There are more than 34,000 homeless people in Southeast Michigan. To help end local homelessness, Grace Centers of Hope in Pontiac, Michigan, has weaved together supportive services, safe and affordable housing, and neighborhood revitalization efforts to create “Little Grace Village.” Once a blighted neighborhood, this area is now a “community of hope” thanks in part
Read More

What car did you first learn how to drive? Or ride in the back seat on a road trip that still brings back memories? Or was the first one you bought on your own? Or wish you hadn’t sold or wrecked? Or hope that you’ll own someday? Few things in life create as strong an
Read More

Stefanie Thornton is the Senior Manager-Talent Acquisition at FCA US LLC. The automotive industry is also cool.   Where else can you see the product of your work sitting in front of you every day while waiting in line at the Starbucks drive-thru? It’s just cool. The really cool part of all those gorgeous Jeep®,
Read More

These hotels have no complaints about bugs – in fact, they can’t get enough. To celebrate Earth Day this year, we hosted the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) and about 20 students from two Michigan high schools to build “bug hotels.” The hotels – crafted from pine cones, tree bark, bamboo canes and paper tubes –
Read More

The old saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. Unfortunately, Carlton Honey did not have a village growing up. His father worked four jobs and his mother was quite ill, and he made some poor decisions. A pastor and father to three now, Carlton spends his spare time building a village around
Read More

Teresa Thiele is the Head of Talent Acquisition for NAFTA and Co-Chairwoman of the Women’s Alliance at FCA US LLC. In Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay “A Room of One’s Own,” she wrote: “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” History shows that innovations of the future can be born from experiences of the past.
Read More

Approximately 300 FCA US employees listened to an uplifting presentation by Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and author of the book “Know Your Value,” on March 8 to commemorate International Women’s Day. At the event, sponsored by the Women’s Alliance at FCA US LLC, Brzezinski offered her views on women and leadership
Read More