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SOUPy Spin-off Tonight At Spaulding Court

SOUP is a monthly micro-grant dinner in Detroit. You can read more about it right here in yesterday’s New York Times article that also features LOVELAND and Imagination Station. Jon Koller has been inspired to start a SOUPy spin-off happening TONIGHT AT 7 at Spaulding Court (2747 Rosa Parks and Perry in North Corktown). Read on for details.

If you can’t make it, go here to support Spaulding Court through Kickstarter.

Hey folks,

Because we think the SOUP event they have in Mexicantown is so rad, we’re starting up our own right at Spaulding Court. For those that aren’t familiar, SOUP is a monthly dinner that raises money to distribute to a project that the dinner guests select.  

It goes like this: people come for dinner—soup, salad and bread—and give $5.  At the end of the meal, three folks present projects they’d like to accomplish and the crowd votes for a winner.  At the currently running SOUP in Mexicantown, all the proceeds minus the costs of the meal go to the project.  

At Spaulding, we’re going to do things a bit differently.  We’ll split the proceeds from the dinner between the vote winner and Friends of Spaulding Court.  Then, we’ll post a video of the winning presentation on Kickstarter and in one weeks time, try to raise an equal amount to the sum the dinner brought in.  If we can get 50 people a week at this dinner, we’ll be able to raise $24,000 over the course of a year to rehabilitate Spaulding Court as well as helping over 50 different projects succeed.  You can think of it as multi-tiered crowd-sourcing, building a local economy, dinner entertainment or whatever else!

This will be the first one so it will be a bit crude.  If you can help set up or would like to get involved in building the event into the future, give me a call or just come a bit early.  If you have a project you’d like to pitch, send me an email.  3 min max presentation, no visual aids, yes for questions. 

So here are the details:

—Soup at Spaulding—

Thursday, August 5th (Rain or Shine—we have a canopy)

Eat at 7pm, presentations and vote at 7:30pm

Crushed Lentil Soup from the lovely Hannah

Tasty Salad from Farmer Greg

Local and Delicious Bread

$5, BYOB (bring your own bowl)

Dancing and drinks to follow with the Pink FlaminGO! till 11pm

Feel free to pass this around or bring a friend (or two).

-Jon

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