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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.”

2020/03/31
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.

2019/12/18
Even when it is temporary, the experience of homelessness is traumatic and life-altering. A home is the foundation for so many aspects of life, supporting a wide range of our needs and aspirations, from basic health and safety to stable employment. Photo from The NOAH Project

2019/12/18
In the city of Detroit, where the workforce participation rate hovers around 53.4 percent, a significant proportion of job seekers face multiple, critical, and interlinked barriers to employment, such as reliable transportation, affordable and quality child care — and, most vitally, stable housing. Photo from SER Metro