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It was announced in mid-February that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is offering just shy of $2 Million as support for local projects in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. Funding and grants such as this are not uncommon for this city, but the Knight Foundation’s approach has inspired North End locals and offers a new narrative of investing: one focused intently on the community and its people. 
The Foundation’s Detroit Program Director, Nate Wallace, says there were a few reasons why Knight chose the North End to partner with,
There’s this impressive creativity and expertise within the neighborhood that stretches anywhere from urban farming, cooperative economics, and community internet to solar power, Afrofuturism, and techno. It’s something about the creative history and legacy of the North End that’s inherent throughout the people and their vision. ....

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