News & Insights
From grantmaking updates to sharing what we’re learning from our community, grantee partners, and peers, we invite you to learn more about our ongoing work here.
McGregor Fund Trustees & Staff Celebrate Kate Levin Markel
For nearly 25 years, including eleven as president, Kate has upheld a fierce, unwavering dedication to the mission set forth by our founders and, most importantly, to the causes of hundreds of grant partners. For that, we are immeasurably grateful.
News & Insights
From grantmaking updates to sharing what we’re learning from our community, grantee partners, and peers, we invite you to learn more about our ongoing work here.
McGregor Fund Trustees & Staff Celebrate Kate Levin Markel
For nearly 25 years, including eleven as president, Kate has upheld a fierce, unwavering dedication to the mission set forth by our founders and, most importantly, to the causes of hundreds of grant partners. For that, we are immeasurably grateful.
Highlighting the Work of Our Grant Partners
From Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan - GSSEM:
📢 Join us at GSSEM's Annual Tough Enough Breakfast to honor Kate Levin Markel, President of the McGregor Fund!✨
When you join us at Elevate at One Campus Martius in Detroit on Thursday, September 10, 2026, from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM, you'll hear from each honoree as they explore the evolving world of work and discuss the critical role youth organizations, employers, communities, and philanthropies play in preparing girls to thrive as the next generation of leaders.
👉 See all 2026 honorees, get your tickets, or become a sponsor NOW: www.gssem.org/teb 👈
🎉 Please join us in celebrating our beloved Marcia Gardner, the McGregor Fund’s Grants Manager & Executive and Board Administrator. This August, Marcia is marking ten years of work with the Fund.
Marcia is the heartbeat of our team. Beyond assisting the McGregor staff and Board with compliance, grants management, and communications, she is the ultimate host. Every space that she touches is grounded in love and care.
All of us at the McGregor Fund thank you, Marcia, for your kind, ever-supportive leadership and your dedication to our grant partners. We love you Marcia and are so lucky to work with you! ❤️
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📣 Register for Medicaid & H.R. 1 webinar to be held on 8/19, presented by Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
MDHHS is inviting partners to attend a webinar to learn how the department will turn policy into practice, including who work requirements apply to, available exemptions and exclusions, ways to meet the requirements, verification processes, and other key implementation details.
🕰️ Wednesday, Aug. 19, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
➡️ More info and sign-up here: tinyurl.com/3747snm6
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📣 Sharing news: "The Transforming Solidarity Collective — a consortium of five Southeast Michigan nonprofit support groups that first came together during the Covid pandemic — have rejoined to serve as a single point of contact for nonprofits in crisis, connecting them with legal, financial, operational and advocacy support before their situations become unmanageable."
The Transforming Solidarity Collective is: Michigan Community Resources, Community Development Advocates of Detroit, Co.act Detroit, Michigan Nonprofit Association and Nonprofit Enterprise at Work.
From Shamyle Dobbs, Co-CEO of Michigan Community Resources:
“Across Southeast Michigan, nonprofits are operating in one of the most uncertain periods they have faced in decades. Rather than asking organizations to determine which intermediary, consultant or funder they should call or (to) navigate multiple intake processes, we are designing a shared front door and coordinated assessment process that connects leaders to the right expertise, at the right time, through the right partner. The goal is a seamless point of entry that assesses an organization’s needs holistically and coordinates support across the network.”
➡️ Read "Foundations pledge $2M to ramp up one-stop-shop for nonprofits in crisis" in Crain's Detroit Business: tinyurl.com/4pnm3wdb
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🎂 What does it mean to turn 100? It is a moment for humble, honest reflection. A time to consider our history, what has changed over a century of work, and where we are called moving forward.
🗣️ Today, we honor our founders, Tracy and Katherine McGregor, and we also acknowledge our mistakes and our complicity in systems that continue to harm our community.
❤️ We are grateful to bear witness to the radical love of nonprofits and their leaders who wrap their arms, with tenderness and determination, around our neighbors whose humanity is so often denied. As we move forward, we commit to holding ourselves accountable to Detroiters. To repairing harm. To returning power. To honoring their dreams, thriving, peace and joy.
➡️ Read more about the McGregor Fund's Centennial: mcgregorfund.org/100/
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McGregor Fund Founders
More than 100 years ago, the McGregors devoted their lives to community service – Tracy as an agency founder and social entrepreneur ending homelessness and unemployment for Detroit men, and Katherine as the founder and benefactor of an orphanage in Highland Park. Their proximity to people experiencing hardship and trauma informed their charitable giving and Tracy’s role as a civic leader.
McGregor Fund Founders
More than 100 years ago, the McGregors devoted their lives to community service – Tracy as an agency founder and social entrepreneur ending homelessness and unemployment for Detroit men, and Katherine as the founder and benefactor of an orphanage in Highland Park. Their proximity to people experiencing hardship and trauma informed their charitable giving and Tracy’s role as a civic leader.
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