community partner placements
The DukeEngage Detroit program on social innovation and entrepreneurship partners with innovative nonprofits, public agencies, civic organizations, social enterprises, philanthropic foundations, and intermediary organizations.
DukeEngage students work with their assigned community partner to define, design and implement a project important to the community partner and beneficial to the Detroit community. Student teams are challenged to create significant results for their community partners—results that the students will view as a signature accomplishment when they graduate from Duke University. Students are actively supervised and coached by the the Program Directors (Social Innovation faculty and staff of Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship).
If your organization is interested in having a pair of students work on a project during future summers, please contact Katherine Black at [email protected] with subject line "DukeEngage Detroit Community Partner Inquiry". We accept these inquiries followed by applications on a rolling basis.
DukeEngage students work with their assigned community partner to define, design and implement a project important to the community partner and beneficial to the Detroit community. Student teams are challenged to create significant results for their community partners—results that the students will view as a signature accomplishment when they graduate from Duke University. Students are actively supervised and coached by the the Program Directors (Social Innovation faculty and staff of Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship).
If your organization is interested in having a pair of students work on a project during future summers, please contact Katherine Black at [email protected] with subject line "DukeEngage Detroit Community Partner Inquiry". We accept these inquiries followed by applications on a rolling basis.
2022 community partners (hybrid)
TechTown Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
Co.Act Detroit is a hub that accelerates transformative impact with nonprofit and community organizations in southeast Michigan through collaborative idea generation, cross-sector resources, and equitable access to world-class programming and learning opportunities. They build authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact. They source local and global wisdom to co-create programs and resources that meet nonprofits where they are.
MedHealth is driving enduring medical device and digital health innovation. They are a regional collaboration connecting, convening, and educating the medical innovation ecosystem in Southeast Michigan and Southwest Ontario to accelerate the adoption of technologies that improve quality of care and contribute to economic growth.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
MoGo Detroit Bike Share is Detroit’s first public bike sharing system, with 430 bikes at 43 stations across 10 Detroit neighborhoods. Designed for quick trips around town, MoGo is a fun, flexible and convenient way to get around. MoGo has many exciting programs including the Neighborhood Ambassadors program, Youth Ambassadors Program, Street Skills, and Adaptive Mogo.
Co.Act Detroit is a hub that accelerates transformative impact with nonprofit and community organizations in southeast Michigan through collaborative idea generation, cross-sector resources, and equitable access to world-class programming and learning opportunities. They build authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact. They source local and global wisdom to co-create programs and resources that meet nonprofits where they are.
MedHealth is driving enduring medical device and digital health innovation. They are a regional collaboration connecting, convening, and educating the medical innovation ecosystem in Southeast Michigan and Southwest Ontario to accelerate the adoption of technologies that improve quality of care and contribute to economic growth.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
MoGo Detroit Bike Share is Detroit’s first public bike sharing system, with 430 bikes at 43 stations across 10 Detroit neighborhoods. Designed for quick trips around town, MoGo is a fun, flexible and convenient way to get around. MoGo has many exciting programs including the Neighborhood Ambassadors program, Youth Ambassadors Program, Street Skills, and Adaptive Mogo.
2021 community partners (virtual)
TechTown Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
MedHealth is driving enduring medical device and digital health innovation. They are a regional collaboration connecting, convening, and educating the medical innovation ecosystem in Southeast Michigan and Southwest Ontario to accelerate the adoption of technologies that improve quality of care and contribute to economic growth.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
GreenLight Fund Detroit helps transform the lives of children, youth and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to identify critical needs, import innovative, entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant, measurable impact, and, galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact in the new city. We envision a national network of GreenLight Fund cities, working together and learning from each other to harness the vision and ambition of social entrepreneurs and accelerate the spread of proven programs that make lasting change for children, youth and families.
MedHealth is driving enduring medical device and digital health innovation. They are a regional collaboration connecting, convening, and educating the medical innovation ecosystem in Southeast Michigan and Southwest Ontario to accelerate the adoption of technologies that improve quality of care and contribute to economic growth.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
GreenLight Fund Detroit helps transform the lives of children, youth and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to identify critical needs, import innovative, entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant, measurable impact, and, galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact in the new city. We envision a national network of GreenLight Fund cities, working together and learning from each other to harness the vision and ambition of social entrepreneurs and accelerate the spread of proven programs that make lasting change for children, youth and families.
