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Byline: Sherri Welch Five years into the development of the Great Lakes Way trail from Port Huron to Toledo, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is making plans to transition [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Focus: Hope CEO Portia Roberson, an attorney by training, held several governmental posts before joining the Detroit-based nonprofit seven years ago, turning around its finances and refocusing [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Santa Ono President, University of Michigan During a Detroit Economic Club luncheon in mid-October, University of Michigan President Santa Ono didn't hesitate when asked what he'd do [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The Motor City Contractor Fund will expand its assistance to Detroit-based contractors with a new $3 million grant from the Gilbert Family Foundation. The new funding follows [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch As Eastern Market Corp. CEO Dan Carmody prepares to step down at year's end, he's thinking about all of the changes he's helped bring to Detroit's historic [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory plan to bring a $1.2 billion high-performance computing and AI lab to Ypsilanti Township has secured the first [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Allandra Bulger, the founding executive director of nonprofit intermediary Co.act Detroit, will step down at year's end. Bulger is leaving to pursue other professional opportunities, the organization [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Since its 2002 founding, Beyond Basics has predominantly offered its literacy program for students in Detroit and Wayne County and more recently, Oakland County. The program has [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Waltraud 'Wally' Prechter, a College for Creative Studies trustee, has made a $2 million gift commitment to the Detroit college. The gift will permanently endow scholarships to [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The Detroit Institute of Arts has exceeded its original $400 million endowment goal and is expanding it to continue tri-county programs it launched a dozen years ago [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Charitable giving will be as easy as buying a can of pop this holiday season in Detroit and two other Michigan cities. The Salt Lake City-based Church [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch It will be another year before a picturesque boardwalk completed more than four years ago off the west Detroit riverfront opens to the public. The delay comes [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch United Way for Southeastern Michigan has set a lower fundraising campaign goal for fiscal 2025 after missing its target last year and using layoffs and voluntary employee [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Fall enrollment numbers for Michigan's colleges and universities are still coming in, but leaders believe the institutions dodged the large drop-offs feared after issues with the rollout [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Michigan State University broke ground this afternoon on a $200 million Plant and Environmental Sciences Building. The new facility, approved for construction by the MSU board of [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Seven years after planning efforts began, a world-class garden designed by famed landscape architect Piet Oudolf on Belle Isle Park is finished. The final plantings -- all-native [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch A new development proposal for the Belle Isle Boathouse would create a new welcome center for the Detroit River island, opening it to the public with a [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Relationships drive Rodney Cole,president of DTE Energy Foundation and corporate citizenship of DTE Energy Co., whether it's in his work or in his garage working on cars. [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch A New York-based nonprofit plans to bring a permanent housing and supportive services complex for veterans to a Southfield hotel. Officials from the Tunnel to Towers Foundation [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Detroit Horse Power has broken ground on what it says will be among the largest urban equestrian centers in the country. The center will provide a permanent [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The Detroit Zoo is planning a new immersive refresh of a section of the park that will include a stingray and bamboo shark tank and a 14-foot-high [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries is putting in place a plan to work outside the current federally required system for homeless shelter referrals and plugging in millions of [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The University Research Corridor and its top-tier research universities are rolling out the welcome mat for businesses. Leaders of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Michigan's top Bank of America executive, Matt Elliott, has left the bank. Elliott, who'd served as president of Bank of America Michigan and sustainability executive for global [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Dave Meador, a fixture in Detroit, regional and state workforce development efforts, is turning his attention to creating economic opportunities for a niche group: Michigan's population of [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Megan King, 36 Vice President, Human Resources313 Presents LLC Flint native Megan King had finished her undergraduate degree at Michigan State University, moved to LA and taken [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Laura Grannemann, 32 Executive Director Rocket Community Fund and Gilbert Family Foundation Ten years after joining Rock Ventures as an intern, Laura Grannemann is leading the Rocket [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Meagan Elliott, 39 President and CEO, Belle Isle Conservancy In 2014, as it emerged from bankruptcy with limited funding, Detroit had closed all but a 10th, or [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Kamilia Landrum, 35 Executive Director, Detroit Branch NAACP Kamilia Landrum joined the Detroit Branch NAACP Youth Council as a volunteer when she was just 15 after learning [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch A lawsuit filed against the nonprofit developer of a performing arts center on the Grosse Pointe Park-Detroit border by Wayne County and the Fox Creek Drainage District [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House expects to begin work this winter on the first phase of a $7 million shoreline restoration and habitat plan that will [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Michigan State University is looking to add a mixed-use project with a hotel and 4,000-seat arena for hosting regional Big Ten athletics events on its East Lansing [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Henry Ford Health is taking its $750 million comprehensive campaign, its largest ever, public after raising nearly two-thirds of the target, the Detroit-based health system says. With [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Bonuses and deferred compensation are driving rising nonprofit executive pay. That's seen on Crain's list of highest-paid nonprofit CEOS and throughout our annual nonprofit salary survey this [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The Henry Ford will invest $30 million to reconstruct, program and maintain the historic Jackson House, a safe haven for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Leaders of corporate, private and community foundations gathered July 31 to talk about the landscape of giving amid their own economic realities and the increased demand for [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch As the first generation to go to college in her family, Brandy Johnson, president of the Michigan Community College Association, has a passion for making college accessible. [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch While the criminal and civil cases against the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy's former CFO and alleged co-conspirators play out in court, interim CEO Ryan Sullivan is focused on [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Leaders of Michigan's top three research universities are doubling down on their collaboration through the University Research Corridor to help drive more economic impact in Detroit and [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch For years, Detroit Opera, like other performing arts organizations noted, with some concern, the loyal but aging faces in its audiences. Now the organization sees something different [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The city of Detroit is seeking a developer to team up with youth and community development nonprofit Heritage Works on an economic empowerment center planned for Corktown. [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy's plan to complete the last piece of the 5.5-mile Detroit RiverWalk has taken a step forward after more than a decade of negotiations. [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Eastern Michigan University President James Smith has signaled his plan to step down -- two years from now. Smith, 67, said June 20 that he'll depart at [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Detroit City Council on June 25 gave The Parade Co. another year to raise the funding needed to purchase the historic Brodhead Armory on Detroit's east riverfront. [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Matrix Human Services' President and CEO Brad Coulter is set to retire later this year. The organization has named COO Starr Allen-Pettway to succeed him in November. [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch Pope Francis Center has completed a new $40 million transitional housing site for the homeless in Detroit's Core City neighborhood. It funded the site through private donations [...]

Byline: Sherri Welch New funding is flowing to Macomb County to help grow nonprofit capacity in the high-need community. The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation has awarded Advancing Macomb a [...]