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DIA Kids: Building a Lifetime of Curiosity

Detroit, MI (October 2026)-When children visit museums at a young age, it sparks curiosity and learning that will last a lifetime. It also reinforces an important part of our mission: museums are spaces for all. That’s the idea behind the Walters Family DIA Kids Program, which brings nearly 400 preschoolers, caregivers, and teachers to the Detroit Institute of Arts each year. The initiative began as a pilot program in 2019 and, thanks to generous support from Pete and Carol Walters and the Walters Family Foundation, is now funded in perpetuity.

Each year, the program brings students from underserved Metro Det

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‘Detroit to Gloryland’ Takes Local Students Back to Yosemite

Discretionary Grant - Detroit, MI (September 2025) — "Detroit Outdoors has taken a group of students and teachers to Yosemite National Park for the second time. The Detroit to Gloryland journey is designed to introduce youth to outdoor activities like camping and rock climbing and pick up on some history.

The group travels to Yosemite in late July so they are in there during National Buffalo Soldier Day, and within reach of the pa

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Downtown Boxing Gym’s Green Building

Detroit, MI (April 20, 2021)—We only have one planet. And Downtown Boxing Gym (DBG) is proud to do our part to help sustain it. Over the last five years, we have worked hard to transform our 1941 building.

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Reconnected At Last: Huron Pines Restores ‘Pivotal’ Shingle Mill Site on E. Branch Black River

Grayling, MI (July 2020)—A pipe culvert that obstructed the East Branch Black River for decades is gone and with it the persistent problems it caused with erosion, flooding and fish passage. In its place, a shiny aluminum arch ushers wild brook trout to 20 miles of habitat upstream of County Road 622 — vital spawning and nursery grounds supporting the river’s famed fishery. Huron Pines is proud to have led this effort, more than two decades in the making, to restore the Shingle Mill crossing.

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Walters Family Foundation Welcomes New Director

Milford, MI (March 2020)—The Walters Family Foundation is delighted to welcome Libby Levy as the organization’s new Director. Levy joined the foundation in June 2019 bringing more than 18 years of experience in community development, philanthropy and urban planning. She has held positions at organizations including ProSeeds, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and Jefferson East Business Association, as well as an urban planning lecturer at University of Michigan.

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New Head Start Program at the DIA

Detroit, MI (December 2019)—For the first time, the DIA is piloting a Head Start program in partnership with the Walters Family Foundation. Nearly 150 four-year-old Macomb, Oakland and Wayne county children and their caregivers will attend a series of three programs at the museum this school year to explore art with DIA gallery teachers and learn to make a project of their own in the art-making studio.Afterward, they’ll be supplied with all the material to complete a project together at home.

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