2020 community partners (virtual)
TechTown Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
GreenLight Fund Detroit helps transform the lives of children, youth and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to identify critical needs, import innovative, entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant, measurable impact, and, galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact in the new city. We envision a national network of GreenLight Fund cities, working together and learning from each other to harness the vision and ambition of social entrepreneurs and accelerate the spread of proven programs that make lasting change for children, youth and families.
Street Democracy was started to bring legal services to the homeless wherever they are. We realized that legal issues are not the only bars jailing our clients, that unless we addressed underlying causes of their poverty, we were merely performing legal triage. We needed to work smarter. By partnering with social service agencies, we can provide coordinated human and legal services to make our clients’ progress permanent. Guided by our clients’ experiences, we advocate for systemic reforms that promote the equitable administration of governance.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
GreenLight Fund Detroit helps transform the lives of children, youth and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to identify critical needs, import innovative, entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant, measurable impact, and, galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact in the new city. We envision a national network of GreenLight Fund cities, working together and learning from each other to harness the vision and ambition of social entrepreneurs and accelerate the spread of proven programs that make lasting change for children, youth and families.
Street Democracy was started to bring legal services to the homeless wherever they are. We realized that legal issues are not the only bars jailing our clients, that unless we addressed underlying causes of their poverty, we were merely performing legal triage. We needed to work smarter. By partnering with social service agencies, we can provide coordinated human and legal services to make our clients’ progress permanent. Guided by our clients’ experiences, we advocate for systemic reforms that promote the equitable administration of governance.
2019 Community partners
TechTown Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
Detroit Food Academy is an experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
MoGo Detroit Bike Share is Detroit’s first public bike sharing system, with 430 bikes at 43 stations across 10 Detroit neighborhoods. Designed for quick trips around town, MoGo is a fun, flexible and convenient way to get around. MoGo has many exciting programs including the Neighborhood Ambassadors program, Youth Ambassadors Program, Street Skills, and Adaptive Mogo.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
Street Democracy was started to bring legal services to the homeless wherever they are. We realized that legal issues are not the only bars jailing our clients, that unless we addressed underlying causes of their poverty, we were merely performing legal triage. We needed to work smarter. By partnering with social service agencies, we can provide coordinated human and legal services to make our clients’ progress permanent. Guided by our clients’ experiences, we advocate for systemic reforms that promote the equitable administration of governance.
NextEnergy is one of the nation’s leading accelerators of advanced energy technologies, businesses, and industries. NextEnergy drives technology demonstration and commercialization; delivers industry and venture development services; and provides an authoritative voice in the public sector. Since its inception, NextEnergy has helped attract more than $1.4 billion of new investment in the state of Michigan, including programs in excess of $150 million in which NextEnergy has directly participated.
Detroit Food Academy is an experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
MoGo Detroit Bike Share is Detroit’s first public bike sharing system, with 430 bikes at 43 stations across 10 Detroit neighborhoods. Designed for quick trips around town, MoGo is a fun, flexible and convenient way to get around. MoGo has many exciting programs including the Neighborhood Ambassadors program, Youth Ambassadors Program, Street Skills, and Adaptive Mogo.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
Street Democracy was started to bring legal services to the homeless wherever they are. We realized that legal issues are not the only bars jailing our clients, that unless we addressed underlying causes of their poverty, we were merely performing legal triage. We needed to work smarter. By partnering with social service agencies, we can provide coordinated human and legal services to make our clients’ progress permanent. Guided by our clients’ experiences, we advocate for systemic reforms that promote the equitable administration of governance.
NextEnergy is one of the nation’s leading accelerators of advanced energy technologies, businesses, and industries. NextEnergy drives technology demonstration and commercialization; delivers industry and venture development services; and provides an authoritative voice in the public sector. Since its inception, NextEnergy has helped attract more than $1.4 billion of new investment in the state of Michigan, including programs in excess of $150 million in which NextEnergy has directly participated.
