Our Grants
Our active grantees are listed below, updated monthly. We hope you will engage with and support these inspiring organizations.
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Annual giving numbers updated as of 12/31/24. New grants made in 2025 are added each month and shown below. Please note that we cannot accept unsolicited grant applications.
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Behavioral Health grants strengthen the systems within behavioral health care, providing scholarships and training to build the workforce necessary to meet increasing need, and integrating behavioral health into the education system so that more children, families, and communities can access high-quality mental health care.
Ballmer Group’s first grants centered on the child welfare system – a network of services whose purpose is to ensure child safety and to strengthen permanency in families. These grants continue to support affected families and kids and to transform systems in order to improve prevention and to reduce racial disparities in care.
Our Community Impact grants strengthen local Place-Based Partnerships, including building leadership pipelines, to help communities working to address complex issues and achieve measurable results.
Early Childhood & Families grants build systems of support and care for our littlest ones in the most critical point of their brain development by promoting equity in prenatal and maternal health, as well as helping all families access high quality childcare and early education.
K-12 Education grants seek to reduce and eliminate inequities that shortchange student achievement, by strengthening both the in-school academic experience as well as wrap-around and afterschool support. We believe that all neighborhoods deserve strong schools and a more representative, racially diverse workforce of teachers and school leaders.
Public Safety grants support leaders and organizations working to advocate for and scale effective public safety initiatives.
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Our National Impact grants focus on opportunities to strengthen impact across the country, and partners with regional teams to advance key issues.
In the Ballmers’ home state of Washington, our grants focus on public systems transformation, with deep investments in child welfare, behavioral health, and education as levers for change.
In the home of the Clippers, the Los Angeles County grants support building more equitable public systems, focusing on education, criminal justice, and a community-led vision of safety.
The Southeast Michigan grants works across the tri-county area surrounding Steve Ballmer’s hometown, bringing philanthropy, government, and business together to tackle economic mobility, and focusing on education and community development.
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Arab American and Chaldean Council
Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services
With 11 locations and over 120 programs serving metro Detroit, ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services) provides a broad array of social, economic, health, and educational services to a diverse community. Our grant enhances ACCESS’s data capacity to assess the effectiveness of its family support programs.
Basblue Inc
BasBlue’s mission is to create pathways and open doors for women and non-binary individuals by fostering connection and discovery through a diverse and inclusive community, educational opportunities, and culturally enriching experiences. Our grant supports the creation of youth programs in Southeast Michigan high schools that offer mentorship, scholarship opportunities, leadership, and career development to ensure that these students have access to the social capital and skills they need as they define their own pathways to success and economic opportunity.
Bing Youth Institute, Inc.
Bing Youth Institute provides mentorship and academic, emotional, and social wellbeing support for Black boys and helps them become the leaders of tomorrow. Our grant supports the organization’s construction and renovation of the Dave Bing Community Park in Detroit, which features recreational spaces, greenspace, and a playscape.
Black Leaders Detroit
Black Leaders Detroit seeks to address disparities by offering what has been missing: financial support. Recognizing that Detroiters of African descent have always been rich in creativity, effective economic strategies, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovative business models, our grant will enhance Black Leaders Detroit’s operational capabilities to meet the increasing demand for services, supporting regional Black-owned businesses and emerging entrepreneurs.
Black Male Educator Alliance of Michigan
The Black Male Educators Alliance develops effective culturally-responsive educators who cultivate learning partnerships and grow independent thinkers into change agents for their communities. The Alliance partners with educational agencies at the local, state, and national level to support recruiting Black men into education, engaging Black male educators, and developing leaders to improve the education of youth.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan is a safe space for youth to learn and have fun, while providing them with the economic, cultural and social capital needed to become career, startup and homeowner ready. Our grant will help BGCSM expand their operations to support more children, young adults, and families to receive the economic, social, human, and cultural capital needed to become economically mobile.
