• The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan was founded in 1984 as a permanent community endowment, built with gifts from hundreds of individuals and organizations committed to a strong future for southeast Michigan.

• With more than $670 million in assets, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan ranks among the top 30 community foundations in the nation in terms of total assets and grantmaking.

• Since its founding 24 years ago, the Community Foundation has distributed more than $311 million in more than 30,000 grants to charitable projects in southeast Michigan's seven-county area.

• Dedicated to strengthening the quality of life throughout southeast Michigan, the Community Foundation works to encourage charitable giving in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, St. Clair and Monroe counties.

• The Community Foundation is governed by a board of 55 community leaders which awards grants to support a wide variety of activities and programs benefiting education, arts and culture, health, human services, community development and civic affairs in the seven-county region of southeast Michigan.

• The Community Foundation brings together individuals and organizations to work toward community wide solutions to important challenges facing the region.

• Building community capital is at the heart of the Community Foundation's organizational mission. The Community Foundation works to encourage endowment-building as an effective means to address community challenges and opportunities. The Community Foundation builds flexible endowment funds that can meet changing needs. More than 160 nonprofit organizations are currently building endowments with the Community Foundation.

For more information, contact:
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, (313) 961-6675 or 1-888-WE-ENDOW (1-888-933-6369).

Update June 27, 2008