January 24, 2025 • 31 mins
MONIQUE DISCUSSES THE MANY SERVICES MATRIX PROVIDES FROM BIRTH TO SENIORS INCLUDING HEAD START, FOOD DISTRIBUTION TUESDAYS, HEALTH CARE, HIV PREVENTION AND MORE.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Light Up the D, a focus on what's
happening in our community from the people who make it happen.
Here's your host, iHeartMedia Detroit Market President Colleen Grant.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning and welcome to another episode of Light Up
the D I'm your host, Colleen Grant, and sure appreciate
you being with us today. I have a wonderful guest
who does so many things to help the community with
me today. It's Monique Phillips. She joined Matrix Human Services
in March twenty twenty three as its VP of Development
and Marketing, where she leads the agency's fundraising and marketing efforts.
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Monique joined Matrix Human Services after spending five years working
in the Mayor's office, where she supported the city's fundraising
efforts to advance mayoral priorities in the areas of workforce development, neighborhoods,
economic development, civil rights, and more. You can find Matrix
Human Services at Matrix human Services dot org. Thank you
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Monique for joining us today. Look forward to talking to
you about all the wonderful things that Matrix does.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Absolutely, thank you so much for having me, Colin, it's
really your pleasure.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, let's get right to it. Why don't we give
everybody an understanding of what Matrix Human Service does in
our community.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Absolutely. First of all, Make to Semus Services has been
around for almost one hundred and twenty years. So we're
founded in nineteen o six as the League of Catholic Women.
We have since evolved to become Matrix Seemous Services, and
we are really proud to be one of the largest
nonprofits within the City of Detroit that services the largest
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number of Detroiters. So we're just excited to be here
and to just really spread the word about what it
is that we do. It's unbelievable to me when I
joined the organization that I found that many people didn't
know who we were and that we existed. And so
part of my motivation for joining the organization was again
to spread the great word about the impact that the
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organization has within the community. So, first and foremost, we
are the city of Detroit's largest head Start provider. We
are super excited about that fact. And speaking of Headstart,
many people think that we are largely ahead Start organization,
and while that is predominantly the brand and butter of
our organization, there are so many other wonderful programs and
services that we offer. So our programs fall within three
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main categories, and that's community supports, education, and health. So
our head Start program is our education pillar, and then
we have Health, which is our HIV prevention priority area.
And then we have Community Supports, which consists of adult services,
youth services, senior services, and our illustrious Matrix Center Will
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all of these great and wonderful programs and services operate
out of and also we provide a host of basic needs,
supportive and wrap around supports to those in need as well.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Wow, I mean you know that you were saying support,
community supports, communities. Yeah, and you named a whole bunch
of things just under that one category alone, not to
mention the two other categories that you named as your
The found how many people do you serve every week
every month?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So on average, Major Serment Services impacts about twenty thousand
individuals annually. My cross programs. Okay, one of the wonderful
things about the work that we do is the fact
that we touch so many lives in our Community Supports programs.
That's really what I enjoy talking about when I'm out
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in the community. So let people know about the wonderful
services that we offer. So we operate a youth and
adult workforce development program. So we are one of the
service providers for the Skills for Life program, which is
responsible for upskilling and reskilling detroiters so that they can
gain the skills and the tools and the resources and
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the education that they need so that they can go
on to earn and maintain high quality, well paying jobs.
Our workforce development program has recently evolved into our Skills
to Build program. We are really at a precipice within
the agency right now with that program as well as
within the other areas of the program. So we have
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a new CEO. Her name is Sara Allen Petway. She
joined the organization a couple of years ago as well,
almost two years ago. And then we have a new COO,
Nicole Pilgrim, who was once our VP of HR. And
then we have a new director of his start, which
is doctor Bobby Goodrum. And so we are at an
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incredible juncture within the organization's history. We're just really proud
of the evolution that we're taking the organization in and
how we will continue to affect even moral lives in
the city of Detroit and beyond.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Who are some of the individuals that are served by
the agency, like what's their background and why do they
come to Matrix for support.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So the overwhelming majority of those that are served by
Matrix Semi services are a low income, marginalized, underserved populations.
Our organization sorry individuals who live underneath the poverty threshold.
These are individuals who are in need of a hand
up and not a handout. And that's what we really
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pride ourselves in. And so our tagline is from birth
to senior. And so whether you are you know, a
young person in need of you know, getting a head
start in light through our head Start program, and you
are a parent who's in need of affordable or free headstart,
high quality heads Start programming, you can enroll within our
head Start program and get your child's education off to
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a wonderful start. All the way to our senior services programs,
where we want to ensure that Detroiter is older. Our
older Detroiters have an opportunity to age in place and
to you know, be happy and to be comfortable with
where they are. And so we offer a number of
services to our services. So if you need someone to
come out and help you to clean your home, if
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you need minor repairs to your home, if you need
transportation to your doctor's appointments, or even to a recreational activity.
If you want to hang out with your fellow peers.
You know, we can go play Bengal. You know, we
go to a lot of different places. We just want
to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to live the
life that they want to live and take advantage of
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Detroit's renaissance that we're currently in giving them the tools
that they need to be successful in that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So you had said that it's one of the largest
organizations doing this kind of service in the Detroit area, right,
What do you think is sets Matrix apart from other
organizations who do similar kind of work.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I think what sets Matrix apart is the fact that
we are Our greatest strength is our access to people,
and so we really touch everyone. So we don't have
a singular demographic that we focus on because everybody is
a priority to us, and so I would say that
that would be our greatest strength. No one has turned
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away if you are need those services, and within our
adult services up Pillar, we offer housing services as well.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention that and
so those who are struggling with homelessness or housing instability,
if you are in need of rent and utility support,
if you are in need of home buyers counseling, if
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you need support with acquiring your home back from the
land bank. We have programs and we have tools, and
we have resources that will allow you to gain stability
so that you can move on into our other programs
and we can mitigate and remove those barriers that one
is experiencing so that they can really, like I said,
gain the tools, gain the skills, gain the education that
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is required to get on the pathway toward a better life.