Center for Employment Opportunities
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) offers individuals just coming home from prison the ongoing support necessary to build career capital and financial stability. Our grant supports CEO’s work in Southeast Michigan that benefits justice-impacted individuals, using its scale, experience, and data to change the way government invests in criminal justice and workforce development.
City Year Detroit
City Year improves student and whole school outcomes by partnering with AmeriCorps and placing young adults as tutors, coaches, and mentors in schools with high-needs populations. Our grant supports City Year Detroit’s expansion to more Detroit Public Schools Community District schools to deliver interconnected services in grades 3-9 so that students reach the 10th grade on track and on time.
Columbus Foundation
The Ignite the Classroom initiative is a partnership between Huntington National Bank and Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy (RCA), a nonprofit middle school recognized for creating a loving, dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence and fosters leadership. Ignite the Classroom will send 400+ Southeast Michigan educators to an immersive, two-day training to observe RCA’s best practices and to participate in hands-on workshops – all of which intends to give educators a spark in their approach and to discover new ways to make the classroom fun and impactful for students.
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan creates permanent, positive change in southeast Michigan through thoughtful philanthropy. Our grant enables the organization’s transformation of its core IT infrastructure to better support its philanthropic efforts.
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan creates permanent, positive change in southeast Michigan through thoughtful philanthropy. Our grant supports expansion of the Pontiac Funders Collaborative, which supports and funds leaders, nonprofits, business owners, and residents in Pontiac who are working to enact positive social and economic change.
Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
Corporation for a Skilled Workforce partners with government, business, education, and community leaders to cultivate good jobs and the skilled workers to fill them. Our grant enables the organization’s efforts to develop Southeast Michigan’s regional workforce system staff and leadership capacity.
Data For Good Fund
UpMetrics’ cohort-based programs, in partnership with Data for Good Fund, provide nonprofits with tools and training to collect and use data more efficiently to measure, improve, and report on their impact. Our grant provides a cohort of 30 nonprofits serving Southeast Michigan free access to UpMetrics’ data platform, professional services, and peer-to-peer learning sessions to drive and accelerate social change.
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Smart Factory Believers, powered by a Deloitte-led ecosystem, has a mission to empower STEM education opportunities in historically marginalized communities to inspire and build the manufacturing workforce of tomorrow. Our grant supports closing STEM equity gaps in Southeast Michigan by providing robotics kits, resources, and skills training needed to design, code, and build for the future.
Detroit Children’s Fund
Detroit Children’s Fund helps children in Detroit receive the quality education they deserve by making leaders stronger, teachers more effective, and school systems more successful. Our grant supports the Fund to build its team of education experts to support partner schools and local charter schools in improving student outcomes and managing educator talent development.
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation is the workforce agency for the city of Detroit, working in cross-sector collaboration to increase work-based learning opportunities for students and adults. Our grant supports the Grow Detroit’s Young Talent summer initiative, ensuring that 8,000 Detroit youth and young adults have meaningful summer work experiences that create pathways to future opportunities.
Detroit Justice Center
The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is committed to democratizing access to the law. It works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities. Our grant supports DJC in providing direct representation for legal clients in courts in Southeast Michigan.
Detroit Life is Valuable Everyday
Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday (DLIVE) is a hospital-based violence intervention initiative that provides evidence-based, long-term, holistic aftercare for youth and young adults who have sustained acute intentional violent trauma. DLIVE’s transformative interventions make communities safer by preventing re-injury and retaliation and breaking the pervasive cycle of violence.
Detroit Public Schools Community District
Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is Michigan’s largest public education system, with a mission to educate and empower every student with the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to thrive, and to build a stronger Detroit. Our grant supports the launch of 12 Health Hubs at neighborhood high schools, ensuring that students and families are able to access primary physical and behavioral health services right in the neighborhoods where they live.
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation, Inc.
