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Community
Foundation
for
Southeast
Michigan
Announces
More
Than $20
Million
in
Grants
DETROIT
– The
Community
Foundation
for
Southeast
Michigan
announced
more
than $20
million
in
grants
to
organizations
and
initiatives
primarily
within
southeast
Michigan’s
seven
counties
in areas
including
health,
education,
the
arts,
and
housing
and
human
services.
“Our
goal is
to
improve
the
quality
of life
for all
of the
residents
in
Southeast
Michigan,”
said
Mariam
C.
Noland,
President,
Community
Foundation
for
Southeast
Michigan.
“We
accomplish
this by
partnering
with
organizations
and
leveraging
our
networks,
expertise,
resources,
and
leadership.”
Grants
announced
include:
•
$225,000
over two
years to
the
University
Musical
Society
for the
expansion
of a
partnership
with the
Michigan
Opera
Theater
to offer
dance
performances
and
programs
in
Southeast
Michigan.
The
partnership
for the
expansion
will
bring to
Detroit
acclaimed
dance
companies
and
create
engagement
opportunities
for
existing
and new
dance
patrons.
•
$50,000
to the
Grosse
Pointe
War
Memorial
to fund
Arts at
the
Alger
programming
at the
Patriot
Theater,
including
community-focused
arts
events
and live
performances.
The
Alger
House
(circa
1910) is
a
designated
Michigan
State
Historic
Site and
is
listed
on the
National
Register
of
Historic
Places.
•
$30,000
to the
Michigan
History
Foundation
to
research,
write,
and
publish
an
educational
guidebook
about
President
Ulysses
S.
Grant’s
life and
impact
on
Detroit.
The
Detroit
home of
Ulysses
S. and
Julia
Grant is
the only
publicly-owned
house of
a
president
in
Michigan.
Currently
located
at the
former
State
Fairgrounds
in
Detroit,
through
a
collaboration
between
the
Michigan
Department
of
Natural
Resources
the
Eastern
Market
Corp.,
the
Michigan
History
Center,
the
Michigan
History
Society,
and
Heritage
Michigan,
the
Grant
House
will be
moved
from its
current
location
to a
site
owned by
the
Eastern
Market
Corp.
•
$70,000
over two
years to
Gleaners
Community
Food
Bank,
Inc. to
evaluate
the
impact
of
providing
nutritious
food to
low-income
participants
in the
Diabetes
Prevention
Program
(DPP), a
division
of the
Michigan
National
Kidney
Foundation
of
Michigan.
The
project
will
capitalize
on
Gleaners’
knowledge
of
cost-effective
food
procurement
and
delivery,
including
just-in-time
delivery
to allow
for
greater
varieties
and
quantities
of
healthy
food.
The work
will be
focused
in urban
areas
including
Detroit,
Pontiac,
and
Inkster.
•
$70,000
to the
Groundwork
Center
for
Resilient
Communities
Inc. to
expand a
project
that
empowers
schools
to
purchase
locally
grown
food.
Groundwork’s
largest
farm-to-school
program,
10 Cents
a Meal
for
School
Kids &
Farms,
provides
matching
funds
for
schools
to
purchase
Michigan-grown
fruits
and
vegetables.
The goal
of 10
Cents is
to
increase
children’s
access
to
healthy,
local
foods,
while
building
markets
for
farms
and
local
food
economies
•
$75,000
to the
Regents
of the
University
of
Michigan
to
provide
a
comprehensive
behavioral
health
care
strategy
for all
students
within
the
Detroit
Public
Schools
Community
District.
The
grant
will
fund a
partnership
between
Detroit
Public
Schools
and
Transforming
Research
into
Practice
to
Improve
the
Lives of
Students
(TRAILS),
which
was
developed
by the
Flinn
Foundation.
•
$65,000
to
Alliance
for
Housing,
Oakland
County’s
Continuum
of Care
to pilot
a
program
providing
free
legal
services
for
homeless
individuals
in
Oakland
County
in a
partnership
with
Street
Democracy.
Program
goals
include:
offering
treatment
instead
of
punishment
for
persons
experiencing
homelessness,
poverty,
or
disability;
reducing
the
impact
of
aggressive
sentencing
and
collection
practices
in
Oakland
County
against
the
poor;
and
providing
a
framework
for all
district
courts
to
become
specialty
courts
that can
adapt
and
mobilize
to
address
individuals’
specific
needs.
•
$70,000
over two
years to
the
Maurice
& Jane
Sugar
Law
Center
for
Economic
and
Social
Justice
to
create
community-based
workshops
on
employee
rights
for
individuals
entering
or
reentering
the
workforce.
The
project
seeks to
educate
community
members
and help
them
develop
realistic
and
meaningful
workplace
expectations.
It will
give
workers
the
confidence
and the
knowledge
they
need to
advocate
on their
own
behalf
in an
informed
manner,
without
confrontation
or the
need to
invoke
legal
processes.
The
primary
focus
will be
in
Wayne,
Macomb,
Oakland
and
Monroe
counties.
•
$60,000
to the
Grandmont/Rosedale
Development
Corporation
(GRDC),
to
implement
and
document
the
process
of
creative
placemaking
projects
in the
Grandmont/Rosedale
Community.
GRDC has
implemented
a number
of
creative
placemaking
projects
in the
past,
including
installing
pocket
parks on
Grand
River,
mural-painting,
and
neighborhood
pocket
park
renovation,
in
addition
to
managing
a
successful
farmers’
market.
Current
of
grants
also
includes
nearly
half a
million
dollars
to
children
and
youth
initiatives
through
the
Detroit
Auto
Dealers
Association
Charitable
Foundation
Fund,
New
Economy
Initiative
grants
and
other
special
grant
programs.
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