In an effort to strengthen and expand access to our region’s safety net, United Way for Southeastern Michigan is hosting a highly competitive RFP process to fund eligible 501(c)3 nonprofits engaged in basic needs services. As part of this Safety Net Services grant opportunity, applicants will self-select into tiers of funding based on their interest and eligibility. The FY 2023-24 Basic Needs investment process is an open call for applications from both potential and existing funded partners of United Way who meet the criteria and funding priorities laid out in the application.
In an effort to support children in our community, United Way for Southeastern Michigan is opening a competitive RFP process to fund eligible 501(c)3 nonprofits engaged in educational wraparound services providing integrated student supports and expanded learning time opportunities, including social emotional learning, expanded learning time, academic supports, basic needs support for youth, and more. The 2023 Education investment process is an open call for applications from both potential and existing funded partners.
Don’t see a great fit? Check back soon to see new opportunities. You can also review old opportunities below to get a sense of other funding channels that may be available at times.
Connect 313 is a city-wide, data-driven digital inclusion strategy that brings countless organizations together with the bold goal to make Detroit a national model for digital inclusion and ensure all Detroiters can access the digital world and the opportunity it brings.
The mission of Connect 313 is to put in place by 2024 the means for all Detroiters to have access to appropriate devices, internet connections, technical support, and digital resources for improved learning, employment, and wellbeing.
To achieve its mission, Connect 313 focuses on supporting the broader Detroit digital equity ecosystem by engaging in policy advocacy efforts, facilitating community governance, and organizing to administer the Connect 313 Fund, and spearheading a robust data operation.
Connect 313 is a city-wide, data-driven digital inclusion strategy that brings countless organizations together with the bold goal to make Detroit a national model for digital inclusion and ensure all Detroiters can access the digital world and the opportunity it brings.
The mission of Connect 313 is to put in place by 2024 the means for all Detroiters to have access to appropriate devices, internet connections, technical support and digital resources for improved learning, employment and wellbeing.
To achieve its mission, Connect 313 focuses on supporting the broader Detroit digital equity ecosystem by engaging in policy advocacy efforts, facilitating community governance and organizing to administer the Connect 313 Fund, and spearheading a robust data operation.
We are determined to keep participant experience and agency at the forefront of our work, and neither Closing the Loop nor the future CIE will be successful without effective community engagement. Through Closing the Loop, we have created a User Experience & Engagement committee dedicated to reviewing the closed loop referral process to identify areas of improvement, as well as developing a community engagement plan to bring community voice into governance and decision making. We want to use patients’ and participants’ knowledge, skills and lived experiences to build an intuitive health and social services system, and that begins by hearing directly from community members.
United Way for Southeastern Michigan and its partners are working to develop infrastructure that enables organizations, agencies, and sectors to share information and coordinate care planning that creates better experiences for people accessing services. Our efforts to develop this infrastructure, referred to as a Community Information Exchange (CIE), center on the recognition that the health and social services sector lacks the capacity, resources, and technology required to work with clients and individuals across organizations and different programs. Even though each sector and agency may work well individually, they are part of a greater system that is disjointed and complex for both community members and for agencies, a system that lacks deep coordination and shared care planning, and that is better set up to react to current situations that plan for future care.
United Way for Southeastern Michigan opened a competitive RFP process to fund partners engaged in services that strengthen and expand access to our region’s safety net.
United Way for Southeastern Michigan opened a competitive RFP process to fund partners engaged in educational wraparound services that create thriving children by providing integrated student supports and expanded learning time opportunities.
Closing the Loop Together in Southeast Michigan is a project to improve food security by exchanging data across healthcare, local information and referral services and emergency food system partners to help people access the services they need and to let providers know when a person’s food needs have been met.
Connect 313 is a city-wide, data-driven digital inclusion strategy that brings countless organizations together with the bold goal to make Detroit a national model for digital inclusion and ensure all Detroiters can access the digital world and the opportunity it brings.
The United Way for Southeastern Michigan’s K-12 Education and Community Initiatives team is seeking an evaluator to design and execute an evaluation system for our Community Schools program.
United Way is seeking proposals from qualified individuals and organizations to provide virtual justice, diversity, equity and inclusion-related and/or community engagement training sessions to staff at United Way’s partner organizations.
The United Way for Southeastern Michigan is opening a competitive RFP process to fund partners already engaged in COVID-19 vaccine outreach and education among families with school-aged children to encourage vaccination uptake and support reaching the state’s target of a 70% vaccination rate.
The United Way for Southeastern Michigan is opening a competitive RFP process to fund partners already engaged in advocacy efforts impacting households living below the ALICE Threshold, reducing barriers to services and increasing equity or supporting voter access and engagement. The 2022 Advocacy Grant investment process is an open call for applications from both potential and existing funded partners.