Hudson-Webber Foundation announced over $2 million in grants, empowering organizations whose missions align with the foundation’s focus on advancing equity and opportunity for all Detroiters.
Content excerpted and adapted from a Hudson-Webber Foundation press release.
Hudson-Webber Foundation announced over $2 million in grants, empowering organizations whose missions align with the foundation’s focus on advancing equity and opportunity for all Detroiters.
In addition to providing funding for several programs that expand resident-centered approaches to reducing and preventing violence, the grants awarded also strengthen community and economic development efforts in neighborhoods throughout the city, and enable research and advocacy to advance equity.
The foundation’s support for community-based violence intervention infrastructure in the current slate of grants aligns with previous investments in strategies that take a preventative approach to violence by addressing the root causes of crime, leveraging trusted peacekeepers in the community to intervene in and mitigate conflict, and connect people to services that reduce the likelihood of violence.
“This is an important moment for investment in efforts to build neighborhood safety,” Melanca Clark, president and CEO of Hudson-Webber Foundation and CMF trustee said. “The sustained work of Detroit leaders advancing community-based violence intervention initiatives is being met by action at the federal level, providing an opportunity to help position the field to access substantial public funding for scaling proven and innovative approaches to address violence, where residents are at the center of devising solutions that advance peace and community well-being.”
Additionally, the Foundation has approved two in memoriam grants, to the Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, to honor the legacy of Hudson-Webber trustee and former foundation president and CEO, Gilbert Hudson.
Hudson was also one of the individuals who helped to form the Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF), working closely with Dottie Johnson (now president-emeritus of CMF). Hudson and Johnson collaborated to formally establish CMF to serve as the collective voice of Michigan philanthropy, particularly in state and federal policy and advocacy issues.
Hudson served on CMF’s Board of Trustees from 1973 to 2002, with the exception of a one-year hiatus in 1995.
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