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Comerica Bank, DTE Energy partner with ACCESS to empower community As part of its commitment to help communities prosper and grow, Comerica Bank maintains a thriving partnership with ACCESS, the largest Arab American nonprofit human services organization in the United States.	DTE congratulates ACCESS on 43 years of community empowerment For more than 20 years, DTE Energy has been a major supporter of ACCESS and all the services it provides to the metropolitan Detroit area and across the country.
ACCESS Youth and Education director receives Gene L. Brazell Community Role Model Award April 2, 2014 ACCESS Youth and Education director and Dearborn resident, Anisa Sahoubah received the Gene L. Brazell Community Role Model Award during Henry Ford Community College’s (HFCC) 41st Annual Women’s Recognition Luncheon held on March 28.	ACCESS calls on Department of Environmental Quality to deny Severstal request to increase fuel emissions from Dearborn plant March 27, 2014 As the largest Arab American human services non-profit in the United States, ACCESS vehemently opposes Severstal Dearborn’s Permit to Install (PTI) 182-05C, which would essentially result in increased emissions of harmful pollutants into our environment.
Arab American women philanthropists make grant to local charity March 25, 2014 The Center for Arab American Philanthropy (CAAP), a program of ACCESS, held a fundraiser, themed "100 Arab American Women Who Care” on Sunday, March 23, in honor of women’s history month. The event’s purpose was to demonstrate the power of collective giving and working together to make a difference.	New campaign launches to challenge cultural acceptability of discrimination toward Arab Americans March 24, 2014 The National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), a project of ACCESS, today launched The Campaign to TAKE ON HATE, a multi-year, grassroots campaign to challenge this country’s growing prejudice and persistent misconception of Arab and Muslim Americans, including refugees of Arab and Muslim descent.
ACCESS mourns death of Antiochian Orthodox Church leader March 20, 2014 The leadership, board and staff at ACCESS join the national Antiochian Orthodox community and the Arab American community in mourning the loss of His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip (Saliba).	Lina Hourani Harajli new ACCESS Chief Operating Officer (COO) March 18, 2014 ACCESS, the largest Arab American human services nonprofit in the United States, announced Lina Hourani Harajli as its Chief Operating Officer (COO) this week.
Striking museum exhibits reveal everyday life and sacred images March 13, 2014 Two shows at the Arab American National Museum cry out for eyes and interest. The exhibit of black-and-white photographs in “Ordinary Lives” on the museum’s lower level are striking, while the paintings and mosaics in “Sacred Scenes: Icons of the Orthodox Church,” which features the contemporary work of one of the world’s foremost iconographers, are likely to not only impress but amuse. Read the Detroit News article.	Palestinian filmmaker kicks off Arab Film Festival March 7, 2014 “When I Saw You,” a coming-of-age story from Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, opens the 2014 Arab Film Festival at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. Read the Detroit Free Press article.