Durfee Innovation Society

09/11/2025

Happening TODAY from 1-5 p.m.! 🎉

Join us for the last day of the Community Resource Fair at the Durfee Innovation Society, 2470 Collingwood!

✅ Free food truck meals
✅ School supplies
✅ One-on-one financial coaching
✅ Low-income phone plans
✅ Afterschool programs
✅ Forgotten Harvest food boxes
🎁 FREE $25 gift cards for the first 100 people!

📍 Everything is first come, first served — don’t miss out!

09/09/2025

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We’re thrilled to partner with Bank of America to bring a FREE Health, Job & Resource Fair to the Durfee Innovation Society , September 9–11! 🎉

This three-day event will feature informative sessions on topics like:

✔️ Banking basics
✔️ Home buying
✔️ Building and maintaining good credit
✔️ Small business ownership
…and much more!

Come learn, connect, and enjoy fun activities, engaging experiences, and exciting prizes.

📍 Durfee Innovation Society
📅 September 9–11
✨ Open to the community!

Please help us spread the word by sharing this with your network. See flyer for full details!

09/05/2025

We’re thrilled to partner with Bank of America to bring a FREE Health, Job & Resource Fair to the Durfee Innovation Society , September 9–11! 🎉

This three-day event will feature informative sessions on topics like:

✔️ Banking basics
✔️ Home buying
✔️ Building and maintaining good credit
✔️ Small business ownership
…and much more!

Come learn, connect, and enjoy fun activities, engaging experiences, and exciting prizes.

📍 Durfee Innovation Society
📅 September 9–11
✨ Open to the community!

Please help us spread the word by sharing this with your network. See flyer for full details!

06/26/2025

03/19/2025

Thank you to all of our tenants who participated in the Black History Month Door Decorating contest in February! This year, we welcomed four Howard University students to serve as our special judges, congratulations to our winners!

1st Place - Starfish/Focus Hope Suite #114
2nd Place - Metroehs Pediatric Therapy Suite #226
3rd Place - The New Foster Care Suite #227

Way to go DIS family! ✨

03/03/2025

This is going to be EPIC! Detroit Youth Choir students vs Life Remodeled and Detroit Youth Choir staff!!

12/20/2024

The Durfee Innovation Society will be closed Tuesday, December 24 through Wednesday, December 25 in observance of Christmas and Wednesday, January 1st in observance of New Years.

12/06/2024

Detroit Parenting Time is hosting a FREE Parenting Class next Saturday, December 14th at 11am-1pm. Certificates will be given out upon Completion and Hearty food will be served.

Registration Link:
https://calendly.com/pontiacparentingtime/parenting-101-foundational-skills-clone

10/31/2024

🎃 This year’s Trunk or Treat at the Durfee Innovation Society was a spook-tacular success! Over 400 community members joined us, along with 12 tenant organizations and 30 awesome trunkers. From start to finish, ghosts, goblins, and superheroes had a blast with music, face painting, carnival rides, and even some Mad Science experiments! Thanks to everyone who made it unforgettable—Have a safe and happy Halloween! 👻🕸️

09/05/2024

Our annual Durfee Innovation Society Community Fair in partnership with Starbucks ALL.IN was a huge success! 🎉 Over 600 community members joined us for a day of music 🎶, free food 🍔, games 🎯, giveaways 🎁, and more. Huge thanks to ALL.IN for providing 1,000 stuffed backpacks 🎒 to students! Check out this recap video to see all the fun! 📽️

08/12/2024

This year, we are proud to partner with All-In, a network partner of Starbucks to bring you our annual Durfee Innovation Society Community Fair! All-In is committed to collaborating with nonprofits, food banks and government agencies to giveback to communities across the US! Be sure to join us August 16th from 4-8 at the Durfee Innovation Society and receive free backpacks and school supplies brought to you by All-In while supplies last!

08/06/2024

🎉 Durfee Innovation Society Community Fair in partnership with All In

Join us for an afternoon of family fun! Enjoy food, music, face painting, bounce houses, a 70-foot zip-line inflatable, horseback rides, a trackless train, a gaming truck, a mobile bowling truck, and free backpacks and school supplies (while supplies last).

📅 Date: Friday, August 16
⏰ Time: 4-8pm
📍 Location: Durfee Innovation Society

Don't miss out! Click the link below to pre-register NOW! bit.ly/DISFAIR2024