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KICK receives $180,000 grant

DETROIT-
KICK, The Agency for LGBT African Americans, is celebrating a $180,000 grant from the Arcus Foundation. KICK is using the money to hire staff, expand programming and move to a new space in Detroit's Tech Town.
Longtime volunteer Curtis Lipscomb was hired as executive director in January. Lipscomb said the grant will help "jump start" KICK, which has survived since 2003 off of smaller donations. "This will allow us to work with more established LGBT nonprofits, locally and nationally," he said, "and to do more social justice work."
KICK already has three well-established programs serving the Detroit area, and Lipscomb said it is working on adding two new programs soon.
"We knew that we would have to have a place to do these programs. It's one thing to expand, but we had to establish a place to do them," Lipscomb said about KICK's new space, located in the Graphics Arts Loft at 41 Burroughs St. "We wanted to stay in a very vital part of the city. What's great about Tech Town is it's an identifiable area, a great neighborhood and hub of entrepreneurial thinkers. With light rail being developed (on Woodward Ave., near the new building), we'll be right in an area where there will be a lot of traffic." KICK plans to move in March 1.

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