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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 Announces $7.5 Million in Grants
The McGregor Fund is pleased to share news of $7.5 million in grants awarded to 37 area nonprofit organizations in the second half of 2025.
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 Announces $7.5 Million in Grants
The McGregor Fund is pleased to share news of $7.5 million in grants awarded to 37 area nonprofit organizations in the second half of 2025.
Highlighting the Work of Our Grant Partners
🤩 MCEDSV 2026 CONFERENCE CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We are excited to share this opportunity for you to consider presenting at this year’s conference, Centering Justice Amid Injustice, July 21-23, 2026 in Ann Arbor!
No matter where you do the work or what your title is, YOUR PERSPECTIVE MATTERS HERE. We welcome a wide range of presenters, including youth, people with lived experience, and those whose voices are often overlooked in formal or public spaces.
Every year we receive incredible proposals from folks in the field. Is this the year YOU apply?! We cannot wait to read your submission!
The deadline is MARCH 6th, 2026. Review the Call for Proposals!
▶ mcedsv.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/call-for-session-proposals-2026-5.pdf
From SDM² Project Education: "We work really hard, not just to ensure that we are able to provide an abundance of high-quality foods, but that we offer an experience that is humanizing, joyful, and communal. We’re glad we are able to translate that vision to the community."
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➡️ Kate at DPC:
💬 “We are very focused on supporting nonprofit partners in the community who are working to bring about more just systems and ensure housing and food and other basic needs and access to opportunity…[and] to power.
I think our job is to...support the people at the center of our work in gaining more power to lead fulfilling and thriving lives.”
At today’s Detroit Policy Conference, McGregor Fund President Kate Levin Markel joined Sarida Scott (The Skillman Foundation) and Laura Granneman (Rocket Community Fund), along with moderator Megan Spanitz (Detroit Regional Chamber), to discuss “Philanthropy's Role in Detroit's Economic Ecosystem” as the city begins a new era in leadership.
Learn more: www.detroitchamber.com/.../detroit-policy.../
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💡Who we’re learning from: Courtney Smith, Detroit Phoenix Center Executive Director (2023 McGregor Fund Miller Fellow) spoke this week at Eastern Michigan University’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice Speaker Series as part of EMU’s 2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, "MLK: His Dream. Our Action."
From Joyce E. Jenereaux, Chair of the McGregor Fund’s Board of Trustees:
💬 “Courtney was amazing! She fully engaged the large crowd who had lots of questions...She is so inspiring.”
Joyce, who received last year’s Distinguished Alumni Award, also serves as trustee of EMU’s College of Business and is a sponsor of this annual speaker series.
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With temperatures dropping into the single digits, the City of Detroit is activating additional overnight shelters and daytime respite sites to protect residents from these extreme conditions. The Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries is operating an overnight stand-by shelter at 13130 Woodward Avenue now through Wednesday, Jan. 21 at noon that can serve singles and families. A second site, operated by Pope Francis Center for single adults only, will open on Jan. 19 at 5 pm and close on Jan. 21 at noon.
Adams Butzel Complex and Coleman A. Young Recreation Center will also serve as daytime respite sites with special hours open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on MLK Day.
Update: Overnight shelter sites will remain open until Wednesday, Jan. 21 at noon.
For a list of locations, click here: detroitmi.gov/respitelocations
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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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