Monday, February 17, 2020

Over $30,000 in CFNEM Census grants were awarded through our second round of grants to help get out the count for northeast Michigan. Check them out! https://www.cfnem.org/…/community-foundation-announces-3000…

Friday, February 14, 2020

Happy Valentine's Day from your friends at the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan!

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Wondering what Grant the Giving Tuesday Golden Goose is up to these days? For a goose he’s pretty busy. Grant has been attending Alpena County Animal Facility board meetings, adoption events and fundraisers. Back at Christmas time (pictured here), he spent the holidays with some foster puppies before wishing them well at their new forever homes. If Grant looks a little mad in this picture it’s only because Grant though the Christmas turkey might have been a distant cousin, but his hosts assured him that was not the case.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Our Straits Area Community Foundation (SACF) affiliate just awarded over $8,600 through the SACF Community Impact grants and Straits Area Youth Advisory Council (YAC) grants. Grants were awarded to support Cheboygan County Habitat for Humanity, Straits Area Services (program pictured here), new snowshoes that can be rented in the City of Cheboygan, and several more. Check them all out here: https://www.cfnem.org/…/straits-area-community-foundation-a…

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

For Cheboygan County and Mackinaw City nonprofits! If you have a youth-related project, or a program that affects youth in the Straits Area, apply for grant funding! The Straits Area Youth Advisory Council (YAC) spring grant deadline is March 15. Get the application and guidelines at sacf.net under “Grants”.

Friday, February 7, 2020

Shout out to our affiliate foundation, the Straits Area Community Foundation! The Foundation awarded over $56,000 in local grants and scholarships in 2019, supporting projects that fed hungry kids, kept families warm in the winter, helped renovate a library, taught children to skate, supported health care for uninsured residents, and more.

This wonderful group of leaders is motivated and dedicated to promoting philanthropy and supporting Cheboygan County and Mackinaw City so ...more good can be done locally today, and forever.

We often post about our “affiliate foundations”, which are community foundations that fall under the CFNEM umbrella administratively. SACF is one those, and its grants, scholarships, outreach, activities and the like are all overseen by a board of incredible local members in each affiliate’s service area.

Donations given to the Straits Area Community Foundation are always used to benefit the Straits Area, and because of its affiliation with CFNEM, every practice and policy of SACF is held within National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations – a distinction given only through a rigorous accreditation process so you can rest assured that your gift is used the way you want. Give for today. Give for GOOD.

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Make sure you, your neighbors and friends are counted Northeast Michigan!

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

We are proud to be able to put some grant funding toward purchasing these ice rescue boats for Presque Isle Township Fire Department. Here they are being used for training. A $3,800 CFNEM Community Impact grant supported this important project.

Monday, February 3, 2020

If you know an Iosco County resident doing great things for their community, please help us honor them!

Saturday, February 1, 2020

All scholarship applications are due March 1st. Don’t let your chance at free money for school pass by you or a loved one! Visit cfnem.org to apply. If you’re in Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency or Presque Isle Counties, look for the blue piggy bank image. If you’re in Cheboygan Iosco, Crawford, Ogemaw or Oscoda Counties, head for the green piggy bank image.

Friday, January 31, 2020

Congrats Joyce! Proud to have this woman in our community and on our board!

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Michigan communities could lose thousands of dollars if everyone is not counted.

Your families and neighbors need your support to make sure everyone is counte...d.

The Census only takes about 10 minutes. Seems worth it doesn't it?

#MIVoiceCounts2020

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

This week we welcome new CFNEM team member Laurie Nugent.

Laurie is a new Program Director at the Community Foundation and will be working with our scholarship program. She spent the past ten years working at Hillman Community Schools before joining our staff. As a mother of two CFNEM scholarship recipients, she has a good feel for the impact a scholarship can have on a student. Welcome Laurie!

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Let's make sure every Northeast Michigander is counted in the 2020 Census! There is much at stake for our communities.

Thursday, January 23, 2020

For Iosco County organizations - Grant opportunity coming up quick!

Thursday, January 16, 2020

What a cool project – and one that kind of brings on Spring Fever! The Alcona Community Garden provides hands-on educational opportunities, provides food for the community, and will help provide healthy meals for the schools’ cafeterias. A $3,000 Community Impact Grant to Alcona Community Schools helped construct raised beds, update irrigation and purchase a hoop house.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Even if it's just you at your home, you still count.

Filling out the Census allows for your voice to be heard. If even one person is missed, the state of Michi...gan could lose thousands a year of federal funding. There will not be another recount until 2030.

Do it for your community. When everyone is counted, everyone wins. #MIVoiceCounts2020

Monday, January 13, 2020

This is one grant with potential for huge impact on many lives. $5,500 in grants through our North Central Michigan affiliate went to the Crawford Roscommon Child Protection Council to support their “Safe Journey Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative”. This program aims to reduce the number of newborns exposed or addicted to drugs and alcohol through education and prevention. Part of the program educates individuals and the community on the effect opioids, alcohol, marijuana and tobacco can have on an unborn child, and the lifelong effect it can have on children. Grants came from the Oscoda and Ogemaw County Health Care Initiative Funds and the Crawford County Community Endowment Fund to purchase educational materials for the program.

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Extending the biggest, warmest and most sincere “thank you” to each and every donor who has supported the Community Foundation, and in turn, has supported all of the nonprofits and students we are able to help because of your gifts. You are amazing, and we thank you!