As Detroit Struggles, Foundations Shift Mission

DETROIT, March 22, 2009, The New York Times — Two years ago, a charity called Women Arise went to the Hudson-Webber Foundation with a plea for help.

Hudson-Webber, a fixture in Detroit philanthropy, was a longtime supporter of the organization’s programs to help women rejoin society after being imprisoned. The foundation, however, did not typically get involved in the kind of messy personnel and financial problems that threatened Women Arise.