If you need a high school diploma, if you need
to complete your GED, if you want to gain certifications
across various manufacturing fields. As a part of our new
workforce development program, we've introduced ev tech and clean energy,
and so we are delving into new and innovative space
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so that we can continue to keep up with what
the latest trends are and work force development and making
sure that all Detroiters who are in need and desire
a wonderful opportunity to make a contribution significant contribution to
their families, to their communities, to the city and to
the state can come to make the sumous services. Our
drawers are always open and we will get you what
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you need so that you can really get on the
right track and thrive in your life.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So when we talk about I mean the volume of
services that you provide, and you talk about from birth
to the folks that are seniors, and it's the scope
is startling on the things that you guys are really
able to do to help people. And then we talk
about you know when people come to you, do they
come to one location or their multiple locations? How do
they find you?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Great question. So our main hub is called the Matrix
Center and that is on East McNichols and so that
is predominantly where the vast majority of our services occur.
Our head Start program, we have fourteen locations across the
city of Detroit as well as CCP locations across the
city of Detroit as well, and so yes, that's where
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our footprint is. As far as our health programs are concerned,
they operate out of our fron Deal location and so
we do have a metro Detroit footprint as well, and
we're just looking to scale and touch more lives.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Wow, what are you most proud of when it comes
to your work at Matrix each day, what do keeps
you up at night? What keeps you motivated?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
What keeps me up at night and what keeps me
motivated is learning about new needs that we have every day. Yeah,
finding out, coming up with solutions, having conversations, being creative
about how we go about meeting that particular need, which
we call priorities at our organization. So what I would
say is right now, what is keeping me up at
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night is continuing to find resources for our workforce development program.
One huge win that we just secured is us receiving
our largest workforce philanthropic gift in the organization's history. Graduation
is thank you, a four hundred thousand dollars contribution from
GM Corporate Philanthropy to support the build up of our
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eed tech and clean Energy program. And so we are
extremely proud about that, but we need more. Right what
I am seeking to do is to have conversations with
our stakeholders in the community, so that includes our local politicians,
that includes our state politicians as well, and continue to
advocate and to lobby for the resources and supports that
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we need, especially considering the work that we does that
we do completely aligned with the initiatives of the state
and the city government as well.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah. I mean they're problem solvers and you're problem solvers too,
so you're both kind of in the same path to
get those things righted exactly. So, when you think about
the partnership that you're trying to create with politicians, whether
it's state, local, or other, what are other community agencies
that you have to partner with to get things done
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that you do? I mean, do you work with other
agencies or do you do everything yourself in kind of
your own verticals.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
There are a number of organizations that make to SIMMER
Services partners with and that we have to partner with
in order to make our mission come true. I don't
believe that anyone organization who has gone on to grow
and scale and become successful was able to do that
in a silo. There are, like I said, a number
of community organizations that we partner with, the Landbank being
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one of them, right, because if one of our priorities
is to ensure that folks can reclaim their homes from
the landbank, there are certain criteria that they have to meet,
not only with Matrix, but on the land Bank side
as well, and so in terms of what they receive
from us, they receive the financial training, the financial literacy,
receive us supports financially to help them reclaim their home
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and so on and so forth. And we partner with
the LAMD Bank to let them know that this person
is deserving of their home back, and you know, we're
working with them so that they can get their homes
back because the land bank doesn't want all those homes.
They want those homes to be in possession of individuals
who are going to take care of the homes and
just be good residents all around. And so that's what
we help people do. I'm really proud to state that
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we have newly formed a partnership with the be Well
Medical Clinic. As of last summer, we opened our Osborne
Family Health Clinic and it's a medical practice where folks
in the community can come and receive family medical practice services.
And so we've partnered with a number of physicians and
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a pediatrician. We've just been out in the community pounding
the pavement. The facility sits on the campus of the
Matrix Center, which is amazing and highly convenient, and so
it is a health desert over there, and so we
have really been fortunate to partner with the Biba Medical
Clinic to be able to come into the four two
five neighborhood and provide those extremely high quality, affordable services
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to our residents in that area.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
So there are some people who haven't probably heard the
concept of health desert. Can you explain what that means?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yes, a health desert is essentially an area or a
community that is predominantly disenfranchised that has a vacancy of
high quality medical facilities that people can go into at
any time and receive good quality care, access to equitable care.
That's essentially you know what a health desert is. There
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are not many facilities in that area, and we've done
our homework on that and we were just really proud
to bring that kind of facility and that level of
care to the people in that area who absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, congratulations on that partnership with be Well Medical Clinic. Yeah,
I mean that's having health, access to health services and
a close proximity to where you are is absolutely crucial
to almost everything else that happens in your life.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And I will also be remiss if I didn't mention
in terms of you know, partnerships. You know, our funders,
you know, are probably our most significant partners because without them,
our work is impossible. That not only goes for our
philanthropic partners, but our individual partners as well. And so
that is, you know, something that also keeps me up
and not you know, going back to your earlier question
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is understanding who can I reach out to today that
can help me make an impact tomorrow? Right? What I
do is I work to build relationships, because that's what
my line of work is all about, is building those
meaningful relationships. Telling your story building a case, I'm talking
about the people that you impact and how the services
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and programs that you offer not only impacts that individual person,
but it trickles now to their entire family. That requires
bringing them out to our facilities to show them, you know,
face to face the work that it is that we do.
