FoodPlus|Detroit

FoodPLUS|Detroit at the CHOICES conference

The upcoming seven-week “Worldwide Open Workshop” series sponsored by the MSU Global Innoversity will introduce five critical operating principles that make up an implementation set for generating innovation projects in complex metropolitan settings. learn about the workshop and coaching series, coming March 18.

Choose the engagement relationship best suited for you based on your current capacity and growth goals. Join as a partner, sponsor, alliance, or affiliate. Change the relationship as your work evolves. Go to the ‘Join Us’ page for information.

How does the FoodPLUS|Detroit work get done? The coalition is powered by its engagers who operate as a collaborative work system comprised of an inaugural board of directors, a distributed leadership team, four operations work groups and six project teams. Learn more about how we’re organized and how to join the work.

Connect with other individuals, organizations and project teams in the coalition through a technology-based platform that enables communications, and sharing information, knowledge and resources. Get what you need to accelerate your work.

Networked and integrated resources | Knowledge sharing |Collective Innovation | Spaces for experimentation, research, innovation, demonstration | Multi-stakeholder co-design, co-creation and co-learning | Project Portfolio Management to cultivate and incubate success | Operating and Guiding principles proven to form the foundation for innovation and connected value development

You’ve begun well. What’s Next? What are your plans for “Scaling Up” and “Scaling Smart?” How well does your work align with the Detroit Future City Strategic Framework? How close are you to complying with the Urban Ag Ordinance? How would greater access to knowledge, resources and opportunities change the trajectory of your work?

By design the table seats a diverse group of people from community and societal organizations, business and industry, knowledge institutions and government units/agencies – ALL working for a unified purpose – enabling and accelerating innovative projects that lead to sustainable agriculture, economic development and social equity/justice in, around and for Detroit. There’s room at the table. Join us.

How can we use innovation, co-creation, resource networking and knowledge sharing to accelerate the good food works we are doing or envision doing in Metropolitan Detroit? Members of the Detroit community, government, higher education institutions and businesses came together on Sept. 24, 2013, for a vibrant discussion of the potential impact of FoodPLUS|Detroit at the organization’s first annual convening.