Pontiac Funders Collaborative Grants
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
A place-based funder collaborative for Pontiac in the Detroit metro area, focused on economic stability for youth and families, thriving neighborhoods, and community resilience. Concept papers are reviewed by three separate bodies — a Funder Advisory Committee, a Community Advisory Committee, and a City-County Advisory Committee — so residents and local government sit inside the decision process alongside funders. Awarded projects have included data mapping and cash-assistance implementation, both of which carry evaluation and research partnership potential.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No published grant range. The page lists past awards (for example $200,000 to Community Housing Network and $1,000,000 to Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency for Rx Kids Pontiac) but presents these as individual grantee amounts, not an advertised range.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Invitation-based concept-paper process; no application deadlines are published on the page.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Grants are made through an invitation-based model: applicants submit concept papers, which pass through the funder, community and city-county advisory committees before final evaluation. Work must serve Pontiac, Michigan. The site does not publish an open application or a specific organizational-type gate; a social work researcher would ordinarily be a partner on a Pontiac-serving organization's concept paper rather than the lead applicant.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- place-based funding · economic stability · neighborhood investment · cash assistance
- Apply at
- https://cfsem.org/grant-opportunities/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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