News & Insights

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.”

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

2019/10/30
More than 10,000 Detroiters experienced homelessness in 2018, enough to fill one quarter of Comerica Park, and representing the largest share of people experiencing homelessness in the state.

2019/08/12
The Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan (WIN), is releasing a report on “Supporting Job Seekers Facing Multiple Barriers to Work," funded by the McGregor Fund.

2019/01/21
We use Tracy McGregor’s name while explaining our mission, and you’ll find his photo all over our website and social media channels. There’s a good reason for this.

2018/10/19
In 2017, we shifted our grantmaking approach to address the needs of the whole person and to take a long term view of the journey out of poverty and what is needed along the way.

2018/09/10
To permanently end homelessness, we must both establish a multi-layered, rapid crisis response system and vastly improve access to affordable housing.

2018/06/08
In May, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty wrapped up a two-year research initiative to answer the question: What would it take to dramatically increase mobility from poverty?

2017/01/29
On July 18, 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. At stake was nothing less than the very survival of America’s Motor City.

2017/01/17
In 2013, University of Michigan-Dearborn launched the Public Allies Metro Detroit Program, an initiative to develop young community leaders and strengthen local nonprofits. In 2013, the Fund became the first investor in the program.

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?

2017/01/17
The Fund is working with TDC to understand how tri-county nonprofits are capitalized and create tools and resources for organizations seeking to learn more about capitalization.