{"id":31256,"date":"2015-02-28T23:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brittanystallworth\/?p=23"},"modified":"2015-02-28T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:00:58","slug":"3-reasons-why-detroit-needs-the-future-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/3-reasons-why-detroit-needs-the-future-project\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Why Detroit Needs The Future Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we finished doing a challenge with The Future Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping youth build their dreams and make them reality. I was so impressed with the amount of talent and passion that the students in The Future Project had. Here are 3 reasons why Detroit needs The Future Project:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. The youth in Detroit don&#8217;t need a handout, they need a hand-up.<\/p>\n<p>-That is exactly what The Future Project provides! A platform for students to use their creativity to make their own situations better!<\/p>\n<p>2. Diversity. Diversity. Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>-Many of the students are Black. HOWEVER, they are not a monolith. They have diverse passions, backgrounds, and working styles. The Future Project nurtures all of them.<\/p>\n<p>3. Where there is no vision, people perish.<\/p>\n<p>Dreaming must be encouraged to keep the spirit of Detroit alive. The Future Projects teaches students the power of positive thinking, affirmations, and dreaming with a purpose!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #181818\">\u201cIt&#8217;s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.\u201d<\/span>&#8211; Paulo Coelho, <em>The Alchemist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we finished doing a challenge with The Future Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping youth build their dreams and make them reality. I was so impressed with the amount of talent and passion that the students in The Future Project had. Here are 3 reasons why Detroit needs The Future Project: &nbsp; 1. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}