. http://www.glhc.org/
Habitat for Humanities:is working to eliminate substandard housing and improve neighborhoods by working in partnership with economically disadvantaged families to achieve and maintain home ownership. We are a volunteer, ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to healthy communities and believing in a hand-up not a hand-out. We build and repair homes with families in need who have accepted the responsibility to improve their lives and community. We do this to foster self-sufficiency and hope. http://www.habitatlansing.org/
Land Bank: The Land Bank is a county authority and a strategic economic tool that supports growth and investment in our community. Land Banks were created to return tax reverted property to productive use as rapidly as possible. These reverted properties commonly come through the tax foreclosure process. A Land Bank may concentrate its efforts on an entire neighborhood that needs reinvestment. The Land Bank will buy, renovate and resell multiple properties in a designated area with a goal of owner-occupancy. http://www.inghamlandbank.org/
Lead Safe Lansing: The "Lead Safe Lansing" Program also offers free Safe Work Practices training to Lansing residents, landlords, maintenance workers, and contractors interested in learning how to properly repair painted surfaces in their homes. http://www.lansingmi.gov/pnd/development/lead_safe_lansing.jsp
Paint A Place: This all-volunteer workforce helps paint, do carpentry work, re-roof houses, and do minor repairs at no cost to the homeowner.They work with other organizations and help link residents with the resources they need to empower themselves to make changes and repairs, which allows them to have pride in their homes. PaintAPlace@yahoo.com
Rebuilding Together:to preserve and revitalize houses and communities; assuring that low-income disabled and older adult homeowners live in warmth, safety and independence. http://www.rebuildingtogetheringhamcounty.org/ Urban Options: Urban and Northern Options provide practical energy efficiency and environmental sustainability solutions for residents and businesses in Michigan. We fulfill our mission by providing information, educational programs, demonstrations, and energy efficiency programs and services that encourage practical actions people can take to improve the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability of their homes, businesses and communities. http://urbanoptions.org/
Garden Project/Greater Lansing Food Bank:To raise money, food and in-kind contributions for meeting the emergency food needs of the greater Lansing are;,to coordinate and support the work of the food pantries in the area; to promote, encourage and emphasize self-help programs toward the goal of self-sufficiency; and; to educate the community on hunger issues.http://lansingfoodbank.org/garden-project
Salvation Army: The Salvation Army's social services encompass a wide range of programs to help individuals and families such as Food Pantry, Rent Assistance, Utilities, Personal Needs, Michigan ID, and Community Kitchen. http://www.usc.salvationarmy.org/lansing
Boys and Girls Club’s mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. http://www.bgclansing.org/
The First Tee Mid-Michigan mission is to impat the lives of young people by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote character development and life-enhancing values through the game of golf. To learn about the summer golf program for youth (ages 8-17) visit http://www.thefirstteemidmichigan.org or call (517) 281-7475.
MYLead: MYLead will provide experiences to Michigan youth, through energetic interaction with leaders of today and positive peers, to enable young leaders at a crucial stage in their individual development. http://www.mylead.org/
Reach Art Studio:Believes that art in all its forms can be a vehicle for hope and healing, REACH Studio Art Center exists to foster awareness of, appreciation for, encouragement in and skill acquisition of the arts within a neighborhood setting. REACH seeks to connect artists with local residents, local residents with each other, and artists with other artists, and people with a better understanding of their place in this world, creating an atmosphere of connectedness, shared pride and creative problem solving.Focus will be on the visual arts, including such media as painting, drawing, fiber, photography, clay, sculpture, collage, puppet-making, and mixed media. Other art forms (e.g. music, theater and literary) will be employed on occasion to enhance the overall creative experience. http://www.reachstudioart.org/
