Foundations are stepping up their assistance, and by assistance we mean cash, in a big way for the recovery of Detroit.
Excerpt from
NonProfit Times:
Foundations and other nonprofits are pouring hundreds of millions, and
probably billions of dollars into trying to repair the city and
surrounding southeastern Michigan. The word probably is used because
nobody is keeping count nor is there any real compilation of results
between organizations that are trying to save the city.
According to the Michigan Nonprofit Association in
Lansing, Mich., approximately 60 community development organizations
are doing work in the city. The Council of Michigan Foundations in
Grand Haven, Mich., reports $107,724,884 in grants has been paid out
for the metro-Detroit area during the past year.
From bettering schools, to eating right, to developing
new businesses, nonprofits throughout Detroit and across the region
are betting the city can come back, albeit a smaller version of its
prior self.
"There is a real belief in this city," Thorland said. "Detroit offers a
unique opportunity to create a blueprint of how the urban context can
change for the better. This is the paradigm for the new American city."
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