The Detroit Regional Talent Compact is led by Detroit Drives Degrees, the Detroit Regional Chamber’s collective impact initiative that brings together business, philanthropy, government, and education to accomplish two goals: increase Detroit’s postsecondary attainment rate to 60% and reduce its racial equity gap by 50% by 2030. Our grant strengthens regional talent preparation by better-connecting students to career exposure, work-based learning, and credentials that lead to good jobs.
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation, Inc.
The Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation’s Racial Justice and Economic Equity Initiative executes the Detroit Resident Voices 2023 survey that will help regional business, philanthropy, government, and non-profit leaders understand and respond collectively to the most critical equity issues affecting Detroiters. Our grant will provide support for survey execution, release of results, and facilitate resulting action.
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation, Inc.
The Detroit Drives Degrees Community College Collaborative (D3C3) at the Detroit Regional Chamber supports the community college system in Southeast Michigan. D3C3 provides community colleges with financial resources and technical assistance to implement collaborative regional strategies to improve educational opportunities and strengthen the talent pipeline. The ultimate goal of this work is to increase postsecondary attainment in Michigan to 60% and reduce the racial equity attainment gap by half by 2030.
Develop Detroit
Develop Detroit strives to build and preserve high-quality housing that helps transform neighborhoods across Detroit. Develop Detroit plans to create pathways to assist renters in moving into homeownership opportunities through education and connections to other supports, pilot innovative construction methodologies to improve affordability, rehabilitate blighted and vacant properties, and provide access to jobs and workforce training for residents.
Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise Community Partners in Detroit leverages the city’s assets with capital, programs, and policy to advance racial equity and preserve affordable homes. Our grant supports the Community Development Organization Fund, to support the long-term capacity of community-based organizations in Detroit and their neighborhood residents.
Equity Alliance of Michigan
Equity Alliance of Michigan, formerly Danett Associates Inc., holds the profound belief that every community member deserves not only equal opportunities but also tailored resources that reflect the rich tapestry of our society. Through a variety of programming—including workforce-preparation and job-readiness offerings— the organization endeavors to break down barriers for diverse people, foster understanding, and create pathways to success for all.
Family Assistance for Renaissance Men
Family Assistance for Renaissance Men helps fathers develop relationships with their children and assists them in securing living wage jobs for their families. Our grant supports three annual 10-week training programs that provide workforce development services, financial literacy, fatherhood responsibility training, mentoring, job placement assistance, and other related services.
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit co-creates independence and dignity for people in the Detroit, Michigan area through the power of personal and workforce development. Our grant supports the organization to expand its Flip the Script program, which works to reduce recidivism and support the success and personal development of justice-involved people by providing life skills, education, job placement, financial coaching, and post-employment retention services.
Green Door Initiative
Green Door Initiative (GDI), based in Detroit, aims to ensure that every person is environmentally literate, and capable of practicing and promoting sustainability as a lifestyle. GDI is organized into four program categories: Ensuring Environmental Justice, Environmental Technician Career Worker Training Program, Youth Speak Green and Solar. Our grant supports the expansion of GDI’s workforce initiatives including increasing the environmental technicians careers workforce development training to include clean renewable energy offerings.
Hazel Park Promise Zone Authority
Hazel Park Promise Zone and College Access Network helps to revitalize the Hazel Park, Michigan, community by offering its high school graduates a tuition-free path to an associate’s degree and providing college and career preparatory programs. Our grant helps expand coaching and mentoring programs.
Hazel Park Schools
Situated in Oakland County, MI, Hazel Park Schools is a preK-12 school district that serves nearly 3,000 students, 78% of whom are considered economically disadvantaged. Our grant will assist Hazel Park Schools in expanding its successful Community School model across the district to tackle educational, social, and health disparities in a high-poverty community.
Henry Ford College
Henry Ford College is a community college in Dearborn, Michigan, serving 17,000 enrolled students. Our grant expands the college’s efforts to improve student degree completion by increasing the capacity to track student trends and identify needs for intervention, as well as restructure academic advising.