It requires you partnering with them and letting them know
that you would be good stores of their investment. Storytelling
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is really what it boils down to. And so there's
never a shortage unfortunately of people that need to be
served of programs and wrap around and support of services
that people need. I mean that is unfortunate, and so
you know, I do have to work around the clock
essentially to build new relationships and to keep the relationships
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that I have intact because we need their support, right And.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Like you said, it's you build the relationship and you
show them the value of what you're doing to help
the community. And that's that's everything, because everybody has a
lot of choices and where do you where do you
put your investment to help organizations? And I think you
know one of the things that you said that is
moving that helping people from birth to senior. I think
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about when you think of somebody who needs help, quite
often it's you know, they not only have a child
that you know they're supporting, or they have the parent
that they're supporting too. So you know, and so there's
like this bookend, you know, surrounding the person of challenges
across scope of ages. How many people are not not
even how many people, But do you often see that
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as the case is that I'm not only helping this person,
but I'm helping other members in their family.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Absolutely, we're all about barrier mitigation. And so as a
part of our intake process, when you reach out to
us and you let us know what's going on, we
actually sit down and we have a conversation with you,
and because we want to understand the full scope of
needs that you have, because oftentimes there's not just one
issue that you need help with solving, right, and so
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if you're in need of child here, then more than
likely you're also in need of perhaps transportation services, more
than likely you're in need of workforce services, more than
likely you're in need of, you know, some sort of
housing supports. And so once you help that individual, like
I said, you are impacting everyone else that is influenced
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by that person that you're helping. It's just really important
to understand the full scope of a person's background so
that we can ensure that we're providing the right sorts
of supports and comprehensive support so that you know, a
person can start our program and finish our program successfully
and meeting those targets, meeting those metrics, meeting those outcomes
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that they've set for themselves that we've allowed them to
achieve for themselves, and then we monitor their progress once
they've left our program to ensure that they remain on
the right track.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
If you're just joining us today, our guest is Monique Phillips.
She's the VP of Development Marketing at Matrix Human Services. Monique,
one of the things you brought up you've brought up
was volunteers and how many volunteers do you guys work with?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Were with approximately five hundred volunteers annually, and that consists
of our corporate volunteers. So oftentimes companies that partner with
us who sparntor our work, they want to do more
and give us money, and we want to have a
deeper relationship than that. We want to have them volunteer
with us. We want to have them come out and
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witness the work that we do. One of our more
popular volunteer opportunities is our Food Tuesday distribution program. Talking
about partnerships, Forgotten Harvest is one of our largest partners
and so we're just so thankful for our long lasting
partnership with Forgotten Harvests. Every Tuesday, second Tuesday and Thursday
of the month, we host a food Tuesday distribution program
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and that happens right outside of our Matrix Center and
cars line up and the line is off and down
grash it and folks are able to pull up and
to get their cars and their trunks loaded with boxes
of food. Contact us at Major Stumuth Services dot org
to find out more about the program. So we're just
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really proud about that.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I mean that's Tuesdays and Thursdays, second Tuesday and Thursday
every month. Yes, it's really something. Talk about some of
the events that you do in the community. I know
that you know there are things that people can go
to where they can support your organization plus have a
good time. What do you have coming up in the new.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Year, Yes, so we are very excited about all the
wonderful things that we have planned in the new year.
Our first major event is our signature event, which is
called Mission Breakfast and that's taking place on April the
eighth of twenty twenty five at Plum Hollow Country Club
And so that is a ticketed event and a sponsored event,
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but it's an opportunity for individuals to come out and
to witness the firsthand the impact that Matrix SUMAN Services
had had on the community the year prior to and
so we have lots of full surprises in store for that.
So log onto Major Summit Services dot org and you
can learn more about our upcoming Mission Breakfast and you
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can see previous year's photos and videos from prior events.
It's really an impactful, impactful breakfast and we just appreciate
all of the love and support that we receive from
the community. For that, we typically raise around one hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Wow, that's awesome per year for.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The organization, which goes to support all of our programs
and services. After that, we have our annual three one
three in the D event, So this would be the
twelfth annual three one three in the D event. We're
super excited.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
That is a very good one. So it's a rooftop
celebration and there's no formal programming associated with three onout
three and the D, which is what a lot of
people appreciate. You just come to the events on the
rooftop at three fifty tiers and we just have a
good time and we have an awesome raffle with amazing gifts,
and again it's another fundraiser that goes towards supporting our
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Matrix Center. So just looking forward to another wonderful event
and just you know, adding new and new fun and
creative elements to just make it even bigger and better
than what it was the year before. Again, our fundraising
target is a minimum of one hundred thousand dollars and
it is always a sold out event. You know, we
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have DJs, we have caricature artists, we have a wonderful
catered food, open bar. It's just a fun time that
allows us to come together and to support our constituents
in that way. Later in the year we have our
Thought Leaders Event Panel event. We just had our second
annual Thought Leaders Panel Event in November of twenty twenty four,
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so more to come on that, but that is an
event where we bring together different experts and stakeholders and
a particular area of focus that really showcases the impact
of the work that Matrix has within the community within
specific focus area. Last year we focused on workforce. In
the first year we focus on housing.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And where can people find out about all these wonderful.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Events major extument services dot org and click contact us
and someone will respond to you right.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Away, and that's where you can go. If you want
to volunteer as well too, Yes, or donate or donate.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Definitely donate and there's a volunteer button that you can
click on and express your interests as well. So whether
you are a company seeking to mobilize your employees to
do something good in the community. There are a plethora
of volunteer opportunities available, not just with food Tuesday distribution,
but with cross programs. There's just so many things that
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you can do to be involved with us.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Talk to us a little bit about your HIV prevention.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah, focus area. Absolutely, so we are evolving and we're
really pleased about that. And so for a long time,
our primary emphasis was just on treating individuals who were
either at risk of contracting HIV or who were already
exposed to HIV. And so now we're expanded beyond that
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because thankfully we are in a new space and area
in time now where HIV is no longer considered a
virus that you know, it's not a death sentence anymore.
