Lisa Johanon (’87) Heads Faith-Based Program to Help Impoverished Neighborhoods

July 30 – Detroit Free-Press

Central Detroit Christian wants to do more and is venturing into fish farming and aquaponics — using the waste to grow crops — to create jobs in the neighborhood. The group is in the process of a Neighborhood Stabilization Program plan “for a major development for this community,” said Johanon, who majored in Bible and education as an undergraduate at Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College and has a law degree from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

She said there are 27 houses in a six-block area that includes Philadelphia, Pingree and Blaine that CDC wants to renovate, and that it is applying for a grant from a $5-million fund the city has available for such projects.

Read more: Alumna Lisa Jonahon (JD ’87) Helping Impoverished Detroit Citizens

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