Agency Endowment Offers Many Advantages
Building a Stable Financial Future Building a long-term, revenue-producing endowment is one of the best ways a nonprofit organization can build a stable financial future for their work. That’s why...
Sep 22nd 2014
Fostering Innovation in Detroit Head Start Programs
A One-of-a-Kind Collaboration A one-of-a-kind collaboration among eight regional foundations, housed at the Community Foundation, will grant more than $4 million over two years to support high quality Head Start...
Sep 22nd 2014
Making Investments Across The Region
Helping Donors Do the Most Good with Their Charitable Dollars More than $50 million in grants are made by the Community Foundation each year to nonprofit organizations throughout Wayne, Oakland,...
Sep 22nd 2014
Building Endowment
The recent economic upturn has made it possible for more nonprofits to prioritize their long-term financial destinies by building endowment with the Community Foundation. A total of 189 organizations are working...
Jul 14th 2014
Building High-Tech Careers
Support from the Community Foundation helped Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and the University of Michigan’s Lurie Nanofabrication Facility in Ann Arbor create the first-of-its-kind nanotechnology and microsystems technician training and...
Jul 14th 2014
Promoting Healthy Food
The Double Up Food Bucks program has become the national model for increasing access to healthy food among low-income families. The 2014 federal Farm Bill allocates millions of dollars...
Jul 14th 2014
Teaching The Hearing Impaired
Madonna University in Livonia offers the state’s only bachelor of arts degree in sign language studies. A grant from the Community Foundation is helping the school use its unique expertise to...
Jul 14th 2014
Jewish Fund Commits $150k to Early Childhood Education
Joins Multi-Foundation Initiative Supporting Detroit Head Start Programs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DETROIT—The Jewish Fund has committed $150,000 over two years to support early childhood education in Detroit as part of the...
Jun 11th 2014
In Press Release
Early Childhood Education in Detroit Gets $4.5 Million Boost WDET
Sharnita Johnson, program officer at the Kellogg Foundation; Ann Kalass, CEO at Starfish Family Services and Jeffrey Capizzano, president of the Policy Equity Group join Craig for a panel discussion...
Apr 16th 2014
In In The News
Heidelberg Project Received Grant To Expand Education, Community Development
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Makes Grant for Growth and Program Expansion of Detroit’s Heidelberg Project FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DETROIT—The Heidelberg Project is pleased to announce that the Community...
Jan 22nd 2014
In Press Release