Grant Highlights
Detroit
Communities in Schools connects community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school, and prepare for life. Assisted by this grant, the organization is launching the Detroit pilot of a full-service community school that gives students the extracurricular support they need to succeed in school.
Since its founding in 1997, Community Development Advocates of Detroit has served as the trade association for nonprofit community-development organizations that share a commitment to promoting community-based sustainable development grounded in grassroots participation and empowerment. With this grant support, the association is engaging its members and stakeholders in an in-depth effort to reform and enhance the community-development industry within the city of Detroit.
The voluntary association comprises nearly 400 community-development corporations, individuals, and organizations working to promote and expand community-based housing and economic development across Michigan. With grant assistance, the association is launching a public education campaign on foreclosure issues and strengthening Michigan’s anti-predatory lending policies and homeowner protections.
The professional association provides research, advocacy, marketing, and professional-development services to nonprofit arts and culture organizations in a seven-county area. This two-year grant for general operating support strengthens the alliance’s capability to help these local organizations thrive and be sustainable community assets.
The agency, now called Michigan Community Resources, delivers free legal resources to community-based nonprofits that serve Detroit residents. This two-year grant enables its collaborative Detroit Vacant Property Campaign to provide block clubs and neighborhood associations with technical assistance and mini-grants to help them secure, maintain, beautify, and monitor foreclosed and unoccupied homes.
The national intermediary provides financial and technical assistance to communities to develop permanent supportive housing for people who are homeless because of unemployment and chronic health issues. This three-year grant supports the metropolitan Detroit office’s launch of a new initiative to provide 50 people with permanent homes and an array of supportive services.
The council is the fiscal agent for the new Michigan Office of Urban and Metropolitan Initiatives established by Gov. Rick Snyder. This two-year grant assists the office in developing and delivering a policy agenda to revitalize Michigan’s major cities and strengthen their economies.
The professional association provides research, advocacy, marketing, and professional-development services to nonprofit arts and culture organizations in a seven-county area. This two-year grant for general operating support strengthens the alliance’s capability to help these local organizations thrive and be sustainable community assets.
Demos is a nonpartisan, public-policy research and advocacy organization that anchors the Building Movement Project, which has worked in Detroit to bolster the capability of neighborhood groups to address systemic issues. With this three-year grant, the project is establishing community-engagement labs in two Detroit neighborhoods to identify emerging leaders and increase resident participation.
The agency offers elderly and disabled residents and their family caregivers a spectrum of services, ranging from adult day care and home-delivered meals to legal services and transportation. A two-year grant funds the launch of the Senior Solutions Home Repair Program, which serves seniors in three Detroit neighborhoods.