Michigan Federation for Children and Families This cross-team grant between the Human Services and Detroit Programs will support the Michigan Federation for Children and Families with integrating a racial equity-centered 2Gen approach into its Family Preservation Network. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2020 Location Program Detroit, Human Services Focus Area Building a More Robust Human Services Field
The New School This cross team grant with the Detroit Program will support our partnership with the New School’s Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification, and Political Economy (to develop field building tools to assist the human services sector with generating proposed recommendations to inform an economic rights antiracist and antisexist agenda to advance social and economic mobility. View Website Amount $659,000 Year 2020 Location New York, New York Program Detroit, Human Services Focus Area Building a More Robust Human Services Field
ideas42 The purpose of this cross-team with the Detroit Program grant is to collaborate with community partners in Detroit to design and implement behaviorally informed narrative change interventions aimed at shifting deleterious beliefs and attitudes about poverty and social policy. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2020 Location New York, New York Program Detroit, Human Services Focus Area Developing Supportive, Aligned Public Policy
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation The purpose of this cross-team grant with the Detroit Program to The Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation is to support the city of St. Paul’s Mayor’s office to implement its People’s Prosperity Guaranteed Income (PPGI) demonstration project. View Website Amount $275,000 Year 2020 Location Program Detroit, Human Services Focus Area
Michigan College Access Network This financial amendment will enable MCAN to fiscally sponsor an effort to ensure that Michiganders living with low incomes and Michiganders of color receive outreach about the Futures for Frontliners program, which supports essential workers by providing a tuition-free path to gaining skills for high-demand careers. View Website Amount $55,000 Year 2020 Location Lansing, Michigan Program Detroit, Education Focus Area Urban Pathways to College
Rootoftwo, LLC. This project grant for Rootofto will allow them to conduct a participatory research project to explore the characteristics, assets and pre-conditions of cultural ecosystems in Detroit, Memphis and New Orleans to inform strategies and identify opportunities for recovery and renewal centered on racial equity, arts and community development. View Website Amount $205,000 Year 2020 Location Ann Arbor, MI Program Arts & Culture, Detroit Focus Area
Center for Community Progress This cross-team project grant supports the Center for Community Progress’ efforts to increase equitable land and housing policy collaboration throughout the state of Michigan and integration of Creative Placemaking practices across its national network. View Website Amount $225,000 Year 2020 Location Flint, Mich. Program Arts & Culture, Detroit Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Midtown Detroit Inc. This grant will support Midtown Detroit, Inc. to manage the Midtown Cultural Connections Project and serve as the lead organization for the development of a comprehensive design framework for Detroit's Cultural Center. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area
Community Reinvestment Fund This grant, in conjunction with a $3 million program-related 9nvestment, provides funding to Community Reinvestment Fund to make CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) resources accessible to Detroit nonprofits to help them weather the impacts of COVID-19. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2020 Location Minneapolis, Minnesota Program Detroit, Social Investment Practice Focus Area
Community Health and Social Services Center This grant provides project support to Community Health and Social Services Center (CHASS) as part of a cohort of three Southwest Detroit-based organizations focused on health equity efforts through the Neighborhood Solutions for Health Equity initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, MI Program Detroit, Health Focus Area
Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc. This grant provides project support to Urban Neighborhood Initiatives as part of a cohort of three Southwest Detroit-based organizations focused on health equity efforts through the Neighborhood Solutions for Health Equity initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit, Health Focus Area
Detroit Hispanic Development Corp. This grant provides project support to the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation as part of a cohort of three Southwest Detroit-based organizations focused on health equity efforts through the Neighborhood Solutions for Health Equity initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit, Health Focus Area
Detroit Justice Center Geography Served: Detroit Project: This grant provides general operating funds to the Detroit Justice Center to participate in national and place-based networks of racial justice organizations, as well as to scale its legal services, support community-driven solutions to restorative justice and economic equity, and continue building a network of community members to support transforming the criminal punishment system and investing in proactive safety and well-being. View Website Amount $225,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, MI Program Detroit Focus Area
Detroit Strategic Framework, Inc. Geography Served: Detroit Project: This grant provides general operating and programmatic support to Detroit Strategic Framework, Inc., the independent nonprofit organization that is the home for the Detroit Future City Implementation Office and its Center for Equity, Engagement and Research. View Website Amount $1,500,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area Equitable Community Development
Grants Awarded Geography Served: Detroit Project: This grant provides general operating support to Detroit Life is Valuable Every Day (DLIVE) to participate in a national and place-based network of racial justice organizations as well as to develop and deliver innovative, health-centered, evidence-based solutions to reduce trauma recidivism and prevent retaliatory violence and incarceration. Amount $275,000 Year 2020 Location Program Detroit Focus Area Nonprofit Capacity Building and Leadership Development
Live6 Alliance Geography Served: Detroit Project: This grant renews project support for Live6 initiatives that advance opportunity and justice for communities of color in the Livernois-McNichols district in northwest Detroit, with a particular focus on supporting small businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color, and community safety initiatives. View Website Amount $350,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area Coordinated Investments and Technical Assistance
Enterprise Community Partners Inc. Geography Served: Detroit Project: This grant provides support to Enterprise Community Partners for a CDO (Community Development Organization) Fund that will provide operating support to to provide operating support to approximately two dozen Detroit community development organizations. View Website Amount $684,500 Year 2020 Location Columbia, Maryland Program Detroit Focus Area Equitable Community Development
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Geography Served: Detroit Project: This grant supports the Michigan Justice Fund, a collaborative fund that supports community-driven solutions to criminal justice reform, housed at the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan. View Website Amount $1,000,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area
Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion Geography Served: Detroit Project: This grant provides general operating support to the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion to bolster their Race2Equity initiative and support their participation in a racial justice advisory table in Detroit. View Website Amount $225,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area
Theaster Gates Studio Geography Served: Detroit Project: This grant provides project support for Theaster Gates Studio to serve as an advisory consultant for the Marygrove campus master planning process as the Marygrove Conservancy works to redevelop the Marygrove campus as p-20 educational campus with community-based arts and cultural programming, View Website Amount $225,000 Year 2020 Location Chicago, IL Program Detroit Focus Area Arts and Culture Ecosystem