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.
Celebrating Kate: A Season of Recognition
Twenty-five years ago, Kate Levin Markel joined the McGregor Fund. As she prepares to step down at the end of this year, she is being honored during a richly-deserved season of recognition.
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.
Celebrating Kate: A Season of Recognition
Twenty-five years ago, Kate Levin Markel joined the McGregor Fund. As she prepares to step down at the end of this year, she is being honored during a richly-deserved season of recognition.
Highlighting the Work of Our Grant Partners
We're excited to welcome the Hearth Summit to Detroit and look forward to participating in this important international forum around rest and well-being.
#hearthsummitdetroit2026 #restisjustice
📣 In the first half of 2026, the McGregor Fund made three additional grants, totaling $650,000, to partner organizations working to strengthen the infrastructure of civil society and to promote justice and equity, particularly in an environment marked by increasing threats and challenges to the well-being of Detroit and its residents.
Our grant partners’ work includes:
📌 A grant to support an enhanced collaboration of grant partners uniting to strengthen organizational wellbeing and long-term resilience across nonprofit organizations based in Southeast Michigan, including coordinated infrastructure support ranging from governance coaching and legal assistance to strategic narrative work and emergency response funding.
📌 Another grant supported participatory grantmaking, leadership development, community engagement work, and broadened participation in philanthropy for Black-led grassroots organizations. A third grant supported a partner providing pro bono legal support to local, community-based, non-profit and investigative journalism organizations.
➡️ Read more about our grantmaking here: mcgregorfund.org/mcgregor-fund-announces-7-5-million-in-grants-other-news/
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📣 In the first half of 2026, the McGregor Fund made 11 grants, totaling $2.1 million, under our Skill Building & Employment umbrella to promote economic justice and mobility and focusing on personal development, fulfillment, choice and connection.
A note about our grant partners:
📌 Grants were made to partners offering youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement programming, including one responding to growing demand in a newly expanded facility and another offering arts-based opportunities that build skills and confidence and connect youth to performance opportunities and creative career exploration.
📌 The Fund is also supporting partners offering leadership and skills development to Detroit youth, including one providing entrepreneurial opportunities and postsecondary support throughout high school and beyond, and another working with youth to develop critical thinking, public speaking, civic leadership and real-world problem-solving skills through competitive debate programming.
📌 Other grants were made to support partners working towards a more racially equitable workforce system. These included grants to a workforce funder collaborative, as well as to a partner building a community-centered construction ecosystem and creating equitable pathways for contractors and entrepreneurs across Detroit.
📌 Additional grants were made to partners providing safe, supportive and culturally affirming youth programming for children and families, increasing food access to immigrant families, and advancing summer youth employment opportunities.
➡️ Read more about our grantmaking here: mcgregorfund.org/mcgregor-fund-announces-7-5-million-in-grants-other-news/
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CELEBRATING A WAVES OF CHANGE HONOREE
As Avalon Healing Center celebrates 20 Years of Healing & Hope, we are honored to recognize the McGregor Fund at our 20th Anniversary Celebration aboard the Ovation Yacht on September 24, 2026.
For two decades, the McGregor Fund has been an extraordinary partner in Avalon’s journey. From providing some of our first foundation grants, to creatively helping us build organizational capacity, to becoming the first foundation to publicly support our capital campaign, McGregor has believed in Avalon and the survivors we serve from the very beginning.
Their innovative approach to philanthropy, commitment to breaking down barriers, and unwavering focus on the people and communities their grantees serve have made a lasting impact on Avalon.
We truly would not be celebrating 20 years without the creativity, vision, partnership, and support of the McGregor Fund team and Board of Directors.
McGregor, thank you for believing in our mission, investing in our future, and helping Avalon remain here to serve survivors for 20 years and counting.
Your partnership has helped create waves of change that continue to move us forward.
Join us as we celebrate 20 years of Avalon, the partners who helped make our journey possible, and the future we are creating together.
Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are available!
avalonhealing.org/network/event/waves-of-change-cruise/
#AvalonHealingCenter #WavesOfChange #20YearsOfHealingAndHope #McGregorFund #WavesOfChangeAward
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📣 In the first half of 2026, the McGregor Fund made Recovery & Restoration grants, totaling $2.4 million to ten grant partners, for pathways to safety and healing from interpersonal and societal violence, abuse and inequity.
A note about our grant partners:
📌 The Fund supported grant partners expanding restorative justice infrastructure for Detroiters facing barriers created by mass incarceration, including direct legal services, peer-led reentry stabilization, clinical support and economic mobility programming. This includes partners connecting individuals to stable housing, healthcare access and workforce pathways, and supporting their movement towards long-term community reintegration.
📌 Additional grants were made to partners leading community violence intervention work, including behavioral health services, workforce development and wraparound supports for youth and families. Other grants supported partners advancing digital media and education infrastructure to facilitate mentoring, restorative intervention, and arts and emotional wellness support.
📌 The Fund also made grants to partners providing emergency and long-term recovery support to adult survivors of domestic violence and their dependents, including access to immediate shelter, bridge housing and relocation; classes to support mobility and independence; flexible financial assistance; and culturally-grounded transitional housing and support programs, including a pilot affordable housing project.
➡️ Read more about our grantmaking here: mcgregorfund.org/mcgregor-fund-announces-7-5-million-in-grants-other-news/
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📣 In the first half of 2026, the McGregor Fund made eight Basic Needs: Housing and Food Justice grants, totaling $2.5 million, for food, shelter, and other necessities essential for day-to-day living.
A note about our grant partners:
📌 To advance housing justice, the McGregor Fund awarded grants to partners connecting Detroiters to essential health resources, community-based care, housing and wraparound services.
📌 Grants were made to partners providing direct, flexible aid to individuals across Detroit, including one working to reduce child poverty and improve maternal and infant health outcomes and another providing coordinated entry and permanent supportive housing services to youth experiencing homelessness.
📌 Also included were grants supporting community food sovereignty, healthy meal provision and food waste reduction, as well as a grant to a partner building community coalitions and advancing systems-level food advocacy. Another grant was made to a partner expanding land ownership and agriculture infrastructure for Detroit-based urban farming networks.
➡️ Read more about our grantmaking here: mcgregorfund.org/mcgregor-fund-announces-7-5-million-in-grants-other-news/
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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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