Housing
The Community Foundation has a track record of working alongside various community partners to find solutions to our area’s housing crisis. Since 2017, the Community Foundation has been a core partner of the Little Traverse Bay Housing Partnership, working to bring awareness to the crisis. Throughout our organization’s history, we have supported affordable housing through grants both for building homes as well as for organizations working in the housing space. Recently our investments have focused on predevelopment costs for new housing, as well as ensuring one new middle-income apartment building comes to fruition in Petoskey.
Child Care
Child care is an essential part of our community’s fabric. Early care and education services, such as child care, are a necessary support for any community and any economy to thrive. Throughout the country, communities have struggled to support a system of accessible, high-quality, affordable early care and education services. To address the needs of Emmet County to have a sustainable child care system, North Central Michigan College has embarked on a multi-year effort to provide innovative solutions to our area’s child care shortage. We are pleased to support the NCMC Child Care Initiative which will provide an evidence-based plan for a sustainable child care system designed to meet the county’s needs now and into the future.