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When the Detroit Free Press announced their partnership with UIX, they shared an idea worth repeating: When it comes to civic engagement and transformation, small-scale projects matter. Says Jewel Gopwani:

Think of the word innovation and it’s easy to think big: the assembly line, the Internet, the iPad. But shrink your scope a bit, and you’ll find innovators among the projects that are making an essential difference in Detroit.

Can you imagine a Detroit without Veronika Scott's Empowerment Plan, which gives self-heated waterproof coats to the city’s homeless? Or without Bobby Smith’s En Garde! Detroit, which teaches at-risk youths the sport of fencing and gives them the structure and confidence to go far in life?

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