Earlier this month, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan hosted the Storytelling Summit, the second in a five-part education series to help Healthy Food Connect grantees and other community actors...
YAC is a one-of-a-kind experience. A leading youth organization in Detroit, YAC is able to pull together many different people of various races, nationalities, beliefs, mindsets, personalities, and most importantly,...
Looking at 2016 I’ll be honest. 2016 was not an easy year – not for the local community or for the nation. The violence, the ongoing racism, the negative messages...
For over 20 years, youth in every county of Michigan have had a centralized access point to philanthropy – this vehicle has been community foundations. Through a challenge grant from...
Having worked with and for non-profit organizations for all of my career to date, it was quite an opportunity to be able to come to “the other side” and make...
I was the first in my family to go to college. I started at a community college, but wasn’t able to afford finishing my bachelor’s degree until several years later...
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and Crain’s Detroit Business have agreed to establish the “Detroit Homecoming Fund” as a means for attendees of Homecoming to join together to support...
In southern Louisiana, more than 20 inches of rain fell over the past weekend of August 12-14, 2016, causing historic flooding. The National Weather Service has posted flood warnings through...
(This piece was originally published in the Detroit Free Press May 1, 2016. Posted here with permission.) A decade ago, a railroad under Lafayette and Jefferson roads, just west of...