We would keep Mason Elementary in Detroit open where we have a program supported by Hand in Hand Foundation and Beach Communications to work with 95 children. These children read at a level of at least two years below where they should be and within two years, using the program we have and the teachers we employ, we get them to grade level. The program is called Read A Book; See the World. We could take the program to all the Detroit schools so that all of the students could learn to read.

If I could do anything today, I would do three things:

I would go to a movie and dinner with my family.

I would create an environment where our kids are encouraged to do great things without being over-programmed; where they can live in a nurturing environment yet not be provided an artificial soft-landing at every bump in the road.

It has been forty years since the riots in Detroit… and yet, so little progress has been made in the relations between the City and the rest of our community. I would find a way to bridge this divide.

I live in Detroit. I wish I could find a way to help my son’s friend on the next block. He has been mugged twice this year coming home from school. How do we make Detroit safe for a ninth grader who just wants to get to school and back everyday?

If it was in my power, I would put a spell on the media to report the good news in Michigan. Our OWN media is the cause for a lot of the “doom and gloom” that people are feeling about our beautiful state. There is so much good news going on at our universities, at our companies, even in the automotive industry — but for some reason the media doesn’t lean to writing about good, happy stories (of which there are so many!). Yes, Michigan is in a financial crunch right now, but if we all become Ambassadors of our own little part of Michigan, we’ll see great things happening sooner rather than later…

It is my strong belief that the creative community will play an integral role in reviving the metropolitan Detroit area. An increase in cultural activity including visual and performing arts is necessary to attract and retain the interest of residents and visitors. Art has a positive impact on community, and can brighten the most blighted of environments and attitudes.

If I could do anything today, I would create an artist collective/community. I would obtain space to encourage and foster creativity for local artists unable to afford studio space on their own. As a non-profit endeavor, the community would support itself through grants, sales of art created on-premises, and fundraising events and activities. As part of this community, I would also implement outreach programs designed to encourage creativity among children who otherwise may not have creative programs available to them.

Wow…If I could do anything today what would I do?

There are so many things that I could answer to that, but I think if I answer this honestly, the first thing I would like to do is get Myself and my daughters out of debt so that we would be better off financially to help out others.

I would also like to open a non-profit center where parents of Mentally and/or Physically challenged kids could take them while they go to work or out to dinner, a place where they would be safe, cared for and loved, where parents would feel comfortable leaving them.

I would like to slow everything down – just a little. I’m all for a fast-paced lifestyle, but life throws so much at us it is sometimes hard to decipher what it all means, and how we should respond to it – our families, careers, and aging parents to name a few. The list sometimes gets “out-of-hand.”

If there was some way to slow things down – just a little – it might help us all have a better appreciation for what we have, and how we might be able to impove the lives of others.

You know what? I’m beginning to think I could start slowing things down by going fishing.

I would go to Disney World and ride all of the rides that I was affraid to ride before (except the Tea Cups, because I will never go on the Tea Cups again!).

If I could do anything today:

I would duplicate the innocence and wonder that fill the hearts of children and transfer those feelings into the hearts that have forgotten how to smile.

I would referee the perfect soccer game….on fields that would be safely maintained without ruts and rocks, with coaches that would be teachers of the game and not screamers and bullies and with parents who would only congratulate their sons or daughters on the effort they gave. There are so many fields that our kids play on that are terribly inadequate — large patches of dirt or bare fields, goals that are ancient, grass not cut, etc. I’d make sure that every soccer field, football field, ball diamond or any other athletic facility that our kids use would be truly fields of dreams.

I live In Detroit

I want to create Internet based nieghborhood media centers.
Where local kids could make TV and radio shows that featured them and their communities and lets people know of the things we can do.

I’d like to create

A biodiesel powered connector route shuttle bus transportation network. That employeed students to convert used fryer grease from local resturants.

A dance and music show that wasn’