And so that was part of the motivation for joining
forces with a be Well Medical Clinic, so that we
can expand the health portfolio of the you know, the
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services that we provide in that service area. And so yes,
we continue to provide supports to those who are at
risk of contracting HIV or who are already exposed to
the virus. And you can go to our website and
click on the community health tab and you can learn
more about those programs and how you can be involved
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if you are impacted, if you know someone who is so.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You said earlier that you have a new president and CEO,
Starr Alan Petway, and but you also mentioned a couple
of other team members who are new too. And what
do you guys look at your like your vision for
the organization, what stars vision for the organization and the
value of her leadership brings to your future.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I would say that Star's number one priority is to
ensure the fiscal solvency of the organization for the next
one hundred and twenty years. We want to become a
household name, a household brand beyond the city of Detroit
and the Metro Detroit limits. We seek to have a
presence in every part of the city of Detroit, and
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we've already decided to have those conversations in terms of
what that could look like. We would like for our
programs and services to be replicated, you know, to be
the model, the standard of excellence for how human services
are deployed amongst vulnerable populations. We are an organization and
with Stars leadership, we are an organization where we take
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accountability for the things that go well, and we also
take accountability for the things that don't go well. We
get into the room, we don't spend a lot of
time focusing on the problems. We spend a majority of
our time focusing on solutions. And I really appreciate and
value that in terms of Stars leadership, you know, making
sure that there are metrics of success that everyone within
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the organization, no matter if you are a custodian or
if you are you know, a security guard, or if
you are a head start teacher, or if you're a director,
or if you're in senior leadership, everyone has metrics that
they should strive to achieve because all of our collective
efforts come together to serve the greater good, and that
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is the services that we provide to our constituents. So
I really appreciate and value that about Stars leadership. She's fair,
she's present, and I really do believe that she has
what it takes. She has what this organization is need
of right now, and we're just super excited to see
what what she comes up with for the next several
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years and beyond.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I was going to say, you guys, you seem really
excited about your organization. You seem really really excited about
your organization.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I am. I am, you know, coming from where I've
come from in the past, and you know, joining major
steam and services. This is really where I feel like
I'm supposed to be at in my career right now.
A Star is giving me an opportunity to really quote
unquote flex my muscle, to really show what I can
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do and what I can bring to the organization, and
everybody who's in leadership across the organization. She wants to
give you a chance to show what you can do
and how you can elevate the organization. There are a
number of surprises that we have in sore for this
year that we that I'm not at liberty to discuss
right now. We really just want people to stay in
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tuned with the work that it is that we're doing.
We are just so out of the fact that we
have the largest footprint within the city of Detroit, who
are servicing the largest number of detroit My goal is
to ensure that everyone is aware of the services that
we provide and make sure that everyone knows that there
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is a role that you can play to help lift
up Detroiters in need, because there are lots of Detroiters
who want to be a part of what's going on.
They want to help. They just need access to opportunity.
And if you call us, if you email us, if
you contact us, we will respond and we will do
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our due diligence and work our hardest to ensure that
we get you on the right path so that you
can earn a good living for yourself and for your family.
And when you do that, you stabilize communities. And once
you stabilize communities, you help your city. Once you help
your city, guess what, you've officially become a part of
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the resurgence. And that's what we want everyone to have
equal access to opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, it's really the resurgence of the human you know,
the resurgence of their spirit, of their livelihood, of their
well being, of their peace, everything, all the things that
are really the foundation of the community being built up
and growing. Those are the kinds of things that it
seems like you really focus.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
On exactly exactly. And there's something else I want to
mention as well. When we talk about partnerships, there's so many.
One of the more significant partnerships that we are extremely
proud of is our partnership with Senator Debbie Stabbin. Now
she in her office a supported matrix with a two
million dollar federal investment into the Matrix Center, and we
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use that funding to transform what's called Armadar Area, and
so that area has been transformed into a state of
the art business incubator space.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
And so it's currently under construction, and construction is scheduled
to be completed by the end of the spring, and
so progress is coming along amazingly. We had a huge
kickoff or a groundbreaking event in February of last year
to announce the award and to give folks a tour
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of the spaces to be renovated. It was an amazing event.
Fox two came out and did a wonderful story. Mayor
Duggan came out and provided remarks in support of the project,
as well as Scott Benson, who has an office in
the Matrix Center, and representatives from Senator Sabanaw's office came
by as well. And so again I just want to
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emphasize the litany of partnerships, the scope of partnerships that
are required to make the work possible and as a result,
of that investment. We are leveraging that to raise funds
to renovate the entirety of the Matrix Center, which is
sixty thousand square feet. Wow, that we acquired for one
dollar in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Wow, just a buck what it costs your renovates sixty
thousand square feet exact law exactly. You know.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
That is another initiative that keeps me up at night,
you know, undergoing this capital campaign because it's gonna cost
a lot of money to renovate that that entire building.
We want the community to have a hub within it
that they can be product, that members of that community
can be prouduct, that they can come in and just
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look around and say, Wow, they really did all of
this for us, because it's what they deserve. And so
the Matrice Center is destined to be a one stop
shop for all needs of everyone in that community.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I love it. Our guest today has pad Monique Phillips.
She's the VP of Development and Marketing at Matrix Human Services.
Thanks for everything you're doing in the community. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
It's my pleasure and I cann't see myself doing anything else,
and I'm just thankful to be here to talk about
the good word of Matrix, though I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
If you need more information, please visit Matrix human Services
dot org. Thanks again for joining us. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
This has been light Up the D a community affairs
program from iHeartMedia Detroit. If your organization would like to
get on the program, email Colleen Grant at iHeartMedia dot com.
