 The
GreenWays Initiative, a five-year program of the Community Foundation
for Southeast Michigan launched in 2001, is a comprehensive
effort aimed at expanding and enhancing our region’s natural
landscape. The GreenWays Initiative is about linkage, leverage
and collaboration: linking communities…leveraging vision,
resources and people…and collaborating to promote and protect
the health and well-being of the community for the present and
the future.
Through
$25 million in foundation and private contributions, the GreenWays
Initiative assisted communities and organizations develop
and implement greenways plans and projects that leveraged
another $50 million of matching investments from government
and other sources. This landmark initiative channeled an unprecedented
$75 million to create and expand greenways in Wayne, Oakland,
Macomb, Monroe,Washtenaw, St. Clair and Livingston counties.
The
GreenWays Initiative has:
- physically
linked communities throughout the region through the construction
of greenways
- brought
communities together to collaborate on opportunities that
cross jurisdictional lines
- built
the capacity of the institutions, both public and private,
that are responsible for the development of greenways
- increased
public awareness, understanding and appreciation for the
benefits of greenways to their communities and their quality
of life.
The GreenWays Initiative provides southeast Michigan with an opportunity to enhance the region’s natural environment while simultaneously building and connecting its diverse communities.
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