Emil and Julie Michael created a gift fund to provide books and other resources for the K-12 libraries at The School at Marygrove. Located on the former campus of Marygrove College in Detroit, The School at Marygrove is a public elementary and secondary school that is part of the Marygrove Learning Community.
The learning community is the result of a private-public partnership between the Marsal Family School of Education, the Detroit Public Schools Community District, and the Kresge Foundation that provides education and family services that support the success of Detroit children from prenatal through college and career.
The School at Marygrove includes three beautiful library spaces across its two buildings: two newly renovated spaces in the elementary school and a refinished space in the middle and high school building that maintains the original architecture and built-in shelving of the previous college library. The learning community staff lacked the robust book budget required to build a K-12 school library collection from scratch. The private-public partnership proved crucial, providing an invitation for donors like the Michaels to help close the gap.
