Stories & Insights
Beyond Workforce Development
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
Homelessness is solvable. We’re committing $5 million toward it.
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.
Workforce Intelligence Network report released
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.
Tracy McGregor: Social Entrepreneur
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.
Focusing the Mission
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.
US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty
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?