Henry Ford Health
One of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, Henry Ford Health (HFH), is developing a talent and education strategy to prepare and hire youth and young adults in Southeast Michigan for a wide range of high-growth healthcare careers. Our grant will support HFH in employing young people in healthcare pathway jobs, eliminating barriers to sustained career opportunities at HFH, and creating stronger pipelines from high school and college into employment—making a generational impact for families and children in Detroit.
Horatio Williams Foundation
Horatio Williams Foundation is dedicated to helping Detroit, Michigan youth realize personal success and achievement through a series of developmental leadership programs that engage students in education, sports, and community service activities. Our grant will support the Foundation to expand their family supportive services and educational programming.
I AM ME
I AM ME provides wraparound support services for students and their families to increase post-secondary/college readiness, access to scholarship opportunities, and cross-cultural experiences. Our grant launches a pilot youth fellowship program for a cohort of selected students from Detroit Public Schools Community District.
Jalen Rose Leadership Academy
Jalen Rose Leadership Academy is a public charter high school in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 2011, the school serves more than 400 students and over 600 alumni with its college success program. Our grant strengthens their college and career readiness programs and helps improve the school’s facilities.
Kent School Services Network
The Michigan Coalition for Community Schools is an emerging partnership with a shared vision: the people of Michigan collaborate to achieve educational equity by providing every young person and their families with what they need to grow and thrive. The Michigan State Coalition will support community school models by bringing together statewide partners to align resources and practices, organizing professional learning communities to share and enhance best practices, and advocating for educational policies that prioritize students and families.
Lighthouse MI
Lighthouse builds equitable communities and alleviates poverty in southeast Michigan, in partnership with and in service to residents, families, and local organizations. Lighthouse focuses on responding to the basic needs and establishing longer term stability for those experiencing poverty; improving the broader systems contributing to poverty; and engaging, educating, and empowering communities so that all have access to a better quality of life.
Live6 Alliance
Live6 Alliance’s mission is to enhance the quality of life and economic opportunity in Northwest Detroit. Among its many services, Live6 helps to increase access to community health and human service resources, to provide assistance to entrepreneurs and small businesses, and to connect residents to job training and workforce opportunities – all working toward the vision of revitalized, sustainable neighborhoods.
Macomb Community Action
Macomb Community Action aims to diminish poverty and promote independence for the most vulnerable residents of Macomb County, Michigan through collaboration and policy change. Our grant supports the organization to scale and build on existing programs, including their mobile food pantry, mental health services for children and families, workforce programs in partnership with MichiganWorks, and health and human service programs across the County.
Macomb Community College
Macomb Community College is a two-campus community college in Michigan, serving about 30,000 enrolled students. Our grant supports K-12 outreach and the expansion of programs and system-level changes to help increase enrollment, persistence, and graduation rates.
Macomb Intermediate School District
The Macomb Intermediate School District runs a targeted program partnership called High Dosage Tutoring to offer intensive tutoring for lower elementary students that occur one on one or in a very small group. Our grant supports their personalized, consistent instruction that provides a vehicle to accelerate student learning with increased student outcomes.
Macomb-St. Clair Michigan Works
Michigan Works! Macomb/St. Clair coordinates and provides quality, comprehensive workforce development, employment, and training services to prepare job seekers for in-demand careers and help employers connect with those job seekers who have the right skills. Our grant supports the Macomb Young Professionals program to partner with school districts and provide students with mentoring, career education, and work readiness training.
Micah 6 Community
Micah 6 Community is a neighborhood-based community development corporation dedicated to serving the city of Pontiac, Michigan. Our grant supports its efforts to renovate the Webster Community Center so that the facility can become a mixed-use space featuring a collection of local nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and community-minded organizations seeking to build a brighter future.
