All Things Women, Inc is a nonprofit,
501 c 3, community-based organization. Founded in 2018, this organization strives to be the premier agency for advocating, supporting, and encouraging women and families.
Our primary Mission is to provide comprehensive housing and supportive services to women, children, and families in the State of Michigan. To provide programming that will eliminate barriers and increase opportunities for a successful transition to permanent housing.
Born in the City of Detroit but raised in South Central Los Angeles M. Mena Davis had bi-coastal, personal experiences, into the lives of children who experience homelessness. She was raised by a single mother and a crack addicted step-parent, she became the parent to her three younger siblings at a very young age. Mena attributes learning to navigate life without the guidance of an adult as a lifelong lesson and these experiences instilled, in her, a passion to serve others.
Mena began her nonprofit career in 1986 at the Boys and Girls Club in San Diego California. She has since led several nonprofit projects and successfully provided grant funding to over three hundred nonprofit organizations. From 2011 – 2018, she worked at the Veterans Coordinator for a nonprofit Veterans Housing and Recovery Program. In the first year she tripled the operating budget and increased the organization’s bed capacity from 21 to 80 Transitional Housing Beds. Mena has over thirty years of grant writing and non-profit management experience and has providing grant writing support to the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History since 2019.
In 2020, Mena leased a mansion style home and began providing housing and supportive services for women and families who became homeless due to a Covid-19 hardship. She is the founder, and Executive Director of All Things Women Inc. This community-led nonprofit was developed through collaboration with local women of color who came together in response to a lack of programs and services in high crime and poverty communities. Programming includes emergency shelter, foodbank and clothes closet, grief and trauma counseling, life skills and financial literacy training, job readiness and placement, safety planning and personal protection, and fine arts and cultural experiences. Through successful partnerships with the City of Detroit, Michigan AT Work, Durfee Innovation Society, Wayne County, and other women-led organizations, we successfully housed 97% of clients in our shelter, from homelessness into permanent housing.
We have open volunteer hours Tuesday thru Thursday from 10:30- 4:00pm. Volunteers can donate their time in two-hour increments.