About Us

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

• Who it serves
• How it serves
• What it accomplishes

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 committment is why CAYF has an incomparable retention rate of 85-90 percent and why CAYF scholars graduate at a rate much higher than all the universities they attend.

CAYF is a living legacy of the late Mayor's lifetime of work. 

Since 1986, the Foundation has awarded more than four million dollars to more than four hundred students.

All CAYF scholars are expected to help the Foundation in whatever way they can and to carry its good will into the community by helping others.

The Foundation also runs the REAL Skills Program (RSP), formerly Post Secondary Readiness Planning Program (PSRP) which prepares students for high school by teaching life skills that make academic concentration and success more likely.

Our Mission

Our mission is to develop leadership among Detroit's youth through college scholarships, mentoring and other supports for personal growth and development.

Our Staff

Board Members

officers

• Coleman A. Young
  President Emeritus
  
• Larry P. Doss
  President Emeritus
• Marvin Beatty
  President
  Greektown Casino

• Garry C. Carley
  Vice President
  The Heathers Club
• Fred Martin
  Secretary
• Juliette Okotie-Eboh, Ph.D.
  Assistant Secretary
  MGM Grand Casino

• William D. Sanders
  Treasurer
  Citizens Bank
• Lewis & Munday
  General Counsel
  

trustees

• George Aubrey
  Park Rite
  
• Patti L. Bell
• Robert Berg
  Berg Muirhead & Associates
• Michael G. Bickers
  National City Bank
• Tiffany Curry
  YRC Regional Transportation
  
• George A. Goff
  Detroit Public Schools/CAYF Alumnus
  

• Elliott Hall
  Dykema Gossett
• Sue Hamilton-Smith
  Department of Children and Family Services
• W. Rollin Henderson
  Henderson Financial Associates, Inc.
• John A. James
  James Group International
• Louis E. James
  MCL JASCO
  
• Deanna L. Naugles-Jack
  Accenture Corporation/CAYF Alumna

• Kenneth Shapiro
• Shirley Stancato
  New Detroit
• Jermaine A. Wyrick
  Jermaine Wyrick PC/CAYF Alumnus
• Carlito H. Young
  Johnson, Rosati, LaBarge, Aseltyne & Field, P.C.
  
• Kebina Young