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March 20, 2010
Ann Arbor Community Center, Michigan

Community Center Comeback

Reaching out to the working poor

by Steven Moore

posted 11/30/2009

When the Rev. Yolanda Whiten was appointed to head the Ann Arbor Community Center in May 2007, it was unclear if the historically black nonprofit would survive. A couple months after Whiten started, the center's previous executive director, Ann Hampton-Hawkins, pled guilty to embezzling nearly $94,000.

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