Photo: The Detroit Economic Club Scholarship Fund is among 61 scholarship funds that the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan manages. Detroit Economic Club President and CEO Steve Grigorian presents Louisa, whose last name has been withheld for privacy, with one of the fund’s annual scholarship awards on June 8. She plans to attend the University of Michigan to pursue a career as a neurologist and medical researcher. 

Since 1990, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan has consistently turned donor generosity into direct support for the students of our region through its scholarship program. 

The Community Foundation has awarded more than $7 million in scholarships, with 61 active funds, and more than 2,700 scholarships in total. It manages more than $22.5 million worth of scholarship assets.  

The scholarship program supports a wide range of students, including those pursuing bachelor’s degrees and trades training, those with average grades but who serve as community leaders, and those who have overcome adversity to achieve academic excellence. 

One example is the Detroit Economic Club Scholarship Fund, which has awarded $436,000 across 218 scholarships of $2,000 each since 1994. Its purpose is to help students from Detroit and Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties in pursuing their undergraduate degrees. 

If you would like to support extraordinary young people in our region, please contact our Donor Services team at [email protected] to learn how we can work together.

This story originally appeared in our Fall/Winter 2026 REPORT Newsletter