Stories of Legacy Builders: Freedom Cleaning Company
Eutan Ngoulou-Lackagenie, owner of Freedom Cleaning Company based on the eastside of Detroit and serving the metro area.
Stories of Legacy Builders: L’ArteSano Cafe & Juice Bar
Mayra Torres, owner of L’ArteSano Cafe & Juice Bar in the Central Southwest neighborhood of Detroit.
ProsperUs Detroit’s 10-Year Anniversary Celebration: A Future for Us
Celebrate the last 10 years of ProsperUs Detroit’s partnership with neighborhood entrepreneurs. Together, we will envision A Future for Us.
2022 Rocket Community Challenge
Neighborhood-based entrepreneurs and small business owners are community leaders that deserve resources and capital. Your contribution will allow them to access a comprehensive set of resources to launch and grow their businesses, creating financial opportunity, job creation, generational wealth, and thriving neighborhoods.
Chanell Scott Contreras: Five Years of Intentional Leadership
Chanell Scott Contreras joined ProsperUs Detroit in July of 2017. Five years later, ProsperUs is an independent organization, a certified Community Development Institution (CDFI), and continues to invest in neighborhood entrepreneurs.
Juneteenth Reflection
Our culture is preserved and respected when the businesses in our neighborhoods are for us and by us. Our humanity is recognized, and we have safe spaces to just ‘be.’ Our people are cared for by the opportunities we create to support and build up one another. The ripple effects are boundless.
Apply to Advancing Community Businesses
Introducing the Advancing Community Businesses program, presented by Michigan Central in partnership with Build Institute and ProsperUs.
Jøn Kent I Sanctuary Farms
“I wanted to do something I was passionate about that spoke to me,” Jøn explains. “For me, everything aligned with farming. The beauty of the work is that all you need is the grit to do it. Parker and I are lifelong friends, and the pandemic became the push we needed to do this endeavor together.”
The Women of ProsperUs Detroit
As we close out Women’s History Month, we want to showcase and celebrate the amazing women on our team who make much of the work we do possible! (6 out of 9 team members are women at ProsperUs!)
Katrina Anderson, CommodiTeas I Women’s History Month 2022
CommodiTeas began out of a community desire for tea and teaware that suited the aesthetic and lifestyle of Katrina Anderson’s family members.
