--- description: The pop icon is giving money to a boxing gym and a charter school in her troubled hometown title: Madonna Donating to Detroit After ‘Inspiring’ Visit image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80ac6e6d53d8321f/69869a32cd804d818eccbc2c/ap597093162915.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [cities](/tag/cities/) ## cities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Madonna Donates to Detroit After ‘Inspiring’ Visit  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 2, 2014 1:34 AM CUT  Madonna to return to film directing. File photo dated 11/01/12 of Madonna who is to try her hand as a film director again, with a romantic tale set on an African island. Issue date: Wednesday March 26, 2014\. She is on board for the screen version of Ade: A Love Story, the debut novel by Rebecca Walker - the daughter of Alice Walker, who wrote The Colour Purple. The Queen of Pop's last directing effort was in 2011 with WE - a film based around the relationship between King Edward VIII and American divorcee Wallis Simpson, which also featured a contemporary romance. See PA story SHOWBIZ Madonna. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire URN:19394722 (Press Association via AP Images) Madonna to return to film directing. File photo dated 11/01/12 of Madonna who is to try her hand as a film director again, with a romantic tale set on an African island. Issue date: Wednesday March 26, 2014\. She is on board for the screen version of Ade: A Love Story, the debut novel by Rebecca Walker - the daughter of Alice Walker, who wrote The Colour Purple. The Queen of Pop's last directing effort was in 2011 with WE - a film based around the relationship between King Edward VIII and American divorcee Wallis Simpson, which also featured a contemporary romance. See PA story SHOWBIZ Madonna. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire URN:19394722 (Press Association via AP Images)Yui Mok—AP  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 2, 2014 1:34 AM CUT Madonna is [donating](http://www.madonna.com/news/title/detroits-homegirl-madonna-shows-her-city-big-love "undefined") money to support youth in her hometown of Detroit after being “inspired by the progress she’s witnessed thus far after a recent visit,” the pop star announced in a press release Tuesday. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee will donate funding toward a new facility for [Detroit’s](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2148171,00.html "undefined") Downtown Boxing Gym—where the kids, she says, have a 100% high school graduation rate—and the Detroit Achievement Academy charter school, which she’ll buy “new equipment, art and music supplies including speakers, iPods, iPads and Smart Boards for each classroom.” Racked by years of decay and a faltering economy, Detroit is currently undergoing the largest municipal [bankruptcy](http://nation.time.com/2013/12/03/pensions-arent-sacred-and-art-isnt-priceless-what-the-detroit-bankruptcy-ruling-means/ "undefined") in American history. 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