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.
McGregor Fund Trustees & Staff Celebrate Kate Levin Markel
For nearly 25 years, including eleven as president, Kate has upheld a fierce, unwavering dedication to the mission set forth by our founders and, most importantly, to the causes of hundreds of grant partners. For that, we are immeasurably grateful.
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.
McGregor Fund Trustees & Staff Celebrate Kate Levin Markel
For nearly 25 years, including eleven as president, Kate has upheld a fierce, unwavering dedication to the mission set forth by our founders and, most importantly, to the causes of hundreds of grant partners. For that, we are immeasurably grateful.
Highlighting the Work of Our Grant Partners
📣 Sharing news: "The Transforming Solidarity Collective — a consortium of five Southeast Michigan nonprofit support groups that first came together during the Covid pandemic — have rejoined to serve as a single point of contact for nonprofits in crisis, connecting them with legal, financial, operational and advocacy support before their situations become unmanageable."
The Transforming Solidarity Collective is: Michigan Community Resources, Community Development Advocates of Detroit, Co.act Detroit, Michigan Nonprofit Association and Nonprofit Enterprise at Work.
From Shamyle Dobbs, Co-CEO of Michigan Community Resources:
“Across Southeast Michigan, nonprofits are operating in one of the most uncertain periods they have faced in decades. Rather than asking organizations to determine which intermediary, consultant or funder they should call or (to) navigate multiple intake processes, we are designing a shared front door and coordinated assessment process that connects leaders to the right expertise, at the right time, through the right partner. The goal is a seamless point of entry that assesses an organization’s needs holistically and coordinates support across the network.”
➡️ Read "Foundations pledge $2M to ramp up one-stop-shop for nonprofits in crisis" in Crain's Detroit Business: tinyurl.com/4pnm3wdb
🎂 What does it mean to turn 100? It is a moment for humble, honest reflection. A time to consider our history, what has changed over a century of work, and where we are called moving forward.
🗣️ Today, we honor our founders, Tracy and Katherine McGregor, and we also acknowledge our mistakes and our complicity in systems that continue to harm our community.
❤️ We are grateful to bear witness to the radical love of nonprofits and their leaders who wrap their arms, with tenderness and determination, around our neighbors whose humanity is so often denied. As we move forward, we commit to holding ourselves accountable to Detroiters. To repairing harm. To returning power. To honoring their dreams, thriving, peace and joy.
➡️ Read more about the McGregor Fund's Centennial: mcgregorfund.org/100/
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📝📊🤔Survey alert from Youth Development Resource Center - Detroit:
"YDRC is connecting with organizations that have received, or plan to apply for 32n funding, to learn about your experiences and identify ways we can strengthen support across Metro Detroit."
Share your perspective in YDRC's short survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/MQZQLTQ📣 Reminder: We want to hear from you!
Have you received 32n funding, applied before, or are you planning to apply? YDRC wants to better understand what’s working, the challenges organizations are facing, and the support providers need.
Your feedback will help us better understand and support the needs of the field across Metro Detroit.
🔗 Take our short survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/MQZQLTQ
#YDRC #32n #OutOfSchoolTime #YouthDevelopment #DetroitOST #MetroDetroit
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🫶🏽🤝🏾💚 Find additional resources around Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month here: mhanational.org/bipoc-mental-health/bipoc-mental-health-month/
#BIPOCMentalHealth #calebskids
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📣 Event alert: Unwind at Co.act Detroit on July 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Note to grant partners: "This special day was designed by and for nonprofit professionals who understand the weight that you carry. Move at your own pace. Stay as long as you need. Connect with colleagues who get it."
RSVP here: tinyurl.com/mpzf3k94
#restisjustice
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From Kate Levin Markel, McGregor Fund President:
“I learned from my elders that if you're beginning to think of the next thing, you already have a foot out the door. And I don't have a foot out the door. I am 120 percent committed to the work we're doing, our partners, our team…it's work I love.
I have been so blessed, so blessed to do the work I've been able to do. It has given my life such meaning. And this is all through the relationships I have been honored to have with so many Detroiters.”
Many thanks to Stephen Henderson for inviting Kate back to American Black Journal and for his always thoughtful questions.
Watch their full conversation: americanblackjournal.org
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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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