Michael Freeman

Michael Freeman was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2011. Michael Freeman is currently the Associate Director of Programmatic Underwriting for the City of Detroit's Housing and Revitalization Department. In this capacity, he directs and oversees the Community Development Block Grant program for the City of Detroit. Michael, a graduate of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, began his career as a community organizer with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)/AmeriCorps program in 1994, where he worked to facilitate dialogue/consensus among community stakeholders, neighborhood planning, and community advocacy in Flint, Michigan. He later consulted directly with LISC in Michigan, administering HUD-supported technical assistance and training programs for community housing development organizations across the state.

In 2000, Michael became the Coordinator for Training and Technical Assistance at the Michigan Community Service Commission where he provided assistance to Michigan's national service programs. Technical assistance included strategic planning, financial/grant management, facilitative leadership, fund development, program reporting, media planning, logic model, and other organizational development trainings. He went on to become the Program Officer for Michigan's AmeriCorps Statewide program, responsible for a portfolio of 26 programs, 1,000 AmeriCorps members and $7 million of federal funding each year.