Knight Foundation gives $5 million plus to nonprofits
The Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded more than $5 million to Southeast Michigan nonprofits Wednesday morning.
The largest grant of $1.08 million to Cranbrook Educational Community and the Arts League of Michigan will fund joint programming and exhibits between the two, enabling Cranbrook to establish a presence in Detroit.
The grants are aimed at strengthening Detroit's creative community, increasing job training and expanding free Internet access.
Other grants were:
• $1.03 million to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to fund management of a new funders' collaborative to train workers for the city's health care and green economy jobs.
• $1.01 million to the College for Creative Studies to help fund the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education, a $145 million economic development project to transform General Motors Corp.'s historic Argonaut Building into an educational complex devoted to creativity.
• $866,000 to the Friends of the Detroit Public Library to expand free Internet access to the public at the Parkman Branch Library through construction of a new technology and literacy center that will be able to serve an additional 400 people each day.
• $810,000 to Wayne State University as fiduciary for the Detroit Connected Community Initiative, a collaborative effort to increase high speed Internet access to two large, low-income Detroit neighborhoods, Central Woodward on the city's north end and Osborn in the northeast. Other partners in the effort include: Community Telecommunications Network, Focus: HOPE, 4Cs/Family Place and Matrix Human Services.
• $500,000 to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to expand and diversify its audience by funding a community concert series at churches, schools and malls.
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