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How Detroiters Are Shaping a Post-Industrial Riverfront Park
Sure, sometimes, the 22-acre space comes alive for the occasional outdoor concert, but for the most part, Detroit’s West Riverfront Park is pretty desolate compared to the city’s RiverWalk, just a few miles east and home to lush wetlands vegetation, family-friendly playgrounds and volleyball courts and spacious walkways that welcome three million visitors a year of all races and incomes.
Read the full article at Next City »Detroit Future City exec to lead new Center for Nonprofit Support
Detroit Future City’s deputy director, Allandra Bulger, has been named executive director of the first-of-its-kind nonprofit support and innovation center in development for Detroit, following a national search.
The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation is putting more than $5 million in grants over the next few years behind the center and has tapped the TechTown business incubator in Detroit to transfer the supportive approach and collaborative, innovative environment it has created for entrepreneurs to the region’s nonprofits through the new Center for Nonprofit Support. It’s also managing the day-to-day operations of the center, whose permanent name will be determined as part of a community engagement process.
Read the full article at Crain's Detroit Business »Right-on-Time Philanthropy at Ralph C. Wilson: Big Money Meets a Looming Problem
In 2016, NPQ wrote about the founding of the Ralph C. Wilson Foundation in Michigan. The emergence of the new philanthropy was made notable by a number of factors, including its $1.2 billion endowment and the fact that it will sunset or spend down within twenty years of its founding.
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