An unlikely partnership has blossomed between the Mormon church and Zaman International, a nonprofit that serves mostly Middle Eastern Muslim women. Both faiths have more in common that it might appear on the surface.
Developing self-confidence and culinary skills are key to Zaman International's culinary program for women who are immigrants or refugees or face other barriers to employment.
Welcoming refugees to Michigan is part and parcel Zaman International's work with Welcome Corps
More than 2,000 applicants vied for grants from the Nonprofit Relief Fund, created to provide post-pandemic support to small nonprofits. Award announcements were made in early October. Grantees are able to use the unrestricted funding where it's needed most.
In Michigan, funding collaboratives are increasingly being employed to bring combined expertise from several funders together to tackle complex problems. Read about how the Michigan Justice Fund, Pontiac Funders Collaborative, and Community Foundation of St. Clair are forging change through untraditional funding models.
Michigan Nonprofit Association and the Michigan Department of Labor and Opportunity are overseeing a grant program for small Michigan nonprofits that are struggling post-pandemic.
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