The GreenWays Initiative, a five-year, $25 million program of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, 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. The fundamental goal of the GreenWays Initiative is to demonstrate the importance and benefits of building and increasing greenways throughout southeast Michigan.

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, founded in 1984, is a permanent community endowment built by gifts from hundreds of individuals and organizations committed to the future of southeast Michigan. The Foundation works to improve the quality of life in southeast Michigan by supporting a wide variety of activities benefiting education, arts and culture, health, human services, community development and civic affairs. The Foundation has assets of more than $525 million and, since its inception, has distributed more than $247 million through 26,285 grants to nonprofit organizations throughout Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Washtenaw, St. Clair and Livingston counties.

For press inquiries about The GreenWays Initiative, please contact:

Anne S. Weekley, Vice President, Communications
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
333 W. Fort St., Suite 2010
Detroit, MI 48226-3134
Tel.: (313) 961-6675