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Agency Endowments Offer Many Advantages

This story first appeared in the Winter 2018 REPORT Newsletter Building a long-term, revenue-producing endowment is one of the best ways a nonprofit organization can build a stable financial future for...

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Message From The President: Fostering Arts Engagement

This message first appeared in the Winter 2018 REPORT Newsletter From poetry to dance, music to visual and performing arts, thousands of lives are enriched, formed and changed thanks to...

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The New Tax Law And Charitable Giving Strategies for Year-End

This story first appeared in the Winter 2018 REPORT Newsletter Changes in allowable itemized deductions and an increase in the standard deduction in the new federal tax law mean taxpayers may...

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Detroit arts community gets $20M boost from Knight Foundation The Detroit Free Press

Calling Detroit the new Berlin for its thriving arts scene, Alberto Ibargüen, president, CEO and trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, announced Wednesday that the nonprofit will...

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2018 NEIdeas Winners Announced

New Economy Initiative Awards $260K to Small Businesses Across Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park – NEIdeas Program has Awarded $2.16M to 144 Businesses since 2014 In its fifth year, the...

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Measuring Outcomes for Boys and Men of Color

Five Southeast Michigan organizations that serve boys and men of color received support to evaluate their impact thanks to funding made available through the Community Foundation and the national capacity-building...

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With fate of food assistance unclear, we must step up for Michigan’s hungry The Detroit Free Press

Of the 1.4 million people in Michigan who struggle with hunger, nearly 400,000 are children. The toll that food insecurity takes on families — especially those with children and seniors...

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Microgrants help nonprofits build capacity, try new things Crain's Detroit

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan plans and gives away microgrants for journalism projects, leaders in the Brightmoor neighborhood of Detroit and several other focused areas. “The common thread around...

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More than $20 Million in Grants Awarded

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan announced more than $20 million in grants to organizations and initiatives primarily within southeast Michigan’s seven counties in areas including health, education, the arts,...

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Community Foundation to Fund Park Sustainability The Detroit News

The $100 million endowment from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation that is expected to bring new life along the west riverfront was heralded Wednesday as an investment that will...

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