In 1925, our founders gave us the mission “to promote the well being of humankind”

In 1925, our founders gave us the mission “to promote the well being of humankind”

Partners for Liberation

Over the last two years, we’ve stood alongside our partners as they’ve built community power, advanced justice, and confronted growing challenges to their work.

They advance a long-term vision of thriving, while responding to acute needs and contending with unjust systems. They carry the weight of structural inequities while pushing forward towards justice, dignity and liberation.

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Letter from the President

Tracy McGregor

Our founders, Tracy and Katherine McGregor, saw the necessity of just legal and care systems for individual and community well-being. One hundred years later, their example still calls us to tackle injustice and unjust systems by supporting advocates and visionaries working to change them.

Letter from the Board Chair

Over the past two years, through close listening, quick adaptation, and intentional action, we’ve expanded our capacity with new roles, doubled our grantmaking, and widened our lens, all while staying true to our core mission: to promote the well-being of humankind.

Joyce Jenereaux

“This work is about freedom.”

“This work is about freedom.”

Shakara Tyler
Co-Executive Director Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

Building a Food Sovereign Detroit

What does a food sovereign Detroit look like? Community ownership. Culturally resonant cooking classes and recipes. Land held and stewarded by the people who live here. Black farmers purchasing and controlling land across a majority Black city.

As the McGregor Fund walked alongside architects of the movement, we learned what they already knew: direct ownership and trust in our mutual capacity is the next chapter in our work together.

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HOUSING JUSTICE

Justice Begins with Home

Ending youth homelessness begins with the belief that young people are the experts in their own lives. In systems that too often make decisions for young people rather than with them, our partners trust youth to identify what they need.

We have been learning from our partners how housing justice for youth requires stepping back from prescriptive approaches and stepping into shared power.

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ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Economic Justice: Rooted in Respect

Our partners are working to build power for economic liberation rooted in human dignity, guided by lived experience, and striving for conditions in which everyone can thrive.

We are evolving our work for economic mobility and workforce investments by prioritizing flexible support, centering well-being, and remaining accountable to partners whose work makes justice visible in everyday life.

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OUR GRANTMAKING

Flexible Funding for Community-Led Solutions

Funding Type Breakdown

MILLER FELLOWSHIP

Rest is justice.

Since our Rest is Justice biennial featuring the 2023 Eugene A. Miller Fellowship cohort, we’ve continued to grow our advocacy for individual rest and collective well-being.

We are deeply grateful to our grant partners, whose love for and unbending commitment to our city anchors everything we do. It is a privilege to serve our neighbors, as we unite to pursue justice, together.

We are deeply grateful to our grant partners, whose love for and unbending commitment to our city anchors everything we do.

It is a privilege to serve our neighbors, as we unite to pursue justice, together.