Projects

Incite Focus is a world-recognized, state-of-the-art production and training lab focused on the relationships between digital fabrication, permaculture, experiential learning, and appropriate technology. It is a key fabrication lab to combine these four areas of interest, which provides a holistic approach to sustainable community building. Incite Focus serves a community of thinkers and doers from students as young as 14 years of age, to young adults, to the neighborhood community group. It is a collaborative learning space where concepts and ideas are realized through technologies that give its users the capacity to create personal, household, community, commercial and industrial products using best-practices.  

The mission of the Boggs School is to nurture creative, critical thinkers who contribute to the well-being of their communities.

The Youth Initiatives Project (YIP) provides youth leadership and advocacy training focused on gun violence and substance abuse prevention.

The Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation is a non-profit, community-based organization working to preserve and improve the Grandmont Rosedale Neighborhoods of northwest Detroit.

Diane and Thom Linn are the founders of Linn Enterprises. OK, there's no such thing as Linn Enterprises, but the Linn family – Diane, Thom, and their children Emily, Andy, and Rob – is as much a consortium of Detroit-improving enterprises as it is a loving family, all of whom are active in working to help build a better Detroit. ?

MBAD African Bead Museum is a major repository for African artifacts including sculptures, textiles, pottery, and bead works dating back hundreds of years, from countless cultures throughout Africa.

The Del Pryor Gallery is one of Detroit's longtime art institutions, currently located in Midtown after myopic development attempts in Greektown and Harmonie Park pushed the nationally-respected gallery out of its prior homes. Owner Dell Pryor was among Detroit's earliest arts ambassadors, at a time when opening a gallery in the city made sense to no one but her. 

The Raiz Up is a neighborhood collective of Southwest Detroit residents using hip hop as a tool to create social awareness in their community through community dialog, artistic creation and collective action.