Winners of NEIdeas
The New Economy Initiative recently announced the winners of the fourth annual business challenge, known as NEIdeas. Nearly 700 local business owners from Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park applied for...
Nov 21st 2017
Inviting All Voices To The Table
On October 4, 2017, more than 2,000 residents of southeast Michigan participated in On the Table, a new initiative of the Community Foundation. Over breakfast, lunch, snacks, or dinner, people...
Nov 21st 2017
A Message From The President: Fall 2017
A little over three years ago, Detroit was just beginning to emerge from this country’s largest municipal bankruptcy settlement, Michigan’s unemployment rate was over 7 percent, and the Dow Jones...
Nov 21st 2017
Building Brightmoor Community Leaders
The nonprofit sector exists to build and support healthy, vibrant, and engaged communities. Therefore, it has become important to invest in the advancement of skills in employees of nonprofit organizations,...
Nov 21st 2017
Supporting Quality Journalism
Journalism gives people the information they need to make better decisions about their livelihoods. When citizens are more informed, they are better able to enact change in their community and...
Nov 21st 2017
Catapult Pitch Competition 2017
The Community Foundation created Catapult to encourage civic engagement among young entrepreneurs throughout southeast Michigan. To learn about the community and support change, Catapult volunteers facilitated a small grants program...
Oct 24th 2017
Investing In Youth
The Community Foundation believes the future of this region rests on developing children into fully capable adults. That is why we have invested in youth for more than 30 years...
Sep 19th 2017
Further Connecting With Our Community
On the Table is a new Community Foundation investment in the future of young people. The Foundation is encouraging residents from across the region to pause from their daily activities...
Sep 19th 2017
Russell G. Mawby Award
Congratulations to Joseph L. Hudson Jr., who received the Russell Mawby Award at the recent Governor’s Service Awards ceremony. Gov. Rick Snyder presented the state’s highest award for philanthropy to...
Sep 19th 2017
Sep 19th 2017