Here are all episodes on this station's podcast page.
Welcome to Light Up the D, a focus on what's
happening in our community from the people who make it happen.
Here's your host, iHeartMedia Detroit Market President Colleen Grant.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning and welcome to another episode of Light Up
the D I'm your host, Colleen Grant, and sure appreciate
you being with us today. I have a wonderful guest
who does so many things to help the community with
me today. It's Monique Phillips. She joined Matrix Human Services
in March twenty twenty three as its VP of Development
and Marketing, where she leads the agency's fundraising and marketing efforts.
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Monique joined Matrix Human Services after spending five years working
in the Mayor's office, where she supported the city's fundraising
efforts to advance mayoral priorities in the areas of workforce development, neighborhoods,
economic development, civil rights, and more. You can find Matrix
Human Services at Matrix human Services dot org. Thank you
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Monique for joining us today. Look forward to talking to
you about all the wonderful things that Matrix does.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Absolutely, thank you so much for having me, Colin, it's
really your pleasure.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, let's get right to it. Why don't we give
everybody an understanding of what Matrix Human Service does in
our community.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Absolutely. First of all, Make to Semus Services has been
around for almost one hundred and twenty years. So we're
founded in nineteen o six as the League of Catholic Women.
We have since evolved to become Matrix Seemous Services, and
we are really proud to be one of the largest
nonprofits within the City of Detroit that services the largest
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number of Detroiters. So we're just excited to be here
and to just really spread the word about what it
is that we do. It's unbelievable to me when I
joined the organization that I found that many people didn't
know who we were and that we existed. And so
part of my motivation for joining the organization was again
to spread the great word about the impact that the
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organization has within the community. So, first and foremost, we
are the city of Detroit's largest head Start provider. We
are super excited about that fact. And speaking of Headstart,
many people think that we are largely ahead Start organization,
and while that is predominantly the brand and butter of
our organization, there are so many other wonderful programs and
services that we offer. So our programs fall within three
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main categories, and that's community supports, education, and health. So
our head Start program is our education pillar, and then
we have Health, which is our HIV prevention priority area.
And then we have Community Supports, which consists of adult services,
youth services, senior services, and our illustrious Matrix Center Will
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all of these great and wonderful programs and services operate
out of and also we provide a host of basic needs,
supportive and wrap around supports to those in need as well.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Wow, I mean you know that you were saying support,
community supports, communities. Yeah, and you named a whole bunch
of things just under that one category alone, not to
mention the two other categories that you named as your
The found how many people do you serve every week
every month?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So on average, Major Serment Services impacts about twenty thousand
individuals annually. My cross programs. Okay, one of the wonderful
things about the work that we do is the fact
that we touch so many lives in our Community Supports programs.
That's really what I enjoy talking about when I'm out
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in the community. So let people know about the wonderful
services that we offer. So we operate a youth and
adult workforce development program. So we are one of the
service providers for the Skills for Life program, which is
responsible for upskilling and reskilling detroiters so that they can
gain the skills and the tools and the resources and
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the education that they need so that they can go
on to earn and maintain high quality, well paying jobs.
Our workforce development program has recently evolved into our Skills
to Build program. We are really at a precipice within
the agency right now with that program as well as
within the other areas of the program. So we have
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a new CEO. Her name is Sara Allen Petway. She
joined the organization a couple of years ago as well,
almost two years ago. And then we have a new COO,
Nicole Pilgrim, who was once our VP of HR. And
then we have a new director of his start, which
is doctor Bobby Goodrum. And so we are at an
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incredible juncture within the organization's history. We're just really proud
of the evolution that we're taking the organization in and
how we will continue to affect even moral lives in
the city of Detroit and beyond.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Who are some of the individuals that are served by
the agency, like what's their background and why do they
come to Matrix for support.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So the overwhelming majority of those that are served by
Matrix Semi services are a low income, marginalized, underserved populations.
Our organization sorry individuals who live underneath the poverty threshold.
These are individuals who are in need of a hand
up and not a handout. And that's what we really
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pride ourselves in. And so our tagline is from birth
to senior. And so whether you are you know, a
young person in need of you know, getting a head
start in light through our head Start program, and you
are a parent who's in need of affordable or free headstart,
high quality heads Start programming, you can enroll within our
head Start program and get your child's education off to
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a wonderful start. All the way to our senior services programs,
where we want to ensure that Detroiter is older. Our
older Detroiters have an opportunity to age in place and
to you know, be happy and to be comfortable with
where they are. And so we offer a number of
services to our services. So if you need someone to
come out and help you to clean your home, if
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you need minor repairs to your home, if you need
transportation to your doctor's appointments, or even to a recreational activity.
If you want to hang out with your fellow peers.
You know, we can go play Bengal. You know, we
go to a lot of different places. We just want
to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to live the
life that they want to live and take advantage of
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Detroit's renaissance that we're currently in giving them the tools
that they need to be successful in that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So you had said that it's one of the largest
organizations doing this kind of service in the Detroit area, right,
What do you think is sets Matrix apart from other
organizations who do similar kind of work.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I think what sets Matrix apart is the fact that
we are Our greatest strength is our access to people,
and so we really touch everyone. So we don't have
a singular demographic that we focus on because everybody is
a priority to us, and so I would say that
that would be our greatest strength. No one has turned
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away if you are need those services, and within our
adult services up Pillar, we offer housing services as well.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention that and
so those who are struggling with homelessness or housing instability,
if you are in need of rent and utility support,
if you are in need of home buyers counseling, if
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you need support with acquiring your home back from the
land bank. We have programs and we have tools, and
we have resources that will allow you to gain stability
so that you can move on into our other programs
and we can mitigate and remove those barriers that one
is experiencing so that they can really, like I said,
gain the tools, gain the skills, gain the education that
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is required to get on the pathway toward a better life.
