Joy Project 2025 @ ICC's Johnson-Rivera House

Please join us in celebrating QTBIPOC joy with the third annual Joy Project at the Inter-Cooperative Council's Johnson-Rivera House!

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The 2025 Joy Project will support 4-6 participants in rejuvenation through art and play and the creation of a native landscape that represents the cultivation of home and political foundation. The project will be 8 weeks long during the summer, and participants will live and cooperate together in the house for its duration.

WHERE WILL YOUR DONATION GO?

Planting new native front and side gardens

Entrance and transportation costs for QTBIPOC-centered events in the metro Detroit area

Food & supplies for project participants

Supplies for an event to celebrate the completion of the project

A small stipend for each participant

ABOUT ICC/JOHNSON-RIVERA HOUSE

The Inter-Cooperative Council is a 503(c) nonprofit housing cooperative. We are based in Ann Arbor, MI and most of our members are students at local colleges and universities. The ICC has been providing affordable, equitable and community-oriented housing for over 80 years.

Johnson-Rivera House is 1 of 16 houses available for members of the ICC to live in, and is themed in honor of QTBIPOC (queer, trans, black, indigenous people of color) folk. The house is meant to serve as a safe, inviting space for queer co-opers of color, especially acknowledging the ways in which the ICC and the cooperative movement at large has failed to make space and honor them historically. The house is based on the Gens Collective article from 2017 that emphasizes the importance of spaces exclusively for the QT & BIPOC community.