The Coleman A. Young Foundation offers a Scholars Program that is unique in:

Detroit students who receive CAYF scholarships are  typically good students who  have overcome significant  hardship. These students likely  would be unable to go to college  without the CAYF program.

Staff and volunteers at CAYF  are actively committed to the  academic and personal well- being of each of its scholars.

This commitment is why CAYF has an incomparable retention  rate of more than 90 percent and  why CAYF scholars graduate at a rate much higher than all  the universities they attend.

CAYF

Coleman A. Young Foundation

Coleman A. Young was the Mayor of Detroit for two decades. He established the Foundation in 1982. The Mayor left office in 1993. He died four years later.














CAYF is a living legacy of the late Mayor's lifetime of work. All the assets he earned were left to the Foundation to provide opportunities for future generations in the city that was his life.