Michigan Member Federations

Community Shares of Michigan

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Community Shares of Michigan
	3185 Grayson Ferndale, MI 48220 Charles Dietrick Rooney, Ph.D., President Phone: 248-586-9753 Fax: 248-586-9753	Community Shares of Michigan members focus on issues of justice and peace, defense of human rights, and social change, promoting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Issues: Funding, Social Justice
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Organizations belonging to Community Shares of Michigan:
ACLU Fund of Michigan
	60 W. Hancock Detroit, MI 48201 Becky Bull, Development Director Phone: 313-578-6815 Fax: 313-578-6811 E-mail: aclu@aclumich.org	The ACLU defends the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, which includes racial justice, privacy, free speech, separation of church and state and reproductive freedom. Website: www.aclumich.org

Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan
	470 Church Road Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 Felix Rogers, President Phone: 313-563-4014	The Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan's mission is to provide non-partisan, educational research, public policy development and analysis of various issues of social and economic importance to Michigan's Communities of color. Website: www.bcfmichigan.org

Cranbrook Peace Foundation
	Sr. Jane Remson, O. Carm. jfremson@loyno.edu Loyola University Box 907 New Orleans LA 70118 Phone: 504-861-5834 Fax: 504-861-5833	Cranbrook Peace Foundation supports peace education and nonviolent conflict resolution. It has provided seed money for more than 80 projects addressing racism, death penalty and human rights.

Freedom House Inc.
	2630 W. Lafayette Detroit, MI 48216 Gloria Rivera, Executive Director Phone: 313-964-4320 Fax: 313-963-1077 E-mail: Fhshelter@aol.com	Freedom House has served indigent, ethnic homeless since 1983. We provide shelter, social, educational, medical, legal and transitional housing services for individuals and families applying for asylum in the U.S. or Canada.

Friends School in Detroit
	1100 St. Aubin Street Detroit, MI 48207 Joan Bodnar, Director of Finance Phone: 313-259-6722 Fax: 313-259-8066	Friends School of Detroit provides value-based education emphasizing non-violence in an urban setting where 40% of the students receive financial assistance.

Groundwork for a Just World
	5221 Gullen Mall, Suite 761 Detroit, MI 48202 Barbara Beesley Phone: 313-577-0251 Fax: 313-577-0282	Groundwork for a Just World educates and mobilizes action for economic justice, peace/human rights, racial justice and women's justice through collaborative activity, workshops, conferences, publications, campus outreach, AV library.

Heidelberg Project
	P.O. box 19422 Detroit, MI 48219 Jenenne Whitfield Phone: 313-537-8037 Fax: 313-537-8037	Heidelberg Project is a community arts organization. We use art in novel ways to halt the decline of an east-side community, offering new hope to children and residents.

Matrix Theatre Company
	1542 Hubbard Street Detroit, MI 48209 Dr. Shaun Nethercott, Executive Director Phone: 313-967-0999	Matrix Theatre Company helps the unseen and unnoticed to create new plays about their lives, histories and concerns, involving more than 1800 children, youth and adults each year.

Michigan Coalition for Human Rights
	1641 Webb Street Detroit, MI 48206 Charles Dietrick Rooney, Ph.D. Phone: 313-869-8835 Fax: 313-869-8266	MCHR is an interfaith, multi-racial coalition of religious, civic, business, labor and humanitarian groups. We focus on human rights, particularly racial and economic justice.

NLG/Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice
	NLG/Sugar Law Center 733 St. Antoine, 3rd Floor Detroit, MI 48226 Julie H. Hurwitz, Executive Director Phone: 313-962-6540 Fax: 313-962-4492 E-mail: jhurwitz@sugarlaw.org	The GLC provides legal advocacy, education, support and representation to disadvantaged individuals and groups seeking justice by pursuing living wages, plant closing rights and environmental protection. Website: www.sugarlaw.org

Peace Action Education
	1367 Albany Ferndale, MI 48220 Frank O'Donnell and Helen Weber	Peace Action works to educate the public about the benefits to education, health care, jobs and other human/environmental needs that would result from reduced military spending.

Sojourner Foundation
	25940 Grand River Ave. Detroit, MI 48240 Onnie Jacque, President Phone: 313-534-4263 Fax: 313-224-2609	Sojourner Foundation assists women and families through emergency shelter, parenting and child-care programs, decreasing teen pregnancy, education, advocacy and work opportunities for economic self-sufficiency.

Triangle Foundation
	19641 West Seven Mile Road Detroit, MI 48219 Kevin McAlpine, Development Director Phone: 313-537-3323 Fax: 313-537-3379 Email: Kevin@tri.org	Triangle Foundation is Michigan's leading organization serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied communities. Website: www.tri.org