The Pipeline is Online!

Check out the latest Pipeline (Summer/Fall 2010) by clicking here. Register below today to receive email notifications.

Now, you can access the paper from any computer with Internet access:

• W/CDC Eastside Technology Hub
  11148 Harper Avenue

• U-SNAP-BAC
  14901 E. Warren | 313.640.1100

• Mack ALIVE
  3746 Fisher Street | 313.824.3900

• Butzel Family Center
  773 Kercheval | 313.852.4745

• Detroit Public Library
  Call (313) 833-1000 for the nearest location

"The Pipeline" Newspaper

The first issue of “The Pipeline” appeared in Fall of 1984. Conceived and designed by a group of local residents who were founders of WCDC, “The Pipeline” has a mission to: educate, provoke, inform and entertain its readers – primarily residents of Detroit’s Eastside – as well as all WCDC paid members. Articles and features appearing in the Pipeline will focus on issues pertinent to the Eastside, in ways that the major media ignores or is unaware of. “The Pipeline” always publishes the WCDC Board of Directors editorial perspective on various issues; and equally important, “The Pipeline” serves as a vehicle for guest editorials and articles.

The Pipeline is a free newspaper. Therefore, the number of issues WCDC can publish each year is directly tied to the resources available. But WCDC’s publishes at least quarterly, if not more frequently.

The Pipeline also sells advertising space to local businesses, institutions and service providers; our policy is never to dedicate more than 50% of the total paper to advertising. The Pipeline will also sell political advertising when appropriate, as long as purchasers understand that that publishing a political ad in no way constitutes an endorsement of a candidate or a ballot issue. Click here for a copy of an advertising contract, that also includes ad rates and a publication schedule.

• Pipeline Ad Form

• Winter 2009-2010

• Spring 2009

• Fall 2008

• Spring 2007

Detroit Grosse Pointe Collaborative

WCDC is one of the founding partners of this consortium of about 20 Eastside community development organizations.

The mission of the Detroit-Grosse Pointe Collaborative is to create ongoing relationships between residents on the eastside of the city of Detroit and Grosse Pointe communities. It is our hope that the partnerships will result in the easing of both physical and social barriers between the two communities. The DGPC's mission is implemented through it core programs of Youth, Arts & Recreation; Neighborhood Organizing & Housing Development; and Business Organizing & Commercial Development.

To read archived issues of the DGPC newsletter and local news articles

The Conner Creek Greenway Project

DECC’s premiere project, this is a planned-and-partially-constructed 9 mile long shared use path that stretches along Conner from Eight Mile to the Detroit River. WCDC is the host for the office of the Conner Creek Greenway.

Project GROW

Project G.R.O.W. is a 3-year initiative to nurture community farming and development of food related businesses on the Eastside of Detroit and Highland Park. The project is sponsored by Warren/Conner Development Coalition, Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency, and MSU Extension Wayne County. Residents of Highland Park and the East Side of Detroit are eligible to apply for G.R.O.W.

Participants in G.R.O.W. receive technical assistance and are required to participate in education classes
designed to support the development of their food business. Project G.R.O.W. also provides Entrepreneur Mini-Grants, an opportunity to receive supplies valued at up to $200 to pursue a food related business venture. These supplies must be used for entrepreneurial projects such as participating in a farmer’s market, developing a food product, or increasing a garden’s yield or crop diversity for sale. Individuals must complete and submit the mini-grant application for consideration.

The Garden Resource Program Collaborative works in partnership with G.R.O.W. to provide G.R.O.W. participants resources, education and connections within the existing urban gardening community in Detroit, Highland Park and Hamtramck. Participants in G.R.O.W. are required to submit a Garden Resource Program application.

Project GROW is the sponsor of the East English Village Farmers Market.
Click here for market flyer!

Last year G.R.O.W. announced the opening of a new neighborhood farmers market, the East Warren Avenue Farmers Market (EWAFM). The market was a huge success; our vendors saw a total of 2,650 shoppers throughout the 2008 esason! The EWAFM will open again in July 2009. It is located on the corner of East Warren and Bishop between Outer Drive and Cadieux. EWAFM supports our local food economy by featuring produce grown only in Michigan. Artisans are alo able to vend if their art is locally crafted. All vendors are qequired to submit a vendor application

Eastside Technology Hub

Partners: University of Michigan School of Public Health, IBM Corporation

W/CDC's Role: Host and Coordinator of Eastside Technoloby Hub

Funder: University of Michigan, Kellogg Foundation, IBM Corporation

Goals & Activities: A 24-station state-of-the-art computer and video conferencing center, intended to build local capacity by providing technology access and information to local residents, organizations and businesses, with special focus on the families of the 200-plus Head Start Children. W/CDC also plans to work with local partners to create a data warehouse providing access to a variety of data sets for community problem solving, including crime data, school data, property data and health data.