Michigan Center for Youth Justice
Michigan Center for Youth Justice (MCYJ) works to create a fair and effective justice system for Michigan’s children, youth, and young adults. Our grant supports their work to protect young people and help them achieve their full potential by advancing policies and practices that reduce confinement and support trauma-informed, racially equitable, socio-economically and culturally responsive, community-based solutions.
Michigan College Access Network
Michigan College Access Network seeks to increase the percentage of Michigan residents with degrees or postsecondary certificates to 60% by 2030. Each of its statewide initiatives works to achieve at least one of four priorities: college affordability, credential completion, college-going culture, and pathways and transitions.
Michigan Justice Fund
The Michigan Justice Fund makes investments to stem the flow of individuals into the criminal justice system, support the investment of public dollars to community-driven alternatives to incarceration, and ensure that those who are returning home after incarceration receive the support they need to flourish. The Fund is comprised of Michigan-based and national funders dedicated to advancing justice reform and the economic mobility of individuals with criminal convictions in Michigan.
Michigan League for Public Policy
Michigan League for Public Policy works to lift up Michiganders who have been left out of prosperity. The organization uses data to educate, advocate, and fight for policy solutions that undo historic and systemic racial and economic inequities in the areas of health care, housing, education, childcare, and more.
Michigan Science Center
Michigan Science Center is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum located in the Midtown neighborhood of Detroit that inspires children to explore science, technology, engineering, and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment. Our grant will expand programming and exhibits focused on aviation and space, helping Michigan students take advantage of growth in the aerospace field and consider careers in science.
Michigan State University
The Michigan Political Leadership Program at Michigan State University is a bipartisan initiative aimed at identifying community leaders from across the state and uniting them to participate in a public policy and leadership curriculum. Our grant will support a comprehensive recruitment effort to bring new leaders into politics and establish a pipeline of skilled, knowledgeable leaders for Michigan’s communities.
NAF
NAF’s unique educational design improves outcomes for students in low-resourced communities and gives businesses the opportunity to shape America’s future workforce through career academies with STEM-infused, industry-specific curricula, and work-based learning. Our grant supports NAF’s expansion efforts in the Detroit/Tri-County Area.
National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform
The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) aims to reduce incarceration and violence, enhance outcomes for youth and adults involved in the system, and bolster the capacity and expertise of organizations that support these individuals. Our grant will support NICJR’s collaboration with the State of Michigan in establishing a new statewide office to aid local initiatives aimed at reducing violence.
New Hope Community Development
New Hope aims to improve the quality of life for resident’s businesses and institutions in the New Hope community of Detroit, Michigan. Specifically, the organization promotes homeownership, provides for revitalization and preservation of the New Hope neighborhood, and instills a sense of pride and ownership in the community.
New Paradigm for Education
New Paradigm for Education (NPFE) acts as a portal to educational reform in high-need areas. Our grant supports the NPFE’s Educator Development Institute, a program that aims to further equity and student achievement by home growing a PreK-12 educator pipeline that reflects the racial makeup of Detroit’s student population, better meeting the needs of all students.
Oakland Community College
Oakland Community College is one of Michigan’s largest multi-campus community colleges, serving 24,000 enrolled students. Our grant helps increase postsecondary access, equity, success, and completion across Oakland County and the region.
Oakland Family Services
Oakland Family Services aims to provide individuals and families the opportunity to build brighter futures in Michigan. It offers prevention, education, and treatment services including adoption, foster care, parenting and child development programs, free preschool for at-risk youth, and counseling services for those of all ages dealing with depression, anxiety, substance use issues, and severe emotional disturbance in youth.
Operation Refuge
Operation Refuge provides both essential family services and rich, engaging experiences for youth in and around Inkster, Michigan. Our grant will enable Operation Refuge to increase its reach and establish long-term sustainability for its emergency food assistance and youth development programs, promoting educational enrichment, career education, and community leadership.
