Movement Strategy Center This project grant will support the Movement Strategy Center in partnering with the Arts & Culture Program to develop and administer Culture of Justice 2.0, a three-year initiative focused on cultural and community resilience. View Website Amount 6000000 Year 2025 Location Oakland, California Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits This grant will support the Minnesota Budget Project’s state policy efforts to advance a more equitable and sustainable tax system, their ability to provide rapid response to nonprofits in their state and nationally to other states, and their engagement in the Human Services Cash Innovate and Activate community of practice as a state policy lead. View Website Amount 200000 Year 2025 Location St. Paul, MN Program Human Services Focus Area
CollegeSpring This grant will enable College Spring to expand its in-school college preparation program to six to eight urban under-resourced Texas districts over three years, reaching 12,000 low-income students. View Website Amount 350000 Year 2025 Location San Francisco, California Program Education Focus Area
National Housing Institute/Shelterforce This cross-team renewal grant, between Arts and Culture and Health, will support Shelterforce as they continue in-depth, independent journalism highlighting health equity, creative placemaking, and community development approaches that interrupt systemic inequities in healthcare, education, housing instability, and economic opportunities throughout the country. View Website Amount 390000 Year 2025 Location Montclair, N.J. Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Veterans Education Success Inc. This grant supports Veterans Education Success (VES), a nonpartisan organization that champions the rights of student veterans, will elevate veterans’ voices while advancing postsecondary access, quality, and accountability through media training, nonpartisan advocacy convenings with policymakers, and expansion of a free legal aid clinic for student veterans. View Website Amount 275000 Year 2025 Location Washington, D.C. Program Education Focus Area
US Water Alliance This grant will support the 2026 CREWS Grant Partner Convening which will be held in New Orleans, LA, in March 2026. The grant will fund strategic facilitation, event-planning, and logistics support by the US Water Alliance (Alliance) and Catalyst Collaboratives LLC, as well as lