A Sunday feature story in the Detroit Free Press discussed the role that non-profits including Detroit Renaissance play in helping rebuild Detroit and how that's different than how the City operated even in a few years ago.

The article read, in part:

"Private leadership groups like Detroit Renaissance are leading the effort to develop a creative corridor featuring marketing and similar firms along Woodward Avenue.

And the Roger Penske-led Downtown Detroit Partnership has even taken over some street-cleaning duty as part of its Clean Downtown initiative.

In this new model, city government still plays an important role, but civic leadership has been spread among many different institutions."

Read the rest of the article here.