Marcus L. McGrew
As director of Grants Management, Marcus McGrew is responsible for developing and streamlining The Kresge Foundation’s processes and procedures to achieve optimal grantmaking operations. This includes managing data integrity to foster informed decision-making, measuring and reporting payout progress against grant budgets, ensuring legal compliance, and implementing Kresge’s new grantmaking process.
“Our department helped design the new delegated authority process,” Marcus says. “Previously, the board approved grants four times a year. The new process allows the foundation to award grants each month so we can be more responsive to the populations we empower and serve. We hope it becomes a model in philanthropy for responsive, responsible grantmaking.”
Prior to joining the foundation in 2009, Marcus served as the Wayne County Community College District associate vice chancellor for administration and finance. In that role, he was in charge of payroll for the metropolitan Detroit college’s 1,800 employees and financial aid for 70,000 students.
Marcus holds a bachelor's of business administration degree in finance from the University of South Alabama and a master of business administration in integrative management from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. He serves on the boards of directors of the Grants Managers Network and the Detroit Service Learning Academy, the first recipient of the Michigan Department of Education’s School of Excellence title.