Just three months into my new role as chief operating officer for the Marygrove Conservancy, the effects of COVID-19 forced us to close Marygrove’s 53-acre campus, as 48221 quickly became a COVID hotspot.
We’d recently teamed with Strategic Community Partners to design an incubator concept to provide child and family serving non-profits with facilities and capacity building support, but we quickly realized we needed to create a program in direct response to leading in a post-COVID world.