2018 Community partners
TechTown Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
Detroit Food Academy is an experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
Build Institute helps people turn their business ideas into reality by providing them with the necessary tools, resources, and support network in Detroit. Whether it's their classes, networking events, mentorship, or connections to resources, they aim to provide a nurturing community that allows ideas to develop and flourish over time.
MoGo Detroit Bike Share is Detroit’s first public bike sharing system, with 430 bikes at 43 stations across 10 Detroit neighborhoods. Designed for quick trips around town, MoGo is a fun, flexible and convenient way to get around. MoGo has many exciting programs including the Neighborhood Ambassadors program, Youth Ambassadors Program, Street Skills, and Adaptive Mogo.
The GreenLight Fund helps transform the lives of children, youth and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to identify critical needs, import innovative, entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant, measurable impact, and, galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact in the new city. We envision a national network of GreenLight Fund cities, working together and learning from each other to harness the vision and ambition of social entrepreneurs and accelerate the spread of proven programs that make lasting change for children, youth and families.
ProsperUS Detroit is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents, particularly those who are African-American, Arab-American or Latino. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership. ProsperUS Detroit is a collaboration between strong community-based organizations. We have joined forces to provide training and resources to aspiring entrepreneurs who want to base their small business in particular Detroit neighborhoods. ProsperUS serves five neighborhoods (Cody Rouge, Grandmont Rosedale, Lower Eastside, North End, Southwest Detroit. In each neighborhood, trusted and experienced community partners help program participants develop skills they need to start and sustain their businesses. ProsperUS offers ongoing support and the opportunity for small business loans and technical assistance.
2017 Community Partners
Tech Town Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
Detroit Food Academy is an experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
Build Institute helps people turn their business ideas into reality by providing them with the necessary tools, resources, and support network in Detroit. Whether it's their classes, networking events, mentorship, or connections to resources, they aim to provide a nurturing community that allows ideas to develop and flourish over time.
Detroit Future City- In January 2013, after three years of solid work, drawing on the best local and national talent as well as the insights of tens of thousands of Detroiters, the Detroit Future City Strategic Framework was released. The DFC Strategic Framework is a highly detailed long term guide for decision–making by all of the stakeholders in the City. In January 2014, the DFC Implementation Office was created to ensure the successful execution of the vision created in the DFC Strategic Framework.
Detroit Experience Factory- Growing out of a grassroots nonprofit in 2006, then joining forces with D:hive in 2012, DXF is now an independent program of the Downtown Detroit Partnership. It has become a leading resource for both visitors and existing Detroiters to discover and experience the city. The Detroit Experience Factory uses interactive experiences and innovative resources to help newcomers and locals alike get more connected to the people, places and projects in Detroit. It operates Detroit’s community based Welcome Center and has taken over 70,000 people on experiential tours of Detroit since it launched in 2006.
ProsperUS Detroit (A Program of Southwest Solutions) is an entrepreneurial training and small business lending program for Detroit residents designed to empower low and moderate income, immigrant and minority individuals and neighborhoods. By helping emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses, ProsperUS will help strengthen neighborhood economies, create jobs, serve residents with new goods and services, and cultivate community-based leadership.
Street Democracy was started to bring legal services to the homeless wherever they are. We realized that legal issues are not the only bars jailing our clients, that unless we addressed underlying causes of their poverty, we were merely performing legal triage. We needed to work smarter. By partnering with social service agencies, we can provide coordinated human and legal services to make our clients’ progress permanent. Guided by our clients’ experiences, we advocate for systemic reforms that promote the equitable administration of governance.
MOGO- Detroit Bike Share is Detroit’s first public bike sharing system, with 430 bikes at 43 stations across 10 Detroit neighborhoods. Designed for quick trips around town, MoGo is a fun, flexible and convenient way to get around.
2016 Community partners
TechTown Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
Detroit Food Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
Build Institute helps people turn their business ideas into reality by providing them with the necessary tools, resources, and support network in Detroit. Whether it's their classes, networking events, mentorship, or connections to resources, they aim to provide a nurturing community that allows ideas to develop and flourish over time.
