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Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Awards $250,000 in grants from Three New Funds Honoring Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.

DETROIT – Fourteen southeast Michigan organizations received nearly $250,000 in grants from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan from three new permanent funds that honor the legacy of Ralph C....

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Catapult: Funding and Coaching Emerging Nonprofits

Being part of launching the Catapult program of the Community Foundation has been both exciting and challenging – perhaps for all the right reasons. Exciting because we’re engaging up- and-coming...

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New Food Access Funding Opportunity Michigan State University

On March 30, the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (CFSEM) announced a new funding and educational initiative to support healthy food access for children and seniors. Efforts to increase access...

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Southeast Michigan Early Childhood Funders Collaborative Awards $1.4 Million in Detroit Head Start Innovation Fund Grants

Funding prioritizes attracting, training and retaining additional Head Start teachers to city’s 65 centers DETROIT – The Southeast Michigan Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, a group of funders working together to...

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Healthy Food Connect: Kicking it off

Get two hundred passionate people in a room and there will be sparks. On March 30, 2016, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan hosted the Healthy Food Connect Kickoff event...

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New Economy Initiative Adds Senior Program Officer and Communications Officer to Staff

Detroit – The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan has announced the appointment of new two new staff members to the New Economy Initiative (NEI). Maria LaLonde has joined the the...

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$2M in Detroit Head Start funds will support doulas, preschool, data collection Crain's Detroit

The first grants from the $4.5 million Detroit Head Start Early Childhood Innovation Fund will support the launch of a common data collection effort to identify best practices among five...

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Detroit Head Start Early Childhood Innovation Fund Awards Nearly $2 Million in Grants

DETROIT— The Detroit Head Start Early Childhood Innovation Fund announced the awarding of nearly $2 million in grants to Head Start providers in Detroit during a news conference today at...

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Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Awarded More Than $56 Million in Grants to Nonprofits in 2015

Grants Support Diverse Programs Benefitting Seven-County Region and Beyond Detroit – The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan announced that it awarded more than $56 million through more than 3,700 grants to...

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Detroit’s ‘Grand Bargain’ and the Partnership that Propelled It Independent Sector

“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.” So Winston Churchill commented when Nazi leader Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland to pursue peace...

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