Meet the new faces with the Community Foundation staff
Since the new year, there have been several additions and changes to the CFSEM staff. We are glad to welcome several new faces and to celebrate other staff members who...
Mar 5th 2021
In General
CFSEM Youth Committee Members describe how they recommended $125,000 in racial equity grants
Watch a virtual interview with Gracie Grady and Akhila Mullapudi, two members of the Youth Advisory Committee of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. The students spoke with program officer...
Mar 5th 2021
In General
Seven Grants Made to Support Pontiac Community
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the Pontiac Funders Collaborative announce seven grants totaling $770,000 designed to help the community thrive – four to build capacity of key institutions...
Jan 7th 2021
In General,Press Release
During Community Foundation Week, Make an Impact In Your Own Backyard
In downtown Port Huron, there’s a small black-box theater called Enter Stage Right. They’re known for putting on a variety of intimate performances, ranging from Shakespeare to student theater workshops...
Nov 12th 2020
In General
Coronavirus in Jails and Prisons
How a collaboration between scholars, public health officials, and the Wayne County jail has kept COVID-19 in check; the California prison with the most coronavirus cases kept prisoners working despite...
Oct 15th 2020
In General
Community Foundation Honors Nonprofit Leadership and Program Excellence at Annual Meeting
The Community Foundation has announced that Robert G. Riney, President Health Care Operations and Chief Operating Officer for Henry Ford Health System was selected as the recipient of the 2020...
Sep 16th 2020
In General
Become an Election Worker
Election workers are democracy’s Most Valuable Players. Democracy is a team sport and every Election Day, thousands of Michigan citizens come together to assist voters and process ballots. In the...
Aug 28th 2020
In General
Information Security Notice
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan takes the protection and proper use of personal information very seriously. There was a data security incident involving Blackbaud, a Community Foundation vendor, that...
Aug 5th 2020
In General
Road to Recovery: The Community Foundation’s Response to COVID-19
This story originally appeared in our 2020 Yearbook When the coronavirus first arrived in southeast Michigan, it brought countless uncertainties along with it. We did not know how best to...
Jul 20th 2020
In General,REPORT Newsletter,Yearbook
Pontiac Nonprofit Capacity Building Grantees: 2020
The capacity building grant program focused on assisting nonprofit organizations to sustain and improve organizational effectiveness during the COVID-19 crisis. The Pontiac Funders Collaborative made 18 grants up to $10,000...
Jun 24th 2020
In General