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

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The 2024 Joy Project will support 6 participants in creating a native garden space, creating a Sewing Lab, and completing interior painting and mural projects to support the continued success of Johnson-Rivera House’s cultivation of a QTBIPOC safe space at the ICC. 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?

a $1k stipend each for 6 project participants: $6,000

planting a new garden behind the house: $1,500

Sewing Lab materials & tools: $350

food & supplies for project participants: $300

wall paint for new house murals & art: $200

supplies for an event to celebrate the project: $150

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.