Life Remodeled-A Nonprofit Corporation

Six day project - each year, life remodeled mobilizes thousands of volunteers over six days to clear blight and beautify a detroit neighborhood surrounding one of our opportunity hubs. In 2024, the 6dp was held in the denby community. Throughout the process of unifying for a common mission, participants from the city and the suburbs begin to realize how much they respect and need each other which is a catalyst for long-term relationships and partnerships.september 23-28, 2024, we mobilized 5,314 volunteers to clear blight on 283 blocks, recycle 353 tires, install 100 ring doorbells for community members, and haul 840 truckloads of trash (equivalent of 8 miles of 1x1ft garbage piles). We ended 2024's 6dp with a community resource fair held on the anchor detroit campus to introduce ourselves and provide assistance to over 700 denby community residents.

Youth engagement - life remodeled has seen a direct link between engagement from students and families in the neighborhoods we serve equating to success of the programs at the dis. Therefore, we continue to engage with the students, parents, staff and teachers at durfee elementary-middle and central high school in order to reach our goals of helping the schools increase attendance as well as improve math and reading scores.in 2024, life remodeled focused on continuing to build youth engagement efforts in detroit. Life remodeled helped durfee and central students through a variety of summer, back to school, and after school programs including career vision day, a week long back to school kick-off event, and field day. We also hosted more than 1,400 youth and families during our monthly lit fridays and other youth events such as an easter egg hunt, summer bbq, christmas giveaway, etc. 2023 also saw the continuation of the durfee scholars initiative (dsi) a program to help foster better communications/relations between life remodeled and the afformentioned schools in which students completed various attendance and academic goals to gain tickets that could be traded in for access to lit friday events and other incentives held at the schools during the school day.finally, life remodeled was able to continue to engage with our life remodeled youth alliance who continue to grow in their leadership abilities and advisory capacity.

Life remodeled continued focus on community engagement. In the durfee and denby communities this included hosting events such as our annual summer block party. There was also the next level nonprofit program to help coach other non-profits to use the tools lr has used to succeed in the nfp space, the dexter facade project to help revitalize various businesses along the dexter corridor, and prom remodeled, a fundraising and community event meant to bring donors and community members together to foster communication and understanding at the dis. Work began on "opportunity remodeled," a new program life remodeled would be initiating in 2025.