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Community Foundation awards Greening of Detroit funds for greenway maintenance

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2010
Development News - Model D

"Build them and they will come" turns out to be not quite enough for greenways. Bike lanes and pedestrian walkways require maintenance and community buy-in to be successful, which is exactly what a $147,000 grant to Greening of Detroit from the GreenWays Initiative of the Community
Foundation for Southeast Michigan aims to ensure.

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Purple Rose awarded performance grant

Posted Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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Stopping Detroit's brain drain: The city is pushing for new businesses, arts and a revitalized downtown to keep young people in this hard-hit town.

By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: September 21, 2009: 2:04 PM ET

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THE YOUNG AND THE HELPFUL: Newer volunteers may hold the key to metro nonprofits' futures

Posted: Sept. 22, 2009
BY JEWEL GOPWANI
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

Metro Detroit's charities -- long reliant on corporate giving and older donors -- may come to depend on younger people like Mary Kay Jerneycic, 36, of Beverly Hills.

Jerneycic, who grew up watching her parents support the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, is one of eight people organizing a $50 afterglow to the soup kitchen's annual fund-raising dinner.

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Detroit-Area Arts Organizations Praise CFSEM’s Fundraising Challenge

by Mike Gallagher for the CMF NewsWire

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Food activist: Madoff loss just a bump - Nonprofit out to fix 'broken' system

Posted at 8:00 pm, September 13, 2009

^By^{Sherri Begin Welch}

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In Focus: In Between Transit, The Dequindre Cut

September 11th, 2009 by Sarah Szurpicki (Great Lakes Urban Exchange - GLUE)

The rails-to-trails concept isn’t new. Neither is urban greenspace. Bike lanes have been paved before. And yet, to a Detroiter, the opening of the Dequindre Cut this May felt almost revolutionary.

The Dequindre Cut is one mile of paved bike and walking lanes, with an adjacent greensward that could, in the future, be used for light rail–and currently functions as a picnic spot–which run from Lafayette to one of Detroit’s greatest community assets, Eastern Market. It’s a “cut” b

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DOWNRIVER: Greenway Project Receives $25,000 Grant

The Downriver Linked Greenways Initiative received a boost recently with a $25,000 grant.

The money was given by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to the Greenways for its effort of connecting people and nature.

The Greenways was one of 25 nonprofit groups in the region that was given a grant.

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Nonprofit's Hope: Make Neighborhood a Place to Call Home, Not a Place to Flee

When Focus: HOPE CEO William Jones took the helm of the nonprofit earlier this year, he looked at its success during its first 40 years in a different way.

He stressed all of the good work the nonprofit had done in the past, but said “"we give people training to get jobs that will allow them to move out of this community,'” said Brenda Knight, Detroit program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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