Highlights: Support a collaborative effort to develop a public health action plan in southwest Detroit to raise public knowledge and engagement on the social and health effects of pollution Help strengthen Detroit’s local food system by streamlining licensing and permitting for food operations and creating other policies to help Detroit capture a larger local share...
New grants will: Measure the social and ecological impacts of neighborhood-based green infrastructure installed on vacant lots in Detroit, and the proportional impact of the Detroit River system on toxic algae in western Lake Erie, through two translational research projects by the University of Michigan Water Center. Click here for a press release and video by UM...
New grants will achieve: Critical research and binational collaboration with an emphasis on eliminating toxic algae in the Western Lake Erie Basin. Creation of a Great Lakes Bureau through Detroit Public Television and its partners. Incorporation of sustainability (triple bottom line) principles and practices into certain projects of the Motor City Match program. Fusion of...
One of our goals is to promote green infrastructure as a way to beautify vacant land and neighborhoods in the city while eliminating untreated sewage discharges into the Detroit River and improving resiliency and quality of life. Seven grants totaling $1.7 million will support efforts to leverage federal and private investment and engage adults and...
December 2014 Grants Announcement Click Here and Grants List Click Here September 2014 Grants Announcement Click Here and Grants List Click Here April and June 2014 Grants Announcement Click Here and Grants List Click Here
December 2013 Grants Announcement Click Here December 2013 Grants List Click Here June 2013 Grants Click Here March 2013 Grants Click Here and EBlast Click Here
The following are the quarterly grants announcements shared by the Foundation in 2012. December 2012 Grants Click Here and Press Release September 2012 Grants Click Here June 2012 Grants Click Here March 2012 Grants Click Here
In September 2011, the Foundation began to send quarterly email announcements of approved grants, a departure from most foundations’ standard practice of waiting to publish printed annual reports. December 2011 Grants Click Here September 2011 Grants Click Here