The Greater Detroit-Windsor Project (GDWP) officially launched in the fall of 2024 with support from the Ford Foundation. Its vision recognizes an interconnected region of citizens who value one another as neighbors. Here we are more than just residents of the separate local municipalities in which we live–we share a common destiny.
We also share interest in working together on the issues that define our quality of life. Air and water. Transportation. Land use and development patterns. Schools and service delivery. It is vital that we create systems of governance so resources and opportunity can be available to everyone across the local economy.
The mission of the Greater Detroit-Windsor Project is to offer insightful data, new narratives, and thought-provoking programs that bring together a broad-based coalition of stakeholders across Southeast Michigan and Southwest Ontario who act on the vision.
We are interdependent. We make hard decisions for a greater good. We stand strongest together.
In order to realize this vision, we must support a generational effort to rebuild the core of our communities, while restoring our natural habitats, where we reconnect, reinvest and come to realize a more sustainable local economy and ecosystem. To do this, we must also model local systems of governance and collaboration to ensure better outcomes.
The Greater Detroit-Windsor Project is a platform to vision and prototype our greater metropolis.
