Fund Development
Save the Day Fund | Family Stability | Quality Housing | Economic Opportunity | Cortland Community Impact Center Campus
Support from dynamic funders each year sustains Wayne Metro’s impactful anti-poverty services. Wayne Metro develops federal, state, and local partnerships as well as donations and in kind supports from community members. Our mission to empower people and communities succeeds through our collective efforts.
In concert with the goals of Community Action programming at the state and national levels, Wayne Metro has identified four funding development priorities.
Save the Day Fund
Save the Day Fund, our unrestricted fund, allows Wayne Metro to direct resources toward unmet needs and fill service gaps. Save the Day Fund provides emergency assistance to individuals and families throughout Wayne County who are experiencing financial crisis, facing homelessness, or struggling to provide the basic needs of daily living for their family.
Family Stability
Family Stability includes early education services, literacy initiatives, afterschool/summer programs, and services for infants and pregnant mothers, healthcare access and workforce training.
Thank you to our Leadership Partners with an annual contribution by an organization of $10,000 or greater! Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Dollar General Literacy Foundation Karen Colina Wilson Foundation Living Arts Michigan Department of Education Michigan Health Endowment Fund Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Toyota Buckle Up For Life/Cincinnati Children’s United Way for Southeastern Michigan US Department of Health and Human Services Wayne RESA |
Quality Housing
Quality Housing supports include housing, utility assistance, and food access.
Thank you to our Leadership Partners with an annual contribution by an organization of $10,000 or greater! Canton Township City of Livonia City of River Rouge County of Wayne Detroit Water and Sewerage Detroit Wayne Mental Health Fifth Third Bank Great Lakes Water Authority Huntington Bank Michigan State Housing Development Authority Plymouth Housing Commission Westland Housing Commission United Way for Southeastern Michigan US Department of Housing and Urban Development US Department of Veteran’s Affairs |
Economic Opportunities
Economic Opportunities encompass financial coaching, matched savings accounts, community development impact projects, homebuyer education, and financial capabilities programming.
Thank you to our Leadership Partners with an annual contribution by an organization of $10,000 or greater! Chase Bank Chemical Bank DTE Energy Foundation Erb Family Foundation JP Morgan Chase & Co. Kresge Foundation PNC Bank United Way for Southeastern Michigan W.K. Kellogg Foundation |
Highlighted Project
Cortland Community Impact Center & Campus
Cortland Community Impact Center & Campus is a community and economic development project in the City of Highland Park along the Woodward Avenue Corridor aimed at renovating a former elementary school and a factory worker residence. Wayne Metro and community members will transform the elementary school into a full-scale educational and resource center as well as renovate the factory worker residence into 44 affordable apartments. A safe, sustainable campus is the vision for this Highland Park neighborhood.
