The State of Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (MI-LEO), the Michigan Municipal League (MML), and Marquette-based technology company Syncurrent are partnering to support a centralized AI-powered state grant system, designed to make funding more transparent and accessible.
Through the MI Funding Hub and its new integration with Syncurrent’s AI infrastructure, local and tribal governments across the state can track and apply for state and federal grants to help improve infrastructure, enhance affordable housing, or make investments to help a community thrive, beyond its operational budget.
“Local and tribal governments often require outside funding for critical services like water, transportation, and parks,” says Dhruv C. Patel, co-founder and CEO of Syncurrent. “We celebrate MI-LEO and MML for recognizing the challenges local and tribal governments face when accessing this type of funding. Through partnerships like this, Syncurrent can continue building solutions for tribal and local communities and states across the nation.”
Syncurrent’s AI-powered platform combines multiple federal and state databases into one environment, offers local and tribal governments a space for collaboration among users, and matches them to relevant, eligible funding.
“Michigan is one of only a few states to offer a centralized, public-facing grant hub to local and tribal governments, but having the most up to date and relevant grant information has been a challenge,” says Shanna Draheim, director of policy research labs at MML. “To maximize impact, our MI Funding Hub needed Syncurrent’s government-wide framework as it simplifies the grant identification process from months to minutes.”
Jonathan Smith, senior chief deputy director for labor and economic opportunity at MI-LEO, says, “Navigating public funding shouldn’t require a full-time grant writer. This collaboration brings the best of public service and Michigan-grown innovation together to help local leaders focus less on navigating bureaucracy and more on building stronger, more resilient places.”
For more information on the MI Funding Hub, visit mifundinghub.org/.
Since 2024, more than 100 small governments across the country have been using Syncurrent’s platform to pull directly from first-source grant data across federal and state agency websites and databases.
For more information about Syncurrent, visit syncurrent.com.