Corktown Economic Development Corporation (CEDC) helps to advance the economic growth and development of Detroit's oldest neighborhood, Corktown, through strategic planning, tactical urbanism, and community engagement. Our activities include community house parties (intimate meetings between neighbors) around topics such as youth engagement, safety, public space and parks, and large scale development; development of a neighborhood vision and place plan; activation of public parks and empty spaces through events and structures such as pop-up outdoor living rooms and community bbq; working with the City of Detroit and MDOT on redeveloping Michigan Ave into a complete street; and identifying gaps and opportunities for small business.
Detroit Food Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
Build Institute helps people turn their business ideas into reality by providing them with the necessary tools, resources, and support network in Detroit. Whether it's their classes, networking events, mentorship, or connections to resources, they aim to provide a nurturing community that allows ideas to develop and flourish over time.
Corktown Economic Development Corporation (CEDC) helps to advance the economic growth and development of Detroit's oldest neighborhood, Corktown, through strategic planning, tactical urbanism, and community engagement. Our activities include community house parties (intimate meetings between neighbors) around topics such as youth engagement, safety, public space and parks, and large scale development; development of a neighborhood vision and place plan; activation of public parks and empty spaces through events and structures such as pop-up outdoor living rooms and community bbq; working with the City of Detroit and MDOT on redeveloping Michigan Ave into a complete street; and identifying gaps and opportunities for small business.
2015 community partners
TechTown Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
Detroit Food Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
Build Institute helps people turn their business ideas into reality by providing them with the necessary tools, resources, and support network in Detroit. Whether it's their classes, networking events, mentorship, or connections to resources, they aim to provide a nurturing community that allows ideas to develop and flourish over time.
Detroit Future City strives to work with citizens, City leadership, and key stakeholders to advance the 2012 Detroit Strategic Framework Plan, which provides a community-driven vision for the next 10, 20, and 50 years. Through strong community engagement, technical assistance, and strategic advice, DFC aims to provide all Detroiters with a greater quality of life and a financially sustainable model for the City of Detroit.
NextEnergy is one of the nation’s leading accelerators of advanced energy technologies, businesses, and industries. NextEnergy drives technology demonstration and commercialization; delivers industry and venture development services; and provides an authoritative voice in the public sector. Since its inception, NextEnergy has helped attract more than $1.4 billion of new investment in the state of Michigan, including programs in excess of $150 million in which NextEnergy has directly participated.
Detroit Food Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
Build Institute helps people turn their business ideas into reality by providing them with the necessary tools, resources, and support network in Detroit. Whether it's their classes, networking events, mentorship, or connections to resources, they aim to provide a nurturing community that allows ideas to develop and flourish over time.
Detroit Future City strives to work with citizens, City leadership, and key stakeholders to advance the 2012 Detroit Strategic Framework Plan, which provides a community-driven vision for the next 10, 20, and 50 years. Through strong community engagement, technical assistance, and strategic advice, DFC aims to provide all Detroiters with a greater quality of life and a financially sustainable model for the City of Detroit.
NextEnergy is one of the nation’s leading accelerators of advanced energy technologies, businesses, and industries. NextEnergy drives technology demonstration and commercialization; delivers industry and venture development services; and provides an authoritative voice in the public sector. Since its inception, NextEnergy has helped attract more than $1.4 billion of new investment in the state of Michigan, including programs in excess of $150 million in which NextEnergy has directly participated.
2014 community partners
TechTown Detroit was founded specifically to develop and grow sustainable technology businesses. Today their work supports industry verticals that are specific to the region’s inherent assets and address the city’s identified needs, supporting not only tech businesses but also retail and wholesale enterprises for a more holistic approach to economic development.
Detroit Food Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit experiential leadership program dedicated to transforming the lives of young Detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. We partner with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round practicum culminating in the design and launch of students' own triple-bottom-line (people, planet, profit) food business. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful.
D:Hive Detroit is a physical store front in Detroit’s central business district that connects you with the tools and resources you need to live, work or engage in the city. D:hive aims to make a personalized connection with EACH person that walks its storefront. The staff of experienced residents and directors work together to supply everyone with detailed insight on living, working, engaging, or starting a project in Detroit.