If you need a high school diploma, if you need
to complete your GED, if you want to gain certifications
across various manufacturing fields. As a part of our new
workforce development program, we've introduced ev tech and clean energy,
and so we are delving into new and innovative space
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so that we can continue to keep up with what
the latest trends are and work force development and making
sure that all Detroiters who are in need and desire
a wonderful opportunity to make a contribution significant contribution to
their families, to their communities, to the city and to
the state can come to make the sumous services. Our
drawers are always open and we will get you what
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you need so that you can really get on the
right track and thrive in your life.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So when we talk about I mean the volume of
services that you provide, and you talk about from birth
to the folks that are seniors, and it's the scope
is startling on the things that you guys are really
able to do to help people. And then we talk
about you know when people come to you, do they
come to one location or their multiple locations? How do
they find you?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Great question. So our main hub is called the Matrix
Center and that is on East McNichols and so that
is predominantly where the vast majority of our services occur.
Our head Start program, we have fourteen locations across the
city of Detroit as well as CCP locations across the
city of Detroit as well, and so yes, that's where
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our footprint is. As far as our health programs are concerned,
they operate out of our fron Deal location and so
we do have a metro Detroit footprint as well, and
we're just looking to scale and touch more lives.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Wow, what are you most proud of when it comes
to your work at Matrix each day, what do keeps
you up at night? What keeps you motivated?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
What keeps me up at night and what keeps me
motivated is learning about new needs that we have every day. Yeah,
finding out, coming up with solutions, having conversations, being creative
about how we go about meeting that particular need, which
we call priorities at our organization. So what I would
say is right now, what is keeping me up at
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night is continuing to find resources for our workforce development program.
One huge win that we just secured is us receiving
our largest workforce philanthropic gift in the organization's history. Graduation
is thank you, a four hundred thousand dollars contribution from
GM Corporate Philanthropy to support the build up of our
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eed tech and clean Energy program. And so we are
extremely proud about that, but we need more. Right what
I am seeking to do is to have conversations with
our stakeholders in the community, so that includes our local politicians,
that includes our state politicians as well, and continue to
advocate and to lobby for the resources and supports that
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we need, especially considering the work that we does that
we do completely aligned with the initiatives of the state
and the city government as well.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah. I mean they're problem solvers and you're problem solvers too,
so you're both kind of in the same path to
get those things righted exactly. So, when you think about
the partnership that you're trying to create with politicians, whether
it's state, local, or other, what are other community agencies
that you have to partner with to get things done
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that you do? I mean, do you work with other
agencies or do you do everything yourself in kind of
your own verticals.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
There are a number of organizations that make to SIMMER
Services partners with and that we have to partner with
in order to make our mission come true. I don't
believe that anyone organization who has gone on to grow
and scale and become successful was able to do that
in a silo. There are, like I said, a number
of community organizations that we partner with, the Landbank being
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one of them, right, because if one of our priorities
is to ensure that folks can reclaim their homes from
the landbank, there are certain criteria that they have to meet,
not only with Matrix, but on the land Bank side
as well, and so in terms of what they receive
from us, they receive the financial training, the financial literacy,
receive us supports financially to help them reclaim their home
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and so on and so forth. And we partner with
the LAMD Bank to let them know that this person
is deserving of their home back, and you know, we're
working with them so that they can get their homes
back because the land bank doesn't want all those homes.
They want those homes to be in possession of individuals
who are going to take care of the homes and
just be good residents all around. And so that's what
we help people do. I'm really proud to state that
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we have newly formed a partnership with the be Well
Medical Clinic. As of last summer, we opened our Osborne
Family Health Clinic and it's a medical practice where folks
in the community can come and receive family medical practice services.
And so we've partnered with a number of physicians and
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a pediatrician. We've just been out in the community pounding
the pavement. The facility sits on the campus of the
Matrix Center, which is amazing and highly convenient, and so
it is a health desert over there, and so we
have really been fortunate to partner with the Biba Medical
Clinic to be able to come into the four two
five neighborhood and provide those extremely high quality, affordable services
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to our residents in that area.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
So there are some people who haven't probably heard the
concept of health desert. Can you explain what that means?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yes, a health desert is essentially an area or a
community that is predominantly disenfranchised that has a vacancy of
high quality medical facilities that people can go into at
any time and receive good quality care, access to equitable care.
That's essentially you know what a health desert is. There
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are not many facilities in that area, and we've done
our homework on that and we were just really proud
to bring that kind of facility and that level of
care to the people in that area who absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, congratulations on that partnership with be Well Medical Clinic. Yeah,
I mean that's having health, access to health services and
a close proximity to where you are is absolutely crucial
to almost everything else that happens in your life.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And I will also be remiss if I didn't mention
in terms of you know, partnerships. You know, our funders,
you know, are probably our most significant partners because without them,
our work is impossible. That not only goes for our
philanthropic partners, but our individual partners as well. And so
that is, you know, something that also keeps me up
and not you know, going back to your earlier question
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is understanding who can I reach out to today that
can help me make an impact tomorrow? Right? What I
do is I work to build relationships, because that's what
my line of work is all about, is building those
meaningful relationships. Telling your story building a case, I'm talking
about the people that you impact and how the services
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and programs that you offer not only impacts that individual person,
but it trickles now to their entire family. That requires
bringing them out to our facilities to show them, you know,
face to face the work that it is that we do.
