Local Fundraising
Creative projects get a leg up and their word out at gatherings that serve donations with a side of social capital. Move over, Kickstarter. Across the country, philanthropy is getting personalized.
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Cranbrook student Kate Daughdrill started Detroit Soup in 2010 as a way to empower her community—young creatives eager to help reverse the negative image that plagued their beloved city, but who lacked a way to connect and circulate concepts. Instead of relying on planners, architectural critics, and politicians for a top-down course of action, Daughdrill organized monthly dinners to help Detroit’s denizens band together to offer their version of good old-fashioned grassroots gumption.
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Diana Budds
Diana Budds is a New York–based writer who covers design, architecture, and urbanism.
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