Matrix Human Services

Brad Coulter, center, President and CEO of Matrix Human Services, was the keynote speaker at the Wednesday, April 5, evening meeting of Rotary of Grosse Pointe. He was welcomed by President Ted Everingham, left, and Club Treasurer Paul Rentenbach, right.

Coulter’s background includes working for Guardian Industries in foreign countries and dealing with poverty there and a short stint as an emergency manager for Lincoln Park. In that role, he followed the rule that a city’s most important role is maintaining property values so he tried not to cut city services. His goal was to make the city a more attractive place to live. He brought this mindset over to his role at Matrix. The organization has over 500 employees and touches 15,000 people a year with a vision to educate children, support families and rebuild neighborhoods. It does this through its Head Start education program, by providing a Safe Place at its teen runaway shelters, offering HIV outreach and prevention programs and in its Rebuilding Neighborhoods 48205 Initiative which provides small business and workforce development and is trying to find ways to increase home ownership.

To learn more and to find ways to help this great organization, please go to www.matrixhumanservices.org. (Photo by George R. McMullen Jr.)