Detroit

• Friends of the Detroit Public Library Inc.
  Amount: $866,000
  To introduce a Technology, Literacy & Career Center at the Parkman Branch that will expand computer access provide technology and assist customers in developing basic literacy and life skills
• Community Telecommunications Network
  Amount: $810,000
  To enable the Detroit Connected Community Initiative to provide high-speed Internet access in two large, low-income Detroit neighborhoods, utilizing WiMAX and Wi-Fi technology
• College for Creative Studies
  Amount: $1,010,000
  To provide a new anchor institution in the northern-most end of Detroit's proposed "Creative Corridor"
• Henry Ford Health System
  Amount: $250,000
  To fund predevelopment activities that will expand the Henry Ford Community Health Park campus in the city of Detroit
• Michigan State Housing Development Authority
  Amount: $50,000
  To support the second Creative Cities Summit hosted in the city of Detroit, October 12 - 15, 2008; an international Summit that aspires to attract attendees that rethink and redesign cities to compete in a global economy
• United Way for Southeastern Michigan
  Amount: $1,025,000
  To support a funders collaborative in the Detroit metro region that will develop critical workforce partnerships between employers, workforce development agencies, community-based organizations and the philanthropic community

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