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Leading During a Pandemic – DBG Welcomes New Board Chair

The Downtown Boxing Gym is pleased to welcome Rakesh Aneja, who is taking the helm of DBG’s board of directors amid COVID-19. Rakesh has served ...
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See the Downtown Boxing Gym’s Safe Re-Open Plan in Action

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic put life on lockdown in March, the Downtown Boxing Gym has re-opened its doors to students in ...
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COVID-19 Through the Eyes of a DBG Student

Amid the crisis caused by COVID-19, one thing has remained certain: Families can count on the Downtown Boxing Gym. After 94 days of online tutoring, ...
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Mobile COVID-19 Testing Makes a Stop at DBG

As part of an ongoing program to make COVID-19 testing more accessible to residents across the city of Detroit, Wayne State University, ACCESS, the Wayne ...
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DBG Faces on the Front Lines, Shaquana Suggs

Every week, our DBG vans, drivers and team members are hard at work, delivering emergency food boxes to our students and families, and getting tens ...
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DBG Faces on the Front Lines, Coach Tone

Every week, our DBG vans, drivers and team members are hard at work, delivering emergency food boxes to our students and families, and getting tens ...
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DBG Faces on the Front Lines, Darryl Stanbrough

Every week, our DBG vans, drivers and team members are hard at work, delivering emergency food boxes to our students and families, and getting tens ...
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Support DBG’s COVID-19 Emergency Response

Our DBG family always sticks together. Especially when times get tough. Click below to watch.     All Michigan schools and our after-school program are ...
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Meet The Gym’s Volunteers: Dino Ruggeri

Dino Ruggeri has become a regular volunteer at the Downtown Boxing Gym. The graduate of Grosse Pointe North High School is helping to take after-school ...
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Meet the Gym’s Volunteers: Sophia Filipe

Sophia, a junior at the University of Michigan, is currently studying abroad in Dakar, Senegal. But she says her heart is at DBG and she’ll ...
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