In 2023, the Steelcase Foundation awarded Davenport University a three-year $500,000 grant to support Casa Latina, a full suite of academic online programs, services, and wraparound supports using a dual language, multicultural model. Hear from Casa Latina's Executive Director Carlos Sanchez as he shares his insights into the program.
In 2024, Streams of Hope received a three-year $90,000 grant to support its StreamsU, Tutoring, and SWAG multi-generational programming. Hear from Executive Director Kurtis Kaechele, as he shares his insights…
From the August 2025 Steelcase Foundation Newsletter
Name and Role with the Organization Dr. Keli Swearingen, Senior Director for Michigan Partnerships, Leading Educators Provide a brief overview of your organization and its primary goals. Leading Educators is…
Name and Role with the Organization: Shannon L. Harris, Executive Director - Our Community’s Children Brief overview of your organization and its primary goals: Our Community’s Children (OCC) is a…
In 2023, the Steelcase Foundation awarded Gilda's Club Grand Rapids a two-year $50,000 grant to support Tough Stuff, which provides in-school social and emotional support to students at Grand Rapids…
Since 2020, the Steelcase Foundation has supported Realism is Loyalty’s Each One Teach One Intensive Mentorship program, which provides community-based individual behavior and health services for youth engaged in the…
In 2024, the Steelcase Foundation awarded Friends of Grand Rapids Parks a two-year $50,000 grant to support its Youth Forestry program, which includes its Youth Green Team, as well as…
Since 2023, the Steelcase Foundation has supported Legal Services Alabama's John Lewis Fellowship which trains recent law graduates for careers in public interest law and social justice work. In January,…
The sanctuary was pin-drop silent and electric as a group of about 100 immigrant parishioners heard the last report-out from a small group in a mass “house meeting.” House meetings,…