TeQuion Brookins Transitions to Advisory Role; Malika Pettigrew Joins the McGregor Fund The McGregor Fund is celebrating TeQuion Brookins, our departing Director of Operations and welcoming Malika Pettigrew as our new Accounting & Operations Associate (AOA). At the end of 2021, TeQuion transitioned to full-time mission-driven entrepreneurship. During her time at the Fund, …
Largest Grant in McGregor Fund History Made to UCHC At the end of 2021, the McGregor Fund made a $1 million operating support grant, the largest grant for services in the Fund’s history, to United Community Housing Coalition (UCHC). This Housing & Homelessness Prevention grant will support UCHC's substantially increased effort to deploy …
Kate Levin Markel Named to Crain’s 100 Most Influential Women; Creates Her Own List of Influential Women In November, McGregor Fund President, Kate Levin Markel, was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Michigan by Crain's Detroit Business. The trustees and staff are and grateful for Kate’s leadership and thrilled that …
Choose Healthy Life Initiative with Mayor Duggan In April, we were honored to join Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan; Reverend Horace Sheffield, III; Debra Fraser-Howze, founder of Choose Healthy Life; and Dr. Darienne Hudson, Executive Director of United Way for Southeastern Michigan at a vaccination event held by The Detroit Association of Black Organizations …
The Detroit Community Development Mini-Grant Fund's COVID-19 recovery grants for Detroit-based community organizations are administered by Co.act Detroit and Community Development Advocates of Detroit, with support from the McGregor Fund and the Hudson-Webber Foundation.
In 2020, a year of extreme challenges, loss, and reckoning, a big story quietly and quickly unfolded in Detroit. Our city came together to keep Detroiters experiencing homelessness safe — and now, we can do more.
Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan's "Investing in Us" report combines Detroiters’ stories and neighborhood-level improvement plans into a “unified city-wide vision of economic well-being.”
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The McGregor Fund team is joining with public sector partners, leaders in our local social sector and funder colleagues to help ensure that community-wide responses to this crisis are swift and highly coordinated. Learn more about the steps we’re taking.
