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June 13, 2019

Report Finds that Crowdfunding Works in Helping Revitalize Michigan Communities

The cover for the new crowdfunding report. The joke could start out like, "Some Boy Scouts, an artist, a curler, beer connoisseurs, and a soccer enthusiast walk into a bar with a dream to raise nearly $1.3 million." As ridiculous…

June 12, 2019

Crowdfunding in Michigan Goes Under National Spotlight This Week in Detroit

ComCap19 is happening this week in Detroit! There's a national conference happening in Detroit this week that will shine a brightlight on Michigan's highly successful crowding movement. About 300 investors, community leaders, entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders from across the country…

May 3, 2017

Michigan recognized for crowdfunding innovation

Yesterday, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, made an exciting announcement for those of us supporting crowdfunding and placemaking in Michigan: the Public Spaces, Community Places program is…

May 13, 2016

Build it, and give them a reason to come

Spoiler alert: If you like to be surprised when you pick up the League's Review, maybe wait until you get the July issue to read this post-I'm going to be talking a bit about the projects from my article in…

March 6, 2015

Do Complete Streets require complete snow removal?

With many of Michigan's communities recovering from our coldest or snowiest Februaries on record, the Water Hill neighborhood in Ann Arbor is making headlines from The Atlantic's CityLab to the Christian Science Monitor with "SnowBuddy." From their webpage: SnowBuddy is a…

July 3, 2014

Crowdfunding in Michigan

Michigan's new crowdfunding law allows residents to make financial investments in their community through a unique and innovative platform. Known as the Michigan Invests Locally Exemption (MILE), the structure provides investors a return on their investment through an ownership stake…

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