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Sarah McClelland, President of Chase in Michigan said, “We are addressing the learning needs of Detroit’s youth throughout the year and providing summer work that teaches solid job skills and helps students stay — and do better — in school,”

The JPMorgan Chase Foundation will provide the grants to be used for education, planning and new programs, as well as activities that support job training for youths from low to moderate-income families.

The grants are distributed as follows:

• $150,000 to The Greening of Detroit for its Green Corps youth employment program, employing up to 70 teens from low- and moderate-income families.

• $125,000 to Urban Neighborhoods Initiative for its business apprentice program in Southwest Detroit. The six-month job training program pays a stipend and provides 50 youth with job skills training, among other services.

• $50,000 to City Connect, which placed 30 Detroit youth in six-week, paid positions in the city’s North End and Southwest neighborhoods with nonprofit organizations.

• $100,000 to Teach for America to support bringing six college graduates to teach in Detroit Public Schools.

• $55,000 to Inside Out Literary Arts to provide in-school writing clinics for more than 400 students in grades 9 through 12 at Detroit International Academy in the North End.

• $50,000 to Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit to provide free entry-level performing arts training for up to 60 Detroit youth from low- and moderate-income families and intermediate-level instruction for up to 40 youth at Youthville in the city’s North End neighborhood.