The University of Michigan MBA program as part of their class orientation includes a day of public service in Detroit with the help of Motor City Blight Busters, a non-profit dedicated to the stabilization and revitalization of Detroit neighborhoods on Sept. 1, 2011. The Ross School of Business stresses an action-based business education to their students allowing them to be more attentive to the needs of its major city of Detroit. This year the school teamed up with John George, owner of Motor City Blight Busters, who founded the organization over two decades ago when he decided to take matters into his own hands by boarding up an abandoned house in his neighborhood that crack dealers would take over each night. Since 1988, the non-profit has been a positive catalyst in Detroit to neighborhoods, families, as well as volunteers by tearing down abandoned homes and building new ones, cleaning up dump sites and painting existing houses.