Pontiac Community Foundation
Pontiac Community Foundation connects residents, business owners, civic leaders, and nonprofit organizations together for one goal: building a brighter future for Pontiac, MI. Our grant helps Pontiac Community Foundation to expand Pontiac’s economic development work, strengthen its leadership, and build sources of sustainable funding.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Regents of the University of Michigan (U-M) governs U-M, upholding the university’s mission to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future. Our grant supports the two-year placement of a fellow in the State of Michigan’s 60 by 30 Office through the University of Michigan Youth Policy Lab. The fellow will add capacity to the team, supporting the state’s work to encourage participants in the Michigan Reconnect scholarship programs to choose career pathways that align with high demand, high wage careers as identified by the Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives.
Renaissance Village Inc
Renaissance Village is leading development of a Purpose Built Community initiative in a Detroit neighborhood. Effect Detroit is a nonprofit community development corporation that is composed of local leaders to design, direct, and accelerate neighborhood transformation initiatives in Detroit where residents can achieve greater racial equity, improved health outcomes, and increased upward mobility. They aim to address both the symptoms and root causes of concentrated urban poverty, serving as a community quarterback and partnering with residents and other stakeholders to facilitate and implement a community vision for comprehensive neighborhood revitalization.
School District of the City of Pontiac
The School District of the City of Pontiac, Michigan serves the children and families of Pontiac and surrounding communities. Our grant will expand multiple career pathways that include manufacturing engineering, information technology, and biomedical sciences, providing students with technical knowledge, career skills, and hands on experiences through work based learning with local industry partners.
Schoolcraft College
Schoolcraft College is a public community college in Livonia, Michigan, offering more than 130 different academic majors and programs and enrolling more than 30,000 students each year. Our grant expands mental health services, course delivery options, technology and staffing resources, and training programs to improve student success outcomes.
Ser-Metro-Detroit Jobs for Progress Inc.
SER-Metro-Detroit is a vital Detroit resource, enhancing the lives of thousands across the city each year. Through a series of education, job training, and job placement programs, along with youth development and education initiatives, SER equips Detroiters with the skills, resources, and opportunities they need to achieve self-sufficiency.
Soar Detroit
Soar Detroit provides children with one-on-one literacy tutoring so that every child has the opportunity to thrive. Our grant supports the expansion of Soar’s literacy intervention program in Detroit schools.
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance provides innovative leadership to create an inclusive, life long talent and career development system that is responsive to labor market and industry demands and drives a resilient, vital, and competitive economy. Our grant supports increasing youth engagement by establishing intensive, community level outreach throughout Wayne County.
Southfield Public Schools
Located in Oakland County, MI, Southfield School District serves over 4,800 students, 66% of whom are considered economically disadvantaged. Our grant will support the expansion of its community schools model throughout the district, enhancing partnerships, boosting student and family engagement, and improving overall academic outcomes.
State of Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO)
Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity launched the Community & Worker Economic Transition Office (CWETO) in February 2024 to support the state’s workers, communities, and employers as they navigate the clean energy transition. Our grant will support CWETO’s foundational work in researching the magnitude and nature of the transition’s impact, building community coalitions to manage the transition, and developing scalable playbooks of transition strategies.
Student Advocacy Center of Michigan Inc
The Student Advocacy Center of Michigan helps students in grades K-12 stand up for their rights when they are suspended, expelled, denied special education support, or faced with racism or some other barrier at school. Our grant will help provide Student Rights Helpline phone advocacy to families in Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties, and provide direct one-on-one, family-driven education advocacy in Wayne County, so that students can be back in school, engaged, and with the supports they need and are entitled to.
Teach for America Detroit
Teach For America is a diverse network of leaders who confront educational inequity by teaching for at least two years and then working with unwavering commitment from every sector of society to make educational equity a reality. Our grant supports Teach for America Detroit’s efforts to recruit, retain, and develop 1,000 high impact educators serving in poverty dense schools statewide, including 500 in Southeast Michigan. Success is the creation of a deep pipeline of highly effective educators with a long-term commitment to lead, innovate, and build a more equitable and diverse Michigan education system.