It requires you partnering with them and letting them know
that you would be good stores of their investment. Storytelling
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is really what it boils down to. And so there's
never a shortage unfortunately of people that need to be
served of programs and wrap around and support of services
that people need. I mean that is unfortunate, and so
you know, I do have to work around the clock
essentially to build new relationships and to keep the relationships
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that I have intact because we need their support, right And.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Like you said, it's you build the relationship and you
show them the value of what you're doing to help
the community. And that's that's everything, because everybody has a
lot of choices and where do you where do you
put your investment to help organizations? And I think you
know one of the things that you said that is
moving that helping people from birth to senior. I think
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about when you think of somebody who needs help, quite
often it's you know, they not only have a child
that you know they're supporting, or they have the parent
that they're supporting too. So you know, and so there's
like this bookend, you know, surrounding the person of challenges
across scope of ages. How many people are not not
even how many people, But do you often see that
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as the case is that I'm not only helping this person,
but I'm helping other members in their family.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Absolutely, we're all about barrier mitigation. And so as a
part of our intake process, when you reach out to
us and you let us know what's going on, we
actually sit down and we have a conversation with you,
and because we want to understand the full scope of
needs that you have, because oftentimes there's not just one
issue that you need help with solving, right, and so
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if you're in need of child here, then more than
likely you're also in need of perhaps transportation services, more
than likely you're in need of workforce services, more than
likely you're in need of, you know, some sort of
housing supports. And so once you help that individual, like
I said, you are impacting everyone else that is influenced
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by that person that you're helping. It's just really important
to understand the full scope of a person's background so
that we can ensure that we're providing the right sorts
of supports and comprehensive support so that you know, a
person can start our program and finish our program successfully
and meeting those targets, meeting those metrics, meeting those outcomes
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that they've set for themselves that we've allowed them to
achieve for themselves, and then we monitor their progress once
they've left our program to ensure that they remain on
the right track.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
If you're just joining us today, our guest is Monique Phillips.
She's the VP of Development Marketing at Matrix Human Services. Monique,
one of the things you brought up you've brought up
was volunteers and how many volunteers do you guys work with?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Were with approximately five hundred volunteers annually, and that consists
of our corporate volunteers. So oftentimes companies that partner with
us who sparntor our work, they want to do more
and give us money, and we want to have a
deeper relationship than that. We want to have them volunteer
with us. We want to have them come out and
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witness the work that we do. One of our more
popular volunteer opportunities is our Food Tuesday distribution program. Talking
about partnerships, Forgotten Harvest is one of our largest partners
and so we're just so thankful for our long lasting
partnership with Forgotten Harvests. Every Tuesday, second Tuesday and Thursday
of the month, we host a food Tuesday distribution program
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and that happens right outside of our Matrix Center and
cars line up and the line is off and down
grash it and folks are able to pull up and
to get their cars and their trunks loaded with boxes
of food. Contact us at Major Stumuth Services dot org
to find out more about the program. So we're just
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really proud about that.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I mean that's Tuesdays and Thursdays, second Tuesday and Thursday
every month. Yes, it's really something. Talk about some of
the events that you do in the community. I know
that you know there are things that people can go
to where they can support your organization plus have a
good time. What do you have coming up in the new.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Year, Yes, so we are very excited about all the
wonderful things that we have planned in the new year.
Our first major event is our signature event, which is
called Mission Breakfast and that's taking place on April the
eighth of twenty twenty five at Plum Hollow Country Club
And so that is a ticketed event and a sponsored event,
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but it's an opportunity for individuals to come out and
to witness the firsthand the impact that Matrix SUMAN Services
had had on the community the year prior to and
so we have lots of full surprises in store for that.
So log onto Major Summit Services dot org and you
can learn more about our upcoming Mission Breakfast and you
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can see previous year's photos and videos from prior events.
It's really an impactful, impactful breakfast and we just appreciate
all of the love and support that we receive from
the community. For that, we typically raise around one hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Wow, that's awesome per year for.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The organization, which goes to support all of our programs
and services. After that, we have our annual three one
three in the D event, So this would be the
twelfth annual three one three in the D event. We're
super excited.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
That is a very good one. So it's a rooftop
celebration and there's no formal programming associated with three onout
three and the D, which is what a lot of
people appreciate. You just come to the events on the
rooftop at three fifty tiers and we just have a
good time and we have an awesome raffle with amazing gifts,
and again it's another fundraiser that goes towards supporting our
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Matrix Center. So just looking forward to another wonderful event
and just you know, adding new and new fun and
creative elements to just make it even bigger and better
than what it was the year before. Again, our fundraising
target is a minimum of one hundred thousand dollars and
it is always a sold out event. You know, we
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have DJs, we have caricature artists, we have a wonderful
catered food, open bar. It's just a fun time that
allows us to come together and to support our constituents
in that way. Later in the year we have our
Thought Leaders Event Panel event. We just had our second
annual Thought Leaders Panel Event in November of twenty twenty four,
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so more to come on that, but that is an
event where we bring together different experts and stakeholders and
a particular area of focus that really showcases the impact
of the work that Matrix has within the community within
specific focus area. Last year we focused on workforce. In
the first year we focus on housing.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And where can people find out about all these wonderful.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Events major extument services dot org and click contact us
and someone will respond to you right.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Away, and that's where you can go. If you want
to volunteer as well too, Yes, or donate or donate.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Definitely donate and there's a volunteer button that you can
click on and express your interests as well. So whether
you are a company seeking to mobilize your employees to
do something good in the community. There are a plethora
of volunteer opportunities available, not just with food Tuesday distribution,
but with cross programs. There's just so many things that
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you can do to be involved with us.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Talk to us a little bit about your HIV prevention.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah, focus area. Absolutely, so we are evolving and we're
really pleased about that. And so for a long time,
our primary emphasis was just on treating individuals who were
either at risk of contracting HIV or who were already
exposed to HIV. And so now we're expanded beyond that
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because thankfully we are in a new space and area
in time now where HIV is no longer considered a
virus that you know, it's not a death sentence anymore.
