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State-based grantmaking

Michigan

Power-Building Strategies

  • Community Organizing
  • Strategic Communications
  • Policy Advocacy
  • Voter Participation and Education
  • Coalition Building

Who Our Grantees Organize

  • Black
  • Indigenous
  • Latinx
  • AAPI
  • Immigrant
  • Middle Eastern
  • Multiracial
  • Women/Femme/Nonbinary
  • Youth
  • Urban
  • Suburban
  • Rural

Michigan Grantees

  • Soulardarity

    Soulardarity is building energy democracy in Highland Park, MI and their neighboring communities with education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy. They are working to install solar-powered street lights, save residents money on energy bills and with our neighboring communities build a just and equitable energy system for all.

  • Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC)

    The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition works to achieve a clean, healthy, and safe environment for Michigan residents most affected by inadequate policies. They work in alignment with the Principles of Environmental Justice, and cultivate relationships based on the Jemez Principles.

  • Detroit Action Education Fund

    Detroit Action Education Fund, is a grassroots, member-led, multigenerational, community-based organization fighting for racial and economic justice for working-class Detroiters. Their mission is to build up individuals and families to challenge the root cause of poverty, advance justice, and promote human development through neighborhood-driven community organizing and nonpartisan civic engagement.

  • Michigan United

    Michigan United is a statewide organization of community members and institutions fighting for the dignity and potential of every person. They are committed to a participatory democracy at every level, an economy that works for the many, a nation that dismantles racism, and a society that uplifts our common humanity.

  • We Want Green Too (WWG2)

    The “We Want Green, Too!” purpose is to facilitate a secure learning environment that will use the classroom, a specially designed online platform, and hands on trainings that will equalize the learning environment for differently-abled veterans and returning citizens experiencing difficulty in learning new 21st century skill sets.

  • We the People Michigan (WTP)

    We The People Michigan works to build multi-racial, working class organizing capacity and infrastructure across the state of Michigan, advance a proactive and aspirational agenda of the state we deserve, and advance a statewide strategy to contend for long-term power in Michigan to enact that vision.

Issues They Work On

Michigan By The Numbers

6
Grantees
92 %
Grantees Led by People of Color
3
Years in Our Portfolio