New platform to connect nonprofits to donors, volunteers launches in Detroit
New platform to connect nonprofits to donors, volunteers launches in Detroit
Local businessmen led efforts to bring site to Detroit, providing operating support
Looking to sustain site operation through philanthropy, sponsorships
A free, web-based platform that links Detroit nonprofits with volunteers and donors has launched.
Nonprofit Share Detroit was founded by co-chairs Paul Vlasic, founder, RSVP Ventures & Capital, the Vlasic Group and the Vlasic Family Foundation, and founder and chairman of Amplifinity; and Sam Rozenberg, founder and CEO, Keeping IT Strategic. The two have provided a combined $500,000 for initial development of the platform, its Detroit launch and two years of operating costs.
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From the pandemic to historic flooding to a movement for social justice to an unprecedented election, the year 2020 will go down as a year like none other in recent memory.
Jader Bignamini, Detroit Symphony Orchestra s new music director, poses for a photo onstage at Orchestra Hall in Detroit on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020.Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
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Dr. Bonnie Perry lays face down at the feet of Episcopal reverends during a service that will ordain her as the eleventh bishop of the.
Dr. Bonnie Perry lays face down at the feet of Episcopal reverends during a service that will ordain her as the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan on Feb. 8, 2020, at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Mich. Perry will become the first woman bishop as well as the first lesbian bishop in the diocese since it was formed in 1836.Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
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