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Table 3.11: Key aspects of Detroit’s SOUP and Awesome Foundation chapter<br />
Group Resourcing Format Entry Use for assets<br />
SOUP<br />
(founded in 2010)<br />
• Mostly<br />
volunteer efforts<br />
• Food paid by<br />
bar receipts and<br />
given pro bono<br />
• Venue given<br />
freely<br />
• Restaurants and<br />
attendees often<br />
bring food to<br />
share<br />
• Four individuals<br />
get 4-5 minutes to<br />
present their ideas<br />
to diners<br />
• Informal meal<br />
• Attendees then<br />
discuss, ask<br />
questions, and vote<br />
• Winner receives<br />
night’s pool, which<br />
is funded by the<br />
$5 entry fee (times<br />
250, the typical<br />
attendance)<br />
• Anyone can apply to enter<br />
• Must say how proposed<br />
project would affect<br />
Detroit<br />
• List of four is drawn up by<br />
organizer and colleagues<br />
— which may include<br />
recommending that some<br />
do more work on their<br />
pitch and come back<br />
• Winners have<br />
included a park<br />
clean-up day<br />
for schoolchildren,<br />
and a<br />
community-run<br />
radio station<br />
Awesome<br />
(chapter founded in<br />
mid-2011)<br />
• All volunteer<br />
• Small groups of<br />
people<br />
• Typically, a<br />
contribution might<br />
see ten people each<br />
giving $100 a month<br />
— making a pooled<br />
grant of $1,000<br />
• Anyone can apply and the<br />
form is easy to complete<br />
• Winners need to be ones<br />
of a sufficient scale that<br />
$1,000 will help them (so<br />
not too big or too small)<br />
• Idea should also be one<br />
that grabs attention<br />
• Award should be<br />
usable immediately or<br />
imminently<br />
• Focus is not<br />
explicitly on<br />
assets, but in<br />
DC, community<br />
wi-fi and pop-up<br />
contemporary art<br />
venues have been<br />
funded<br />
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