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NBC NIGHTLY NEWS FEATURES DETROIT SOUP AND THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN

NBC Nightly News features local Detroit superheroes Detroit Soup, The Empowerment Plan, and Ponyride as a part of their “Making a Difference” report. Ron Mott interviews Amy Kaherl, co-founder of Detroit Soup and Veronika Scott, a Detroit Soup Alum and winner of the program. Watch the four-part segment below. Veronika Scott on Ponyride and the […]

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PONYRIDE LOOKS AT THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE FORECLOSURE

  Pony Ride is a recently developed project from Detroit’s media favorite and PLAYGROUND DETROIT Supervisor Phillip Cooley. He aqcuired the building- previously an unused, old office space- in Corktown for a steal and transformed it into a community space. The diverse group of tenants now occupying the 30,000 sq. ft space literally pay dimes per square-foot to rent there, enabling […]

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TEDxDETROIT: SPEAKER VERONIKA SCOTT ON THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN

TEDxDetroit Speaker Veronika Scott explains the inspiration behind Element S, a convertible sleeping bag and coat she designed while in college, which are now made by and distributed to the homeless community in Detroit. Her speech exemplifies the innate spirit of the Detroit can-do attitude: the people who call Detroit their home do what they have to in order to overcome various […]

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STAND UP DETROIT! AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST VERONIKA SCOTT

    PLAYGROUND DETROIT has been infatuated with College of Creative Studies student, Veronika Scott since first hearing of her life-changing convertible coat-sleeping bag as a creative solution to help the homeless population in Detroit, Michigan over a year ago. [Follow the link below to read a new interview with her by David Merritt of Goodness […]

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