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The Skillman Foundation awards several types of grants. Its main grantmaking is made to nonprofit organizations with federal tax-exempt status (501C3) that implement programs in the Foundation’s three program areas: Good Schools, Good Neighborhoods and Good Opportunities.

The Foundation offers a limited number of President’s Discretionary grants. These are grants up to $40,000, approved by the Foundation’s President and CEO, and awarded primarily for fundraising events, conferences, task forces, policy briefings, press conferences, public release of data or short-term ad hoc purposes that further the Foundation’s primary work. These grants are highly competitive.

The Foundation makes a limited number of scholarship grants to graduated high school students of the Foundation’s Skillman Scholars program, who are enrolled in college or university.

The Foundation also makes matching gifts to nonprofit tax-exempt organizations on a two-to-one ratio, to support the charitable giving of its Staff and active and retired Trustees.

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Jan, 2010 Henry Ford Health System Foundation 2009 Matching Gift $4,000
Jan, 2010 Oakland University Foundation 2009 Matching Gift $2,000
Jan, 2010 Wayne State University Foundation 2009 Matching Gift $2,000
Jan, 2010 Alternatives for Girls This grant will support and expand a successful youth-leadership development program currently operating in Southwest Detroit in all six target neighborhoods. $125,000
Jan, 2010 Black Family Development, Inc. 13th Annual President's Dinner on December 4, 2009 $1,500
Jan, 2010 Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan This grant will improve facilities and expand programming for middle-school youth, particularly boys, in the Osborn neighborhood. $100,000
Jan, 2010 Brandeis University This grant will enhance the Foundation's ability to align and monitor its strategies through the work of the 2016 Task Force and to be informed by a high-level study of the change making strategy. $180,000
Jan, 2010 Bridging Communities, Inc. This grant will support the development of a youth-employment home repair and senior services program. It will also foster resident engagement in the Chadsey/Condon neighborhood of Southwest Detroit. $85,000
Jan, 2010 Brightmoor Community Center This grant will expand programming for youth ages 13-18 through the implementation of teen leadership-development activities in the Brightmoor community. $100,000
Jan, 2010 Christus Victor Lutheran Church 2009 Matching Gift $3,120
Jan, 2010 City Mission This grant will support programs that provide educational, character development and life-skills enrichment support for children ages 11 to 18 who reside in the Brightmoor Community. $100,000
Jan, 2010 City Year, Inc. This grant will continue support for full-time volunteers to provide tutoring, mentoring, after-school programs, Saturday service learning programs, volunteer engagement and service projects delivered to youth and residents in the six neighborhoods. $200,000
Jan, 2010 Communities in Schools of Detroit, Inc. This grant will provide operating support for the organization's continued leadership in offering after-school programming in more than 100 schools in neighborhoods with high concentrations of children and limited services. $150,000
Jan, 2010 Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan 2009 Matching Gift $7,000
Jan, 2010 Cornerstone Schools Association This grant will sustain high quality education options for Detroit students. It provides funding to hire a highly qualified CEO to lead the new charter schools associated with Cornerstone Schools. $125,000
Jan, 2010 Covenant Community Care Inc. This grant will provide first-year start-up operational funds to launch a new OB/Pediatrics Integrated Care facility in the Chadsey/Condon target neighborhood. $100,000
Jan, 2010 Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation This grant continues to support an arts-based after school program in Southwest Detroit for youth 12-18 that build skills in academics, entrepreneurship, graphic art design, videography, music production and silk screening. $230,000
Jan, 2010 Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation Dream Makers Gala on November 13, 2009 $1,500
Jan, 2010 Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Support an art contest for children to submit illustrations for Rochelle Riley's new book "Raising A Daughter: Lessons My Daughter Taught Me While We Grew Up Together." $5,000
Jan, 2010 Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation, Inc. For the study by New Solutions Group, LLC to document the impact of skilled immigrants on the economy and to develop strategies to better connect the Detroit Region to global sources of talent $15,000