Thirteen Charities Receive Grants Totaling $382,500 From the Community Foundation's Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charitable Foundation Fund

DETROIT, Oct. 7, 2003 -- Thirteen area charities have been awarded grants totaling $382,500 from the Detroit Auto Dealers Association (DADA) Charitable Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan. The Charitable Fund supports southeast Michigan nonprofit organizations whose programs and activities assist children and young people. The Fund is held and administered by the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan. Since its first round of grants in 1999, the DADA Charitable Foundation Fund has awarded 42 grants totaling more than $1 million.

The 2003 grant recipients, which were selected on a competitive basis from a large pool of applicants, are:

* All the World's A Stage, Clinton Township, $22,500, for an arts education program for emotionally impaired children in Macomb county

* Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, $36,500, for a school-based immunization program for youth without health insurance in Hamtramck

* Cornerstone Schools Association, Detroit, $40,000, for an expansion of sixth-grade educational programs

* Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, $17,500, for expansion of youth educational programs

* Forgotten Harvest, Southfield, $33,500, for expansion of an emergency food program serving needy children in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties

* The Guidance Center, Southgate, $25,000, for the implementation of an early childhood program called "Let's Talk About It" in Taylor

* HAVEN Inc., Pontiac, $35,000, for an after-school and summer youth program

* Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, $25,000, for expansion of a grief counseling program for children, teens and their families in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties

* National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc., Ann Arbor, $29,500, for a diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention program for youth in Detroit

* Heinz C. Prechter Fund for Manic Depression, Southgate, $25,000, for a research program focused on the impact of manic depression on youth

* St. John Community Health Investment Corporation, $40,000, Warren, for expansion of school-based grief workshops for children and teens in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties

* Starr Commonwealth, Albion, $13,000, for expansion of a foster care program in Detroit

* YWCA of Western Wayne County, Inkster, $40,000, for expansion of an after-school drug and violence prevention program for youth in Inkster and Dearborn Heights

The DADA Charitable Fund is supported by proceeds from the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) Charity Preview. Since 1999, the Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charitable Foundation Fund has joined the 10 children's charities that benefit from the show as an additional way for proceeds from the Charity Preview to support programs and activities for children and young people. The DADA Charitable Fund, which is growing over time, distributes grants annually.

Since its first round of grants in 1999, the DADA Charitable Foundation Fund has awarded 42 grants totaling $1,087,500:

  In 1999, five grants totaling        $100,000
  In 2000, seven grants totaling       $150,000
  In 2001, nine grants totaling        $210,000
  In 2002, eight grants totaling       $245,000
  In 2003, thirteen grants totaling    $382,500

The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, founded in 1984, is a permanent community endowment built by gifts from hundreds of individuals and organizations committed to the future of southeast Michigan. The Foundation works to improve the region's quality of life by supporting a wide variety of activities benefiting education, arts and culture, health, human services, community development and civic affairs. The Foundation has assets of more than $345 million and, since its inception, has distributed $157 million through 18,562 grants to nonprofit organizations throughout Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Washtenaw, St. Clair and Livingston counties.