Enterprise Community Partners has announced grants totaling $23.7 million in support of 32 Detroit nonprofit organizations with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) leaders or beneficiaries.

Grants awarded in the phase two funding will support community development organizations, (CDOs), helping both large, established organizations and small, emerging groups expand community development programs and services, hire additional staff, obtain additional funding and technical assistance, and access peer learning opportunities. A total of $19.1 million in grants was awarded through the organization’s CDO Fund, with recipients including Brightmoor Alliance, Eastside Community Network, LifeBUILDERS, North End Woodward Community Coalition, and The Villages CDC. The remaining $4.6 million was awarded through the Elevating Community Development Organization (ECDO) Fund, which is specifically focused on smaller, BIPOC-led CDOs, with recipients including 360 Detroit, Inc., North Corktown Neighborhood Association, and Renaissance of Hope.

The funding includes increased support from the Kresge Foundation, new funding from Ballmer Group and the Gilbert Family Foundation, and sustained support from the Ford, Hudson-Webber, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr., and W.K. Kellogg foundations.

“Since their launch, Enterprise’s CDO funds have been a model for how to center racial equity and support local organizations’ impactful work in neighborhoods that have experienced historic disinvestment,” Melinda Clemons, vice president of the central Midwest market at Enterprise Community Partners. “Thanks to our dynamic partnership of forward-thinking funders, we can help even more organizations continue their community-sustaining work.”

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