News & Insights
From grantmaking updates to sharing what we’re learning from our community, grantee partners, and peers, we invite you to learn more about our ongoing work here.
Letter from the President
Yesterday, McGregor Fund grant partners received a message announcing our board’s unprecedented decision to significantly increase the Fund’s payout rate for the next two years. We understand what you're up against, and we want to step up and support you.
News & Insights
From grantmaking updates to sharing what we’re learning from our community, grantee partners, and peers, we invite you to learn more about our ongoing work here.
Letter from the President
Yesterday, McGregor Fund grant partners received a message announcing our board’s unprecedented decision to significantly increase the Fund’s payout rate for the next two years. We understand what you're up against, and we want to step up and support you.
Highlighting the Work of Our Grant Partners
📣 Event alert: on May 1st, Co.act Detroit is hosting a lunch & learn well-being session focused on reimagining rest and wellness in the nonprofit sector.
📌 ”Leading with Wellness: Reimagining Rest and Wellness in the Nonprofit Sector” will bring together nonprofit leaders, including McGregor Fund Miller Fellows Nicole Wilson, Executive Director of The Yunion, and Suma Karaman Rosen, Executive Director of InsideOut Literary Arts, to share strategies for prioritizing well-being within their organizations and to discuss how they are approaching succession planning to support the next generation of leadership.
📌 Event will be held from 12:00-1:30 pm on 5/1 at Co.act
📌 Lunch will be provided.
📌 Register here: survey.zohopublic.com/zs/fekNSg
🎬 Premiering this week at Black Film Festival Atlanta: “Navigating Autism in Communities of Color”
This documentary was co-produced by Camille Proctor, Executive Director of The Color of Autism Foundation and McGregor Fund Miller Fellow.
Register to watch online here: tinyurl.com/k6ee2ksa
#autismawareness #autismawarenessmonth #inclusionmatters
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📣 The McGregor Fund has signed onto the "Meet the Moment: A Call to Action for Philanthropy in 2025" pledge.
Together, the National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP), the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) have issued this call for funders to take coordinated action to meet the current moment.
This joint call to action asks philanthropy to prioritize practices that we believe in and follow. So we didn’t hesitate to sign on quickly and be among the first 50 funders to commit.
From the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project:
“While philanthropy cannot possibly fill all the federal funding gaps, it can play a critical role in supporting the stability, resilience, and reimagination of the social sector.
Today, we released a joint call to action that urges philanthropy to:
➡️ Move in solidarity with nonprofits—Listen, advocate, and provide support beyond the check.
➡️ Mobilize money in trust-based ways—Increase funding, simplify processes, and prioritize unrestricted, multi-year grants.
➡️Nurture possibility and innovation—Listen for and fund big ideas, invest in connection and convening, and explore alternative funding structures.”
Learn more: www.trustbasedphilanthropy.org/meet-the-moment
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📚 What we’re reading: Dan Austin’s exceptional piece on Ruth Ellis, LGBTQ+ heroine, Detroiter, and namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a McGregor Fund grant partner.
🌈 The Ruth Ellis Center is a community of welcome, joy and refuge for LGBTQ+ youth in the Detroit area, supporting their social, emotional, medical and behavioral needs; offering hot meals, a food pantry, skill building workshops, job placement and benefits support; and providing LGBTQ+ affirmative, community-based housing and permanent supportive housing through its Clairmount Center.
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👏👏 Congratulations to McGregor Fund Trustee Kelly Major Green!
From the Michigan Chronicle:
"Kelly Major Green Makes History as First Black Woman on Detroit Athletic Club Board, Rooted in Legacy, Leadership, and Love for the 313"
"Black women in Detroit and beyond are watching, processing, and realizing that glass ceilings inside even the most exclusive institutions can and must be shattered—not for applause, but for access, for voice, for legacy."
"Detroiters know the significance of “firsts,” but they also know the importance of what follows. Sustaining presence, creating policy, mentoring future leaders—those are the next steps. Green is already walking in that. She’s not waiting for a title to tell her what leadership looks like. She’s been doing the work. This board seat is just the recognition catching up."
"Moments like this are never about one woman. They are about community evolution. They are about reimagining institutions and shifting narratives from exclusion to inclusion—brick by brick, seat by seat. Green’s story is not wrapped in exceptionalism—it’s grounded in what happens when excellence meets opportunity, when dedication meets access."
"The board seat is symbolic. Her presence is seismic. And the culture she’s affirming by being exactly who she is—that’s the real win."
michiganchronicle.com/kelly-major-green-makes-history-as-first-black-woman-on-detroit-athletic-cl...
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McGregor Fund grant partner Accounting Aid Society is offering no-cost tax preparation appointments for individuals and families at multiple tax sites across Metro Detroit.
Detroit locations include:
📌 Detroit Public Library - Main Library
📌 Duffield Branch Library
📌 Fisher Magnet Academy - FREC East
📌 Focus: HOPE
📌 LA SED Senior and Youth Center
📌 Northwest Financial Hub
📌 University of Detroit Mercy
Call 313-556-1920 or visit www.accountingaidsociety.org to make an appointment.
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McGregor Fund Founders
More than 100 years ago, the McGregors devoted their lives to community service – Tracy as an agency founder and social entrepreneur ending homelessness and unemployment for Detroit men, and Katherine as the founder and benefactor of an orphanage in Highland Park. Their proximity to people experiencing hardship and trauma informed their charitable giving and Tracy’s role as a civic leader.
McGregor Fund Founders
More than 100 years ago, the McGregors devoted their lives to community service – Tracy as an agency founder and social entrepreneur ending homelessness and unemployment for Detroit men, and Katherine as the founder and benefactor of an orphanage in Highland Park. Their proximity to people experiencing hardship and trauma informed their charitable giving and Tracy’s role as a civic leader.
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