Refugee Development Center has two grants through the Community Reinvestment Fund.

Project 1: Creating a positive learning environment for refugee children, exposing students to government planning opportunities and supporting families as they engage in local neighborhood associations, school boards and community leadership roles.

Project 2: An innovative community gathering and educational approach with soccer (or “football” as the rest of the world knows it) as the mechanism for engagement opportunities with refugee families placed in the Lansing area, RDC will work to engage new residents in planning focusing on neighbhorhood associations, parent teacher organizations and other local planning bodies.