Event
Advancing Macomb Summer Soirée 2024
June 12th, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Youngblood Vineyard, 61829 Ray Center Road, Ray Twp., MI 48096
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Blog Post
A Message from The Executive Director
Posted April 1, 2024
As the new Executive Director of Advancing Macomb, I am grateful for the opportunity to lead this organization. I am inspired as I look to the future. We have tremendous opportunities to expand Advancing Macomb’s reach throughout Macomb County, and we are already getting started.
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In the News
Nonprofit to add co-working space in new Mount Clemens home, program expansion
Posted March 20, 2024
Crain's Detroit Business, March 20, 2024 - Macomb Foster Closet is set to expand its services for foster and adopted youth and families from a newly acquired site in Mount Clemens... Research that Advancing Macomb completed with the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University showed Macomb County's nonprofit sector is under-resourced and under-developed, said Phil Gilchrist, executive director of Advancing Macomb, an agency working to increase nonprofit capacity and leverage resources to assist on complex issues in the county.
“Small nonprofits in the county need support and resources to be more impactful in their missions and more successful as organizations,” he said. “Access to affordable co-working space establishes new sector infrastructure in Macomb County and helps create an environment for nonprofits to grow and thrive.”...
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In the News
New bridge will span spillway
Posted March 15, 2024
Mount Clemens-Clinton-Harrison Journal | Published March 14, 2024 - HARRISON TOWNSHIP — A new way to cross the Clinton River Spillway will soon arrive.
Harrison Township is building a new pedestrian bridge to connect the spillway along Jefferson Avenue, budgeting $3.45 million for the bridge and associated walkways. The pedestrian bridge will supplement the existing bridge at the mouth of the spillway, which is designed for automobiles and challenging for nonmotorized traffic to safely cross.
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Show Me the Money Day Highlights Financial and Community Resources
Posted March 13, 2024
Advancing Macomb and the Eastpointe Memorial Library partnered to hold a Show Me the Money Day (SMTMD) event on Saturday, March 9, 2024. This free event was designed to provide community members with access to essential financial products, resources and workshops in a fun and enjoyable atmosphere.
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Nonprofit Spotlight: Lakeshore Legal Aid
Posted March 5, 2024
Through the Nonprofit Spotlight series, Advancing Macomb highlights the work of a Macomb-County-based nonprofit. This month we feature Lakeshore Legal Aid. Lakeshore Legal Aid is a not-for-profit law firm providing free legal services to individuals who have low-income, older adults aged 60 and above, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Lakeshore assists with a wide variety of civil legal areas, like housing issues, family law, consumer law, protection from abuse, education advocacy, estate planning, public benefits law, and more.
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In the News
New pedestrian bridge over Clinton River to link miles of trails along Lake St. Clair
Posted February 28, 2024
Crain's Detroit Business - February 28, 2024 - Plans for a new pedestrian bridge along the Lake St. Clair waterfront in Harrison Township are moving forward with a $1 million grant from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation. When complete, the new crossing over the Clinton River spillway will improve pedestrian safety and provide a new link in the Great Lakes Way trail system, a developing series of greenways and water trails stretching from southern Lake Huron near Port Huron to western Lake Erie near Toledo.
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Press Release
Advancing Macomb Awarded $1 Million Grant From The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation To Build Pedestrian Bridge Over Clinton River Spillway
Posted February 26, 2024
Mount Clemens, Mich. (Feb. 22, 2024) – Advancing Macomb, a 501c3 that convenes resources to solve community challenges and enrich the lives of Macomb County residents, was awarded a $1 million grant from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation to build a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over the Clinton River Spillway in Harrison Township.
The grant was awarded in partnership with the Macomb County Department of Planning & Economic Development. It will be added to other funding sources to complete the project. The estimated cost for this project is $3.5 million, and construction is expected to begin this year.
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Event
Show Me the Money Day Eastpointe
March 9th, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Eastpointe Memorial Library, 15875 Oak, Eastpointe, MI 48021
Categories: Advancing Macomb, Business, Communities, Development and Projects, Economy, Nonprofits, Workforce/Education
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Advancing Macomb benefits from hockey team’s ugly jersey auction
Posted January 29, 2024
January 27, 2024 - Macomb Daily - Motor City Rockers’ hockey jerseys appear to be a hot commodity.
Even the ugly ones.
That is evident by the donations that the minor league professional hockey team has been making to local charities.
Among the latest recipients is Advancing Macomb, a nonprofit organization that works to solve community challenges and enrich the lives of community members, which received a donation of $1,500 during a home game at Big Boy Arena in Fraser. The donation was garnered through an online auction of jerseys designed to look like ugly Christmas sweaters that players wore during a home game sponsored by Bell’s Brewery.
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