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KIDS MATTER HERE Foundation news and highlights |
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Thanksgiving Parade winners see artwork come alive  Two talented school girls saw their artistic creations come to life as winners of the 17th Annual Skillman Foundation float and balloon design contest.
Emirene Munoz, an eighth grader from Clippert Academy in Detroit, and Julissa Madrigal (pictured at right), a seventh grader from Earhart Middle School in Detroit, are this year's winners. Munoz's drawing of "Elephante" inspired a vibrant, 20-foot-tall playful balloon, and Madrigal's "Our Aquarium" was transformed into a life-size captivating float, complete with seaweed and whales. Both creations will be featured in America's Thanksgiving Parade. To read more, please click here. Grantmaking during tough economic times Skillman Foundation President & CEO Carol Goss and other national philanthropy leaders and experts talked with the New York Times about how the current financial crisis effects foundation's grantmaking. In last week's special section about giving, the New York Times examined whether philanthropy will take a hit with fewer individual charitable contributions and shrinking endowments. To read the New York Times article, please click here. Grant to help collect, organize neighborhood data The Skillman and Kresge foundations are partnering on a grant that will create a powerful, new regional data system with comprehensive information needed to promote economic prosperity in southeastern Michigan. City Connect Detroit Inc. will coordinate the development and operation of the Detroit-Area Community Indicators Systems, funded by the foundations with an initial three-year, $1.85 million grant. "Access to accurate, current information about neighborhoods is critical to community-change initiatives nationally and internationally," said Marie Colombo, Skillman's knowledge management officer. To read more about this grant, please click here. Neighborhood education meetings set for December Fix our schools. That's what we've been hearing from Detroiters involved in the Skillman Foundation's Good Neighborhoods work for the past three years. America's Promise recently ranked the 50 largest U.S. school districts on high school graduation rates, and Detroit was rated worst. Our children deserve better. The Skillman Foundation wants Good Schools for all Detroit kids. Other big-city school districts are making great strides in improving their high schools -- and Detroit can, too. The Foundation will hold a series of neighborhood meetings in December on how to fix Detroit schools. The meetings are targeted at residents of the Cody/Rouge, Brightmoor, Northend, Osborn, Chadsey/Condon and Vernor neighborhoods, but anyone may attend. To see a complete meeting schedule and learn more about this initiative, please click here.
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