Focus: HOPE Tour
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
8:00-10:00 a.m.
Focus: HOPE has been engaged in “intelligent and practical action to overcome
racism, poverty, and injustice” in metropolitan Detroit for more than 40 years.
Since 1981, it has been training people for careers, including those in
machining, manufacturing, engineering, information technologies and
weatherization.
On this tour you will see its Center for Advanced Technologies,
which houses the Information Technologies Center (IT training); an engineering
degree program; R&D for the U.S. Department of Defense; a manufacturing and
assembly partnership with Android Industries (producing components for the
Chevy Volt);and more.
You will also have the opportunity to see Focus: HOPE’s green business
incubator space, Center for Children, food distribution center and warehouse,
and its neighborhood revitalization efforts. Come and learn about one of our
region’s most important and longstanding non-profit organizations.
The cost for this tour is $15 with all proceeds being donated to Focus: HOPE.
For questions, please contact Lynn Norwood at the SAE Detroit Section office at
(248) 324-4445 ext. 5 or lnorwood@saedetroit.org. The tour will begin at the Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) at 1400 Oakman Blvd., Detroit, Michigan 48238. Secure parking is available in the lot across the street from the CAT (enter the lot from LaSalle).
About Focus: HOPE
In 1968, Father William Cunningham (1930-1997) and Eleanor Josaitis (1931-2011)
co-founded Focus: HOPE , an organization dedicated to intelligent and practical
solutions to the problems of hunger, economic disparity, inadequate education,
and racial divisiveness. Together, they adopted the following mission.
Recognizing the dignity and beauty of every person, we pledge intelligent and
practical action to overcome racism, poverty and injustice. And to build a
metropolitan community where all people may live in freedom, harmony, trust and
affection. Black and white, yellow, brown and red from Detroit and its suburbs
of every economic status, national origin and religious persuasion we join in
this covenant.
—Adopted March 8, 1968
