Extra! Extra! The Grayling Community Garden received a $2,500 grant from our North Central Michigan Community Foundation to provide cement pads for additional raised beds, giving those with physical limitations accessibility to garden more easily....
Your legacy is YOUR legacy. And you get to decide what that looks like. Stories from the people in this video, along with the stories of many others, make up the Foundation’s Legacy Society. What will your legacy be? https://bit.ly/3XSB01T
The welfare of our community includes the health and social needs affecting it. We encourage you to take a few minutes and fill out the Community Health Needs Assessment hosted by MyMichigan Health. The survey has been extended and will remain open...
Congratulations to the city of Onaway on your receipt of a $749,100 DNR Spark Grant, and for being featured on the Rural Innovation Exchange! CFNEM was the regional collaborative lead in Northeast Michigan which provided support in obtaining this grant....
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, and with the knowledge of northeast Michigan’s issues surrounding housing, the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan (CFNEM) is granting a total of $50,000 through three grants to Target Alpena Development...
The Northeast Michigan Women’s Giving Circle (WGC) just completed its 17th annual round of grantmaking specifically for issues important to women in northeast Michigan. The $44,778 in grants include funding for food pantries, a youth development...
Your legacy is YOUR legacy. And you get to decide what that looks like. Stories from the people in this video, along with the stories of many others, make up the Foundation’s Legacy Society. What will your legacy be? https://bit.ly/3XSB01T
CFNEM is happy to announce more than $104,000 in new Community Impact Grants supporting 33 northeast Michigan nonprofit projects and programs. Grants include projects that help to build affordable housing; put food on people’s tables; help to preserve...
Thanks to a $500 grant from the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan Women's Giving Circle the Friends of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary were able to provide bases for two of the four benches encircling the Sanctuary Labyrinth Project....
@headwaterslandconservancynemi assists landowners in stewarding their land by bringing the resources of local organizations. A $1,500 CFNEM Community Impact Grant helped to provide mobile hardware for this long-term outreach program resulting in more...
Thank you for the shout out! Scholarships like this are only possible because of the generosity of our community members with a giving spirit and vision for the future. A scholarship from the Harry & Jennie Grove Trade School & Post-Secondary Education...
Our North Central Michigan Community Foundation (NCMCF) Affiliate just awarded over $25,000 through their 2024 Community Impact Grants. Projects funded include a “Music in the Park” project, support for the Imagination Library, the “Kids Have...
A $750 grant awarded to the Eastern National Forest Interpretive Association from the Youth Advisory Council of our affiliate Iosco County Community Foundation for Smokey’s 80th Birthday Celebration allowed them to set up a comfortable location and...
In the world of philanthropy, this is praiseworthy! “The National Park Foundation, the fundraising arm of the U.S. National Park Service, says it has received the largest grant in its history: $100 million from the Indiana-based Lilly Endowment....
Friendly reminder to our nonprofit friends! Applications for participation in the 2024 Giving Tuesday Northeast Michigan campaign are due by September 20. If you are wanting to raise funds, awareness, and support for your organization, don’t miss...
Welcome back to all our Youth Advisory Council (YAC) members from the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan and our affiliate members in the Iosco County Community Foundation, the North Central Michigan Community Foundation, and the Straits Area...
Grant applications for the fall grant cycle of our Northeast Michigan Youth Advisory Council (NEMYAC) Grant are due October 15. Nonprofits with projects benefitting youth in Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency, and/or Presque Isle Counties are welcome to apply...
Did you know today is "The International Day of Charity"? The day was created to raise awareness all over the world that simple acts of charity can make a difference. It was chosen to be on September 5 in order to commemorate the anniversary of the...
A $1,000 grant from the Straits Area Community Foundation helped provide the Cheboygan County Habitat for Humanity with the critical tools necessary to build, rehab and repair homes in the Cheboygan County area. These tools will allow them to accommodate...
From all of us at CFNEM ~ Thank You for all your hard work! Have a safe and restful Labor Day!!