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Empowerment Plan : ウィキペディア英語版 | Empowerment Plan The Empowerment Plan is an American humanitarian organization. The organization works to address homelessness by providing jobs to homeless women, and by manufacturing a coat that is given to homeless individuals in need. Detroit, Michigan. ==Background== The Empowerment Plan was established as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation in 2011, by Veronika Scott, who was a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Beginning as a school project, Scott initially designed the innovative sleeping bag coat to address the one in 42 Detroit residents that are homeless. This is particularly difficult in a city that experiences below freezing temperatures throughout the winter months. Scott's Detroit Empowerment project has the dual purpose of making warm, durable coats for the homeless population, while also helping to train and employ them. With support from the community and certain key organizations, Scott turned her school project into a fully viable nonprofit business model. More than ten homeless women have been trained and employed in the production of the coat. Formerly homeless women are recruited through local shelters and placed in housing through local nonprofit partners. Over 2,000 coats have been made and donated locally, nationally, and via international disaster aid relief. The goal is to grow and evolve the company over time, with the support of the Detroit community, shelters, foundations, and local brands with a 'care-and-share' mission.
Where else in the world, but Detroit? It's the Wild West of Creativity. If our job that we want isn't here, and isn't being offered, we make it here for ourselves. We can really drastically change our environment and the community around us, and here in Detroit, we're doing that all the time. Veronika Scott, via TEDx Detroit
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