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The DocumentaryCan Soup Change the World?Detroit Soup

See some of the projects which got their start by winning Detroit Soup

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Growing up Samantha White was a huge fan of hip hop music

But her mother turned her onto a different kind of prose - that of William Shakespeare

  • Detroit Soup is a crowd-funding dinner where social entrepreneurs pitch for funding
  • Detroit Soup has raised over $85,000 for community projects since it started in 2010
  • Veronika Scott is the founder of The Empowerment Plan
  • The Empowerment Plan won around $850 at Detroit Soup five years ago
  • Sit on It Detroit used the money it won at Detroit Soup to build bus stop benches
  • Growing up Samantha White was a huge fan of hip hop music
  • Today Samantha runs Shakespeare in Detroit - the city's first theatre company dedicated to the Bard
  • Jewellery company Rebel Nell won around $1400 in funding at Detroit Soup
  • Rebel Nell uses one of Detroit's most-abundant resources for its jewellery - graffiti

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