In Monroe, the former St. Mary’s Academy building left an empty space in the city’s downtown when it closed in 2003. Demolition was on the table until a developer with a personal connection to the building stepped up to save it.
An unlikely partnership has blossomed between the Mormon church and Zaman International, a nonprofit that serves mostly Middle Eastern Muslim women. Both faiths have more in common that it might appear on the surface.
Developing self-confidence and culinary skills are key to Zaman International's culinary program for women who are immigrants or refugees or face other barriers to employment.
Welcoming refugees to Michigan is part and parcel Zaman International's work with Welcome Corps
Despite its name, the Chaldean Community Foundation has served clients from 59 different countries with citizenship classes, immigration assistance, and more. Programs are aimed at helping people navigate systems so they can feel at home in heir newly adopted country.
More than 2,000 applicants vied for grants from the Nonprofit Relief Fund, created to provide post-pandemic support to small nonprofits. Award announcements were made in early October. Grantees are able to use the unrestricted funding where it's needed most.
In Michigan, funding collaboratives are increasingly being employed to bring combined expertise from several funders together to tackle complex problems. Read about how the Michigan Justice Fund, Pontiac Funders Collaborative, and Community Foundation of St. Clair are forging change through untraditional funding models.
Burnout among nonprofit leaders is real. This story looks at approaches foundations and nonprofits are taking to create paths for executives to step aside, get some much-needed time away, and re-center themselves for the important but demanding work they do every day.
Michigan Nonprofit Association and the Michigan Department of Labor and Opportunity are overseeing a grant program for small Michigan nonprofits that are struggling post-pandemic.
Hot off the heels of the popular immersive Vincent Van Gogh exhibit, Detroit will host an elaborate Gustav Klimt show in September and October. Music and animation will be used to augment projected displays to bring the viewer into the artist's world of water lilies, vibrant blooms, mermaids, and (of course) his famous golden phase that produced "The Kiss".
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