The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan recently announced that the City of Chelsea was awarded $25,000 for the design of Letts Linear Park as part of more than $17 million in grant awards.
In addition, the State of Michigan was awarded $10,000 to construct a nature play area and an accessible trail at the Eddy Discovery Center.
About the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is a full-service philanthropic organization leading the way to positive change in our region. As a permanent community endowment built by gifts from thousands of individuals and organizations, the Foundation supports a wide variety of activities benefiting education, arts and culture, health, human services, community development, and civic affairs.
Since its inception, the foundation has distributed nearly $941 million through more than 61,000 grants to nonprofit organizations throughout Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Washtenaw, St. Clair, and Livingston counties. For more information, please visit www.cfsem.org.
This grant was inadvertently included in a general press release about grants. It should have been identified as a grant from the Chelsea Community Foundation, which is an affiliate of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. We will have another release about this grant and an additional one as well shortly.