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Small Business of the Week: Farmacy Food

Feb 4, 2021
Farmacy Food is your guide and partner to looking at health holistically. They strive to serve the whole you — Farmacy Food provides food to address your nutritional needs. As they learn more about your goals, they work to connect you with their...
Farmacy Food
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Small Business of the Week: Experience Relish

Jan 28, 2021
Experience Relish is a globally inspired, locally sourced pop-up dining experience and catering company founded by Brittiany Peeler and Le’Genevieve Squires. Experience Relish is centered around food that is locally sourced, seasonal, and treated...
Experience Relish
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Small Business of the Week: Live Cycle Delight

Jan 21, 2021
Live Cycle Delight (LCD) was founded by Amina Daniels, a high energy fitness professional, who champions her Detroit based cycle studio. Equally as passionate about style as she is for fitness, she has enjoyed over 10 years of success in luxury...
Live Cycle Delight
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Small Business of the Week: Featherstone

Jan 14, 2021
Featherstone is a trilingual, immigrant-owned marketing agency seeking equity for people of color and LGBTQ communities, founded by Juan Carlos Dueweke-Perez. Juan Carlos is also the founder of Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week, which highlights...
Featherstone
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Small Business of the Week: Fahrenheit 313

Dec 17, 2020
Frederick Paul II founded Fahrenheit 313 after living as a struggling college student who needed cash in order to survive away from home. An avid sneaker addict, Fred decided to sell some of his old vintage sneakers for extra cash. He...
Fahrenheit 313
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Small Business of the Week: AKOMA

Dec 11, 2020
AKOMA is a cooperative for Detroit’s women artists and makers, especially Women Artists and Makers of Color. AKOMA’s vision is to create a space where like-minded women can be in community with one another, learn from one another, support one...
Akoma
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Small Business of the Week: Platters Chocolatier

Dec 3, 2020
Platters Chocolatier is a Detroit-based, full service chocolate confectionery company that specializes in designing, manufacturing and delivering custom luxury chocolates for events. Platters repertoire ranges from working with corporate clients...
Platters Chocolatier
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Small Business of the Week: PizzaPlex

Nov 19, 2020
The PizzaPlex founding team is passionate about pizza, equitable growth, and sustainable cities. Their love for these things led to the birth of PizzaPlex L3C, a community-centric pizzeria in Detroit. The PizzaPlex team is actively embarking on a...
PizzaPlex
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Small Business of the Week: AGI Construction

Nov 12, 2020
AGI Construction is a service-disabled veteran, native-american minority-owned general contractor construction company based in Southwest Detroit. AGI provides commercial and multi-housing interior remodeling, retrofitting, and building services...
AGI Construction
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Small Business of the Week: The Lab Drawer

Nov 5, 2020
The Lab Drawer is an Ed-Tech monthly subscription box full of cross-functional learning experiences for children ages 10-14. Inspired by the look of a chemistry lab drawer, every box includes materials and instructions for a unique STEM...
The Lab Drawer
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Small Business of the Week: The Congregation

Oct 22, 2020
The Congregation is a coffee shop, bar, and community event space located in Detroit’s Boston-Edison neighborhood. Co-founded by Betsy Murdoch, The Congregation is located in a former 1920s-era church. Detroit restaurants, such as Pizza Plex,...
The Congregation
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Small Business of the Week: Olive Seed

Oct 15, 2020
Founded by Latricia Wright in 2008, Olive Seed was formed around the goal of educating people about the transformational power of nutrition. Olive Seed offers a range of integrative services, nutritional assessments and dietary support, workshops...
Olive Seed
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Small Business of the Week: ForHerCosmetics

Oct 8, 2020
"Chemistry in Cosmetics" Alyssa Space is the founder and CEO of ForHerCosmetics. From an early age, Alyssa's involvement in dance, pageants, and science fairs inspired her love for beauty, fashion and science. Alyssa's passions are interwoven...
ForHerCosmetics
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Small Business of the Week: Cooking With Que

Oct 1, 2020
Our mission is to teach people to EAT TO LIVE, by introducing more plant based meals into everyday living. With hands on demonstrations and living recipes, Cooking with Que satisfies every appetite at the table. From meal preps to cooking...
Cooking With Que
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Small Business of the Week: Detroit Dough

Sep 23, 2020
Detroiters, dreamers and dough lovers – that’s us. Founded by three African American millennials, Detroit Dough offers quality ready-to-eat dough. With an assortment of flavors of dough, we promise three things – our dough is always safe,...
Detroit Dough
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Small Business of the Week: Gaddis Gaming

Sep 17, 2020
Gaddis Gaming is dedicated to bringing new and exciting products to the leisure and entertainment industry. They specialize in manufacturing tabletop game related products that will enhance the social game playing experience both at home or in...
Gaddis Gaming
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Barr seeks financial inclusion for underserved communities

Aug 12, 2020
Throughout his career in academia and in government, Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr has sought ways to help low-income people get better access to the financial system, and to change the financial system to work better for low-income...
Barr seeks financial inclusion for underserved communities
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Entrepreneur Resource for COV-ID: Update Your Business Hours

Apr 1, 2020
With a statewide shelter in place order in effect in Michigan, small businesses in Michigan are being forced to pivot or seek emergency/disaster funding to survive.  In support of the University of Michigan's Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs...
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Muse Cosmetics

Apr 5, 2019
Sheryl Espinal operates a small business with lofty ambitions. A native New Yorker and nurse by profession, she exudes a passion for hair and makeup which she hopes to spread across the U.S. through her Detroit-based company, Muse Cosmetics. “I want...
Ford School
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Free Accounting Fridays for small business owners

Apr 18, 2018
As a result of the successful pilot held March-April 2018, the University of Michigan’s Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project is thrilled to announce that free accounting Fridays will continue! Business owners in Detroit take note: Does your...
Ford School