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​Our mission is to provide underserved individuals and families access to necessary human services such as food assistance and life skill education.
Our Founder,
Yvette Chandler-Brock
In Loving Memory
Our founder, Yvette Brock, grew up in Inkster at a time when the city was thriving. Even still, she observed the impact of poverty and food insecurity firsthand. Growing up in a large family with one income was tough. the family was glad to have a summer lunch program and they often benefited from food donations from local churches when money was tight.
Returning to the city after 15 years, our beloved founder noticed that many of those once flourishing neighborhoods were overrun with drugs, dealers, addicts, and gangs. There was a large and expanding homeless population, and many days she would see children wandering around looking for food.
One day, she overheard a child ask her mother, “Mommy does this mean we’re not going to eat again tonight?”
From that moment on, Yvette committed to do whatever she could to make sure that
every individual and family would never again go to bed hungry. That is when the idea of New Step CDC was born.
New Step Community Development Corporation is a Michigan 501(c)3 established in 2016 to address the needs of a distressed community. The organization's goal has been to impact the lives of local citizens one step at a time. Our program and services focus on education, human
services and local economic development.
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We have sponsored annual back-to-school backpack drives serving over 500 students in past years; customizing backpacks by grades k-college and an annual toy drive for low-income individuals and families in the Inkster and surrounding areas. New Step provides resources and education to improve
quality of life with wraparound services including the VITA tax program with IRS-certified volunteers. We also partner with other organizations such as the Wayne Metro Community Action Agency, Inkster Housing, We Rise, the Kidney Foundation, Starfish Family Services, and the Western Wayne County Health Center.