2012 SOUP Winners
Applicant Name: Kevin Li, Emma Berger, Dean Clancy, Mary Harrington, Chelsea Pugh
Applicant Email: kevinzli@umich.edu
Project Name: DCH Printing
Amount Awarded: $1,215.25
Project Summary: We provide workshops at Detroit Community High which teach students the process of screen printing and the creation of a business model. Students learn to redesign the school’s logo, create their school’s own clothing brand, and supply end products to their local community.
website: https://www.facebook.com/dchapparel?fref=ts
name: Spaulding Court
contact: Jon Koller (contact@spauldingcourt.com)
amount awarded: $1381.75
project description: For the last three years, we’ve been trying to figure out how to fix up a long time tenant’s place (no heat, busted pipes, kitchen…etc). This summer, we finally settled on a plan. We’re fixing up a different unit for her to move in by Thanksgiving week (one week after the upcoming Soup). Once we make the swap, we’ll move over to her current place and bust it out! http://spauldingcourt.com/tiki-index.php
name: Detroit Threat Management
contact:Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman (Jacob.hurwitzgoodman@gmail.com)
amount awarded: $1132.25
project description: This new documentary, DETROIT THREAT MANAGEMENT, is a complex urban narrative that chronicles the work of the VIPERS, a citizen-activist-paramilitary force with a self-described mission of “protecting Detroit from predators.”
www.detroitthreatmanagementfilm.com
name: Rhiza Food Company
contact: Brandon Knight (detroitenergynetwork@gmail.com)
amount awarded: $2081
project description: Rhiza Food Co. is a four-season, for-profit urban production and teaching farm that emphasizes organic and ecologically-sound production.
name: Urban Recovery Farm
contact: Kimberly Frendo (kimberlyfrendo@gmail.com)
amount awarded: $635
project description:Provide a place where recovering addicts can volunteer, grow in their recovery, and find healing through horticulture.
name: Detroit Youth Food Brigade
contact:Jen Rusciano (jrusciano@gmail.com)
amount awarded: $812.25
project description: Detroit Youth Food Brigade (DYFB) is a collaboration between local high school students, food-based business, and neighborhood markets to promote food justice and build the local food economy in Detroit. This summer, 20 motivated students recruited through an application process are trained and paired with 10 committed food-based businesses to learn their ins and outs and sell their products in 10 neighborhood markets around the city.
http://www.detroityouthfoodbrigade.com/
name: Fender Bender Detroit
contact:Sarah Sidelko (fenderbenderdetroit@gmail.com)
amount awarded:$514
project description: Fender Bender is a women, transgender, and queer justice-based bike shop and mechanic training experience in the Cass Corridor, Detroit.
http://fenderbenderdetroit.wordpress.com/
name: Be the Change in Detroit: Forest Park Beautification Project
contact:Plymouth School Changemakers (allison.elisabeth@gmail.com)
amount awarded: $805
project description: beautify Forest Park (Canfield/Russell)
February 2012 Project Proposals
name: Belle Isle to 8 Mile
contact:Emily/Andy/Robb Linn (belleisleto8mile@gmail.com)
amount awarded: $1000
project description: The first comprehensive, printed guide to Detroit in a generation, Belle Isle to 8 Mile: An Insider’s Guide to Detroit features more than 1,000 Detroit attractions, sites, institutions, events, restaurants, bars, shops, and curiosities, from the essential to the obscure.
