Grant Highlights
The community development financial institution channels private capital into communities to support affordable housing and community facilities such as child care centers, health clinics, and shelters. This grant creates the Los Angeles County Housing Innovation Fund, a $60 million high-risk fund designed to jump-start the development of affordable housing.
In response to the economic crisis, our trustees approved one-time operating support grants in 2009 and 2010 to recent grant recipients for safety-net services such as food, shelter, and other emergency assistance. This support helped direct-service organizations on the front line cover funding gaps caused by the economic crisis.
The nonprofit organization, owned by the six Minnesota synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, offers adoption, financial, refuge, counseling, housing, and other services to children, youth, families, seniors, and disabled and disadvantaged clients at 325 locations around the state. Funding strengthens programs focused on financial counseling, senior nutrition, homeless youth, and housing services.
As Northern Ireland’s only professional theater, Lyric plays a crucial role in creating a vibrant, healthy, tolerant society through its public performances, arts-based educational programs, youth workshops, and community partnerships. With this challenge grant, the organization is constructing a new performance and education facility housing a 392-seat theater, classrooms, and rehearsal space.
M-1 RAIL (Regional Area Initial Link) is a nonprofit, public/private partnership of Detroit business and civic leaders formed in 2008 to promote economic development and advance light-rail transit in Detroit. This five-year grant helps to fund engineering, planning, construction, and operation of a 3.4-mile light-rail line along Woodward Avenue, connecting the Woodward corridor from the riverfront to the New Center area.
This artists residency program sponsors residencies for 250 literary, visual, and performing artists annually on its 450-acre estate. This grant is being used to renovate and expand the colony’s library and media center and to establish a building-reserves fund.
Macomb is one of the nation’s leading community colleges and serves more than 48,000 students annually. Assisted by this grant, the college is leading a collaborative project with Data Driven Detroit and Macomb County government to analyze data from the 2010 U.S. Census and identify demographic changes and trends in the county.
Thousands of students earn college degrees or receive advanced training at Macomb, the largest grantor of associate degrees in the state and ranked consistently among the top 2 percent of community colleges nationally. This five-year grant supports the college’s participation in Achieving the Dream, a multiyear initiative to improve success and outcomes for students attending community colleges.
Established in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the nonprofit is rebuilding 150 affordable, green, storm-resistant homes in New Orleans’ devastated Lower Ninth Ward to help former residents resettle their neighborhood and rebuild their lives. This grant enables Make It Right to develop and refine a strategic plan to guide its future direction, governance, and expansion.
Established in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the nonprofit is rebuilding 150 affordable, green, storm-resistant homes in New Orleans’ devastated Lower Ninth Ward to help former residents resettle their neighborhood and rebuild their lives. This grant enables Make It Right to develop and refine a strategic plan to guide its future direction, governance, and expansion.