25, 2018, Phillips told Skillman Foundation employee Terry Whitfield that she is ... Garcia stressed the grants team "has raised tens of millions" for...more
That's the idea behind a philanthropy's latest bet on K-12 schools in Detroit. ... Previous philanthropic efforts to bolster Detroit's charter sector...more
Allen has been instrumental in many successful philanthropic, government and community initiatives, including: the 10-year, $120-million Good ... Year in 2015, a Crain's Detroit Business Newsmaker of...more
Connect Detroit, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that strives to address community problems by facilitating, and mobilizing funding in support of collaborative community solutions, has secured a...more
"Community change is best understood by those who it's directly happening to," says Keegan Mahoney, an advisor to the project on behalf of the Hudson-Webber Foundation, one of its local...more
... philanthropy has always worked with government at varying levels. Now, the city is stepping things up, offering an interesting case study of how far public officials can get with private...more
Teach for America is a social venture that hires graduating seniors from some of the most selective colleges and offers them with five-week training courses before unleashing them for a minimum of two years in some of the country’s worst classrooms.