And so that was part of the motivation for joining
forces with a be Well Medical Clinic, so that we
can expand the health portfolio of the you know, the
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services that we provide in that service area. And so yes,
we continue to provide supports to those who are at
risk of contracting HIV or who are already exposed to
the virus. And you can go to our website and
click on the community health tab and you can learn
more about those programs and how you can be involved
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if you are impacted, if you know someone who is so.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You said earlier that you have a new president and CEO,
Starr Alan Petway, and but you also mentioned a couple
of other team members who are new too. And what
do you guys look at your like your vision for
the organization, what stars vision for the organization and the
value of her leadership brings to your future.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I would say that Star's number one priority is to
ensure the fiscal solvency of the organization for the next
one hundred and twenty years. We want to become a
household name, a household brand beyond the city of Detroit
and the Metro Detroit limits. We seek to have a
presence in every part of the city of Detroit, and
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we've already decided to have those conversations in terms of
what that could look like. We would like for our
programs and services to be replicated, you know, to be
the model, the standard of excellence for how human services
are deployed amongst vulnerable populations. We are an organization and
with Stars leadership, we are an organization where we take
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accountability for the things that go well, and we also
take accountability for the things that don't go well. We
get into the room, we don't spend a lot of
time focusing on the problems. We spend a majority of
our time focusing on solutions. And I really appreciate and
value that in terms of Stars leadership, you know, making
sure that there are metrics of success that everyone within
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the organization, no matter if you are a custodian or
if you are you know, a security guard, or if
you are a head start teacher, or if you're a director,
or if you're in senior leadership, everyone has metrics that
they should strive to achieve because all of our collective
efforts come together to serve the greater good, and that
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is the services that we provide to our constituents. So
I really appreciate and value that about Stars leadership. She's fair,
she's present, and I really do believe that she has
what it takes. She has what this organization is need
of right now, and we're just super excited to see
what what she comes up with for the next several
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years and beyond.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I was going to say, you guys, you seem really
excited about your organization. You seem really really excited about
your organization.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I am. I am, you know, coming from where I've
come from in the past, and you know, joining major
steam and services. This is really where I feel like
I'm supposed to be at in my career right now.
A Star is giving me an opportunity to really quote
unquote flex my muscle, to really show what I can
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do and what I can bring to the organization, and
everybody who's in leadership across the organization. She wants to
give you a chance to show what you can do
and how you can elevate the organization. There are a
number of surprises that we have in sore for this
year that we that I'm not at liberty to discuss
right now. We really just want people to stay in
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tuned with the work that it is that we're doing.
We are just so out of the fact that we
have the largest footprint within the city of Detroit, who
are servicing the largest number of detroit My goal is
to ensure that everyone is aware of the services that
we provide and make sure that everyone knows that there
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is a role that you can play to help lift
up Detroiters in need, because there are lots of Detroiters
who want to be a part of what's going on.
They want to help. They just need access to opportunity.
And if you call us, if you email us, if
you contact us, we will respond and we will do
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our due diligence and work our hardest to ensure that
we get you on the right path so that you
can earn a good living for yourself and for your family.
And when you do that, you stabilize communities. And once
you stabilize communities, you help your city. Once you help
your city, guess what, you've officially become a part of
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the resurgence. And that's what we want everyone to have
equal access to opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, it's really the resurgence of the human you know,
the resurgence of their spirit, of their livelihood, of their
well being, of their peace, everything, all the things that
are really the foundation of the community being built up
and growing. Those are the kinds of things that it
seems like you really focus.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
On exactly exactly. And there's something else I want to
mention as well. When we talk about partnerships, there's so many.
One of the more significant partnerships that we are extremely
proud of is our partnership with Senator Debbie Stabbin. Now
she in her office a supported matrix with a two
million dollar federal investment into the Matrix Center, and we
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use that funding to transform what's called Armadar Area, and
so that area has been transformed into a state of
the art business incubator space.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
And so it's currently under construction, and construction is scheduled
to be completed by the end of the spring, and
so progress is coming along amazingly. We had a huge
kickoff or a groundbreaking event in February of last year
to announce the award and to give folks a tour
(29:14):
of the spaces to be renovated. It was an amazing event.
Fox two came out and did a wonderful story. Mayor
Duggan came out and provided remarks in support of the project,
as well as Scott Benson, who has an office in
the Matrix Center, and representatives from Senator Sabanaw's office came
by as well. And so again I just want to
(29:36):
emphasize the litany of partnerships, the scope of partnerships that
are required to make the work possible and as a result,
of that investment. We are leveraging that to raise funds
to renovate the entirety of the Matrix Center, which is
sixty thousand square feet. Wow, that we acquired for one
dollar in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Wow, just a buck what it costs your renovates sixty
thousand square feet exact law exactly. You know.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
That is another initiative that keeps me up at night,
you know, undergoing this capital campaign because it's gonna cost
a lot of money to renovate that that entire building.
We want the community to have a hub within it
that they can be product, that members of that community
can be prouduct, that they can come in and just
(30:27):
look around and say, Wow, they really did all of
this for us, because it's what they deserve. And so
the Matrice Center is destined to be a one stop
shop for all needs of everyone in that community.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I love it. Our guest today has pad Monique Phillips.
She's the VP of Development and Marketing at Matrix Human Services.
Thanks for everything you're doing in the community. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
It's my pleasure and I cann't see myself doing anything else,
and I'm just thankful to be here to talk about
the good word of Matrix, though I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
If you need more information, please visit Matrix human Services
dot org. Thanks again for joining us. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
This has been light Up the D a community affairs
program from iHeartMedia Detroit. If your organization would like to
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