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Detroit's Empowerment Plan featured in NYTimes
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Model D Staff
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We're always happy to read national press on CCS alum Veronika Scott, who was featured in Model D's
IdeaLab
speaker series in January. This time the words attached to her good deeds come courtesy of The New York Times. Here's an excerpt:
Having graduated this past December, Ms. Scott has now founded
the Empowerment Plan
, a nonprofit company, where she is training and paying recently homeless women to produce the coats for those living on the streets. Already they have made 275 coats -- 100 of which have been given to homeless people in Detroit and two of which Ms. Scott gave to Occupy Wall Street supporters she met while visiting New York this winter.
Read the rest of it
here
.
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