The Children’s Foundation
Once a symbol of Detroit’s struggles, the renovated and reopened landmark Michigan Central Station now serves as a beacon to the city’s bright future. Michigan Central Station Children’s Endowment Initiative will build on this resurgence by helping secure the future of ten youth-serving organizations within 15 miles of the Station. Our grant will support funding and technical assistance to set these nonprofits on the pathway to sustainability.
The City of Detroit
The City of Detroit’s Project Clean Slate’s vision is to offer a holistic approach to criminal records expungement services in Detroit. Our grant helps to expand their services to include education on how to navigate the expungement process and potential barriers, while providing each individual tools and access to supports they need to be successful after expungement has been granted.
The Early Childhood Investment Corporation
Early Childhood Investment Corporation collaborates to increase public and private investment in children’s earliest years, to elevate issues affecting young children and their families, and to continuously improve Michigan’s comprehensive early childhood system. Our grant helps to grow their efforts to support effective early childhood policies that improve outcomes and create equitable, long-lasting impact for Michigan’s youngest children and their families.
The Energy Overflow Organization
Energy Overflow is dedicated to bridging gaps in access to education, resources, and opportunities for communities in Southeast Michigan. Our grant launches its Automotive Innovation Hub pilot program, allowing youth to explore careers in the automotive and mechanical fields while incorporating music therapy and sound engineering, fostering skill-building, emotional wellness, and supportive pathways to vibrant careers.
The Michigan Womens Foundation
Michigan Women Forward is a certified community development financial institution (CDFI) whose mission is to expand economic opportunity for women and entrepreneurs of color, empower the next generation, and honor the accomplishments of Michigan women. Our funding will help Michigan Women Forward meet a growing demand for their services.
The Yunion
The Yunion provides holistic youth development services for Detroit-area young people and families. Our grant supports a comprehensive array of supports, including workforce development, life skills and prevention, mentoring and diversion, and case management and counseling services that utilize effective trauma-informed approaches.
Thrive Scholars
Thrive Scholars has been supporting high achieving students of color from low income backgrounds for 20 years and offers each scholar six years of comprehensive support from high school to early career. Our grant supports Thrive Scholars in launching a new program site in Southeast Michigan and recruitment of students for its Los Angeles program.
United Way for Southeastern Michigan
United Way for Southeastern Michigan mobilizes the caring power of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan to improve communities and individual lives in measurable and lasting ways. Our grant supports its “Get the Tax Facts” initiative, which helps people in the Detroit region file taxes and claim every benefit that’s available to them. The grant also supports United Way’s community schools work including building and sustaining a Community School regional advisory council.
United Way for Southeastern Michigan
United Way for Southeastern Michigan mobilizes the caring power of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan to improve communities and individual lives in measurable and lasting ways. Our grant supports United Way’s Building Foundations program, which seeks to decrease the number of Wayne County, Michigan, youths entering the juvenile justice system by providing comprehensive and intensive programming and services through partners and providers including counseling, life skills, health and wellness, and academic support.
United Way for Southeastern Michigan
United Way for Southeastern Michigan mobilizes the caring power of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan to improve communities and individual lives in measurable and lasting ways. The United Way is the local implementation partner for the Summer Discovery program in Southeast Michigan, which was designed by Building Impact Partners. Summer Discovery offers free learning and enrichment activities to students in grades K-8 living in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. Summer Discovery will provide schools with essential funding and support for instruction and enrichment activities tailored to qualifying K-8 students during the summer of 2025. The program is structured to provide students with exposure to career paths and offer unique learning experiences.
Urban Alliance Foundation
Urban Alliance works with schools and employers to address systemic barriers to economic mobility for young adults of color and to bridge the gaps between education and workforce development for all young people. Our grant will deepen and expand equitable, inclusive career pathways for young people in and around Detroit through paid work experiences, mentorship, and professional development.