📚 What we’re reading: Dan Austin’s exceptional piece on Ruth Ellis, LGBTQ+ heroine, Detroiter, and namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a McGregor Fund grant partner. 🌈 The Ruth Ellis Center is a community of welcome, joy and refuge for LGBTQ+ youth in the Detroit area, supporting their social, emotional, medical and behavioral needs; offering hot meals, a food pantry, skill building workshops, job placement and benefits support; and providing LGBTQ+ affirmative, community-based housing and permanent supportive housing through its Clairmount Center. (fb)

👏👏 Congratulations to McGregor Fund Trustee Kelly Major Green! From the Michigan Chronicle: "Kelly Major Green Makes History as First Black Woman on Detroit Athletic Club Board, Rooted in Legacy, Leadership, and Love for the 313" "Black women in Detroit and beyond are watching, processing, and realizing that glass ceilings inside even the most exclusive institutions can and must be shattered—not for applause, but for access, for voice, for legacy." "Detroiters know the significance of “firsts,” but they also know the importance of what follows. Sustaining presence, creating policy, mentoring future leaders—those are the next steps. Green is already walking in that. She’s not waiting for a title to tell her what leadership looks like. She’s been doing the work. This board seat is just the recognition catching up." "Moments like this are never about one woman. They are about community evolution. They are about reimagining institutions and shifting narratives from exclusion to inclusion—brick by brick, seat by seat. Green’s story is not wrapped in exceptionalism—it’s grounded in what happens when excellence meets opportunity, when dedication meets access." "The board seat is symbolic. Her presence is seismic. And the culture she’s affirming by being exactly who she is—that’s the real win." https://michiganchronicle.com/kelly-major-green-makes-history-as-first-black-woman-on-detroit-athletic-club-board-rooted-in-legacy-leadership-and-love-for-the-313/ (fb)