CEDAM Blog

Introducing: The CSA Innovative Grant Project

Commitment to Community Service: Red Hawk NEST EGG CSA Program Achieves 100% Participation Rate for 2022-23 School Year

Legislative Leaders Introduce Rate Cap Bill Targeting Triple-digit Interest Loans in Michigan

Meet CEDAM’s newest team members supporting our AmeriCorps program

Engaging Students Early: LEAF Plans Creative Youth CSA Programming 

Impact Through Trust: KickStart to Career Muskegon County Launches Ambassadorship Program with Innovative Project Grant Support

CEDAM Staff, Members appointed to workgroups on Governor’s Growing Michigan Together Council

Communities Coming Together: Lansing SAVE Launches Capital Campaign

SEEDing for College Partners with Nonprofits to Drive Wayne Metro Children’s Savings Account Program

Michigan State Legislature passes $81.7 billion FY 2023-24 Budget

CEDAM to pilot “Summer Fridays”

CEDAM Announces $200k in Children’s Savings Account Innovative Project Grants, Partners with University of Michigan to Track Impact

$100,000 Consumers Energy Foundation Grant supports CEDAM’s Economic Inclusion Work

Kicking Off 2023: NFL Player Shows Support for M&M Area Community Foundation’s Future Fund

LEAF Student Art Exhibit Asks the Right Questions

Fellow Feature: First annual Cultivating Community series celebrates Coldwater’s diversity

Battle Creek Community Foundation Soft-Launches Area’s First Children’s Savings Account Program

Manistee’s Commitment to Housing: Former Fellow Lissette Reyes Discusses Their Journey

What Economic Security Should Mean in an American Context

Fellow Feature: Michelle McGregor talks CEDAM Bootcamp, Bridgeport pride, and more.

Meet our new economic inclusion program coordinator, Magdalena S. Rivera

Meet CEDAM’s new executive assistant, Rebekah Cathey

Meet our new AmeriCorps & fellowship program coordinator, Shate’ja Curry

Get to Know the Building Michigan Together Plan: The Housing and Community Development Fund

10 Things to Know about Serving with CEDAM’s AmeriCorps

Big News! CEDAM’s Policy Priorities Receive Massive Funding from the State

Expand your reach by becoming a CEDAM AmeriCorps host site

EITC Awareness Day: Renewed bipartisan support for State expansion

CEDAM receives $100,000 grant from the Consumers Energy Foundation

Meet Shaniqua Gibson, CEDAM’s program coordinator

Getting to know CEDAM’s AmeriCorps program manager, Andrea Villanueva

Michigan legislature includes $2M for Children’s Savings Accounts in 2021-22 budget

CEDAM members are uniquely positioned to support the Governor’s MI New Economy Plan

CEDAM Awards 2021 Gene Kuthy Award to Robert Donohue Jr. of the Michigan Downtown Association

CEDAM Awards 2021 Leader of the Year Award to Chanell Scott Contreras of ProsperUs

CEDAM AmeriCorps host site Community Housing Network collaborates to combat homelessness

How Gov. Whitmer’s $100 million MHCDF funding proposal could expand affordable housing and shape Michigan’s economy

Saint Johns fellow a key player in moving zoning, rebrand, other initiatives forward

Using Children’s Savings Accounts for Economic Inclusion: A Q&A with Bonnie Gettys, Rep. Julie Calley and Jessica AcMoody

Driving recovery and inclusion: A Q&A with Joan Nelson, Kristi James and Jessica AcMoody about community economic development

Children’s Savings Accounts 101: What they are and why they’re important

CEDAM to spotlight the impact of Children’s Savings Accounts on generational wealth

Why community economic development can be used as a tool to promote equity

Staff Feature: From intern to program coordinator, Bevertone Anyonga talks about his journey to a career in community development