The needs of Southeast Michigan’s growing immigrant and refugee populations are a focus of a new partnership between The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM), The Kresge Foundation and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR).

The group, known as the Southeast Michigan Immigrant and Funder Collaborative, will work with funders, nonprofits and other key stakeholders to determine the most impactful methods for providing support to the more than 600,000 foreign-born residents of Michigan, over 70 percent of whom live in Southeast Michigan.

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