The band Fun plans to raise $250,000 to help Metro Detroit's at-risk LGBT youth.

DETROIT, MI -- The pop-rock trio Fun, with singers Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost, has reportedly made a huge commitment to the Detroit area's at-risk LGBT youth.

The Associated Press reports the band revealed Friday plans to raise $250,000 to build a community health center for the Ruth Ellis Center.

The center, located at 77 Victor St. in Highland Park, provides housing, meals, clothing and medical services for LGBT youth in need.

Leaders of the center have told MLive there are 4,000 homeless gay, lesbian, transgendered or questioning youth who seek services from the agency annually.

And there are an estimated 800 homeless LBT youth in the the city of Detroit.

The $250,000 for Fun's cause will be raised, according to the AP, through a gay support organization called the The Ally Coalition.



The Ruth Ellis Center received a $15,000 donation from comedian Wanda Sykes last year during a fundraiser at Detroit's Museum of Contemporary Art.

The AP reports Dost grew up in Metro Detroit.

Ruess is no stranger to the area either. He recorded a song called "Headlights" with Eminem that's featured on Slim Shady's newest album, "The Marshall Mathers LP 2."

Fun had two successful song in 2012 with "We Are Young" and "Some Nights." The band has also won Grammys for "Song of the Year and "Best New Artist."

You can listen to "Headlights" in the YouTube player below: