Entrepreneurial thinkers from across southeast Michigan who have the capacity and desire to improve greater Detroit come together at The Collaborative Group.
The Collaborative Group is a new organization dedicated to spurring business and philanthropic development, economic growth, job creation, and overall prosperity in greater Detroit.
The Collaborative Group creates a dynamic environment for personal and professional development that fosters interaction between longtime and up-and-coming business and community leaders.
Contributing intellectual capital to Greater Detroit.
Activities bring together a variety of people, combine networks, and unite diversity and expertise in a way that best maximizes everyone's time and resources.
Members will connect on personal, professional and philanthropic initiatives brought through the group's proposal process -- sharing insights and participating in brainstorming sessions and discussions.
Speaker series, round tables, panel discussions, and special events bring in top thought leaders to discuss the most pressing regional issues.
WWJ radio interview: "Challenge Detroit is an initiative coming out of The Collaborative Group, an organization that brings together entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinkers." (Vickie Thomas, September 2, 2011)
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CBS Detroit News: "The effort... was cooked up at Doyle Mosher's Collaborative Group, a Birmingham business idea generation center that offers presentations by business leaders." (Matt Rousch, September 2, 2011)
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Downtown Publications: "Doyle Mosher, a born innovator, [has] a passion for building his community, both literally and figuratively." (Katey Meisner, June 29, 2011)
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Crain's Detroit Business: "This group has a history of getting things done, and Challenge Detroit is happening only because of The Collaborative." (Nancy Kaffer, April 3, 2011)
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WJR radio interview: "It does take job opportunities and lifestyle to attract young people to a city, but beyond that I think it takes an opportunity to give back to the community. That's something that Detroit offers that really differentiates us from other cities." (Deirdre Greene Groves, The PNC Roundtable with Paul W. Smith and Riv DeVore, April 2011)
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WJR radio interview: "There are young people... intent on making this area grow [including] Deirdre Greene Groves, Executive Director of The Collaborative Group, which is trying to bring all of this intellectual capital together." (Frank Beckman, February 12, 2010)
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Crain's Detroit Business: "As our region struggles to reinvent itself, The Collaborative Group brings together the region's top talent to nurture entrepreneurial ideas and continue to grow our region's entrepreneurial roots." (Deirdre Greene Groves, December 13, 2009)
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Metromode Media: "A new Birmingham-based nonprofit called the Collaborative Group launched in early October with the idea of collecting a group of the area's leading thinkers and entrepreneurs to spur economic development in the region." (Michelle Martinez, October 22, 2009)
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The Detroit News: "A charitably minded collection of entrepreneurs, artists, doctors, lawyers and a college president or two who no longer take the city's survival -- or their own -- for granted." (Laura Berman, October 8, 2009)
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