News & Insights
We’re pleased to share our grantee partners’ work; news of the McGregor Fund, including both our grantmaking and the contributions of our trustees and staff; and our biennial reports and financial statements, including 990 forms and year-end audits.
TeQuion Brookins Transitions to Advisory Role; Malika Pettigrew Joins the McGregor Fund
April 1, 2022
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 for Services in McGregor Fund History Made to UCHC
January 19, 2022
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
November 19, 2021
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
April 1, 2021
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 [...]
McGregor Fund Supports Detroit Community Development Mini-Grant Fund
February 26, 2021
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.
An Update from the McGregor Fund on COVID-19
March 31, 2020
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.A Home is a Foundation
December 7, 2019
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 ProjectBeyond Workforce Development
December 6, 2019
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 MetroDetroit Conservation Corps
January 17, 2017
2017/01/17
What if unemployed Detroiters could transform vacant property into a beautiful, working landscape, one that sustained residents for generations to come? And, what if, in the process, they could also access landscape industry training, job-readiness programs, and case management services?
TeQuion Brookins Transitions to Advisory Role; Malika Pettigrew Joins the McGregor Fund
April 1, 2022
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 for Services in McGregor Fund History Made to UCHC
January 19, 2022
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
November 19, 2021
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
April 1, 2021
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 [...]
McGregor Fund Supports Detroit Community Development Mini-Grant Fund
February 26, 2021
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.
An Update from the McGregor Fund on COVID-19
March 31, 2020
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.A Home is a Foundation
December 7, 2019
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 ProjectBeyond Workforce Development
December 6, 2019
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