2017 Approved Grants

Children’s Healthcare

American Heart Association (Southfield, MI)
Support for CPR training kits for families with children in the NICU at Hurley Medical Center, Flint
$49,836
Beaumont Health Foundation (Royal Oak, MI) 
Purchase of a Robotic Surgical Assistant (ROSA) for pediatric epilepsy surgeries.

$671,250

Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI) 
Support for services to under-insured children with hearing losses.
$32,300
Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant, MI)
Support, over three years, for the expansion of the cochlear implant services program in the central, northern, and upper peninsula regions of Michigan.
$375,000
Concord School Health Center (Concord, MI)
Support for a medical records information system and a refrigerator to store vaccines.
$14,500
Covenant Community Care, Inc. (Detroit, MI) 
Capital support for the construction of a health center on Joy Road in Detroit.
$250,000
Henry Ford Health System (Detroit, MI) 
Purchase of NICU equipment for Henry Ford Hospital.
$250,000
Honor Health (Pontiac, MI) 
Capital support for renovations to expand pediatric services.

$240,000

International Aid (Spring Lake, MI) 
Support to provide equipment to three Michigan family health clinics, Helping Hands Clinic in South Lansing, Covenant Care in Westland, and Exalta Health in Grand Rapids.
$27, 600
Munson Healthcare Foundation (Traverse City, MI)
Capital support for the new NICU in the Family Birth & Children’s Center
$3,000,000
Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency (Pontiac, MI)
Capital support for the clinic exam rooms, waiting room, behavioral health, and purchase of hearing and vision screening equipment.
$145,925
Wayne Children’s Healthcare Access (Detroit, MI)
Support for pilot LENA start program.
$21,220

Children’s Human Services

Children’s Leukemia Foundation of Michigan (Farmington, MI) 
Purchase of a vehicle for the outreach coordinator.
$20,000
Christ Child House (Detroit, MI)
Support for interior renovations to the residential facility and for the purchase of a generator.
$75,000
Coalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS) (Detroit, MI) 
Capital improvements to restructure Peggy’s Place into a 140 bed, family-only shelter.
$300,000
Crossroads of Michigan (Detroit, MI) 
Support for the Parenting Support Program.
$50,000
Detroit Parent Network (Detroit, MI) 
Support for the Pathways to Literacy program
$50,000
Dickinson-Iron Intermediate School District (ISD) (Kingsford, MI) 
Purchase of an FM System for classrooms with hearing impaired students.
$11,337
Grand Rapids Oral Deaf Program (Grand Rapids, MI)
Purchase of 45 FM systems for classrooms with hearing impaired students.
$103,563
Lighthouse of Oakland County (Pontiac, MI)
Capital support for Lighthouse transitional housing duplexes
$28,000
Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities (Dearborn, MI)
Support for to establish a food pantry and purchase of an outreach van.
$75,000
Leelanau Christian Neighbors (Suttons Bay, MI) 
Purchase of a facility to operate human service programs.
$150,000
Michigan Hands and Voices (Rochester, MI) 
Support for the ASTRA program, an educational training and support program for parents and professionals working with students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
$34,825
Student Advocacy Center of Michigan (Ypsilanti, MI)
Support for student advocate program in Wayne County
$31,289
Vista Maria (Dearborn Heights, MI) 
Capital support for the Emergency Intake Wing of a new residential facility to house and treat victims of human trafficking.
$500,000

Preservation of Open Space

Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy (Traverse City, MI)
Support, 1:1 challenge over 5 years, for the Love the Land Pass it On…A Campaign for Generations for land protection
$3,000,000 
Keewanaw Land Trust (Hancock, MI)
Support for the purchase of a 100-acre addition to the Huron Bay Field Station and for the removal of an existing fence.
$100,000
Leelanau Conservancy (Leland, MI) 
Support, 1:1 challenge, for the protection of farmland in Leelanau County.
$250,000
Legacy Land Conservancy (Ann Arbor, MI) 
Support, 1:1 challenge, to complete the Emerald Arch Campaign.

$100,000

National Park Trust (Rockville, MD)
Support for the acquisition of property for Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
$40,000
The Nature Conservancy, Inc. - Michigan Chapter (Lansing, MI)
Support for the purchase and preservation of the 6,000-acre parcel in the Michigamme Highlands, over 5 years.
$2,500,000
The Nature Conservancy, Inc. – Michigan Chapter (Lansing, MI)
Support for the purchase and preservation of property on the Northpoint Peninsula, over 3 years.
$1,500,000
Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy (Rochester, MI) 
Support for the purchase of properties for the Anchor Bay Woods Preserve
$100,000