Grateful to see the work and insights of our partner, Meredith Kennedy of Miigwech, Inc. featured in this piece from the Council of Michigan Foundations!
Michigan’s Indigenous people are rooted in deep tradition, ceremony, and community, which can have a powerful impact on healing and health. In this installment of CMF Community Voices, Michigan Health Endowment Fund and Meredith Kennedy, a Waganakising Odawa tribal citizen, educator, birth worker and community leader, and executive director and founder of Miigwech, Inc., discuss how the Health Fund’s support is affecting Miigwech’s work and how the Health Fund — and other Michigan foundations — can evolve to build meaningful, authentic relationships with native communities. “If you want to center your philanthropy with Tribal communities, you need to partner with Tribal people,” Kennedy shared. Read More: https://lnkd.in/gj6U-hjA