STORIES


Stories of growth, stories of impact, stories from our community.

Three Students Recognized with $5,000 Awards Each Inaugural Headland Solar Community Scholarship Fund for Fowlerville High School

From left to right: Drew Vielbig, Cecilia Boscher, Maretta Finley, Landon Roberts, and Randy Ross As many students get ready to head off to college for the first time, three...

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Healthcare Providers Shifting Perceptions Impact Quality of Care

Attitudes toward people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and the medications to treat the disease have significantly changed over the last 20 years. In this dialogue, Dr. Jacob Manteuffel, Emergency...

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Harm Reduction: A Pathway to Prevention and Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Consistently high rates of opioid-related deaths have led hospitals to search for strategies that offer equitable access to comprehensive, stigma-free healthcare. “We have an epidemic of overdoses in the community...

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Summer 2023 REPORT

In the Summer 2023 Report, you'll read how the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan invests in projects that protect the environment, build climate resilience and support public spaces throughout our...

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Great Lakes Environmental Endowment Fund enhances our quality of life

The Great Lakes Environmental Endowment Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan helped to support the Skiff and Schooner program on the Detroit River. The program lets students from...

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Blueprints to build climate resilience link sun, neighbors

A Community Foundation grant will help Michigan Interfaith Power & Light partner with Pastor Calvin Glass, at Lord of Lords Ministries in Detroit, to create a model for places of...

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Grant transforms anglers into ‘citizen scientists’

A recent Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan grant helped the Ecology Center in Ann Arbor engage citizens in collecting data on contamination in the Huron and Rouge River watersheds. Angler...

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Community Foundation is a ‘force multiplier’ when it comes to public-private partnerships

Hudson-Webber Foundation President and CEO Melanca Clark, left, and Community Foundation President Richard (Ric) DeVore co-moderated a Mackinac Policy Conference panel about public-private partnerships. Panelists included Michigan Justice Fund Director...

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Joe Louis Greenway funders, partners entrust Community Foundation with $100M endowment

The 27.5-mile Joe Louis Greenway will connect the award-winning Detroit riverfront with 23 communities throughout Detroit, Highland Park, Hamtramck and Dearborn.  It was designed, with input from neighboring residents, to create...

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Q&A: Trustee Matt Cullen discusses Joe Louis Greenway, family philanthropy

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Board of Trustees member and JACK Entertainment Chairman Matt Cullen and his wife, Karen, have partnered with the Community Foundation to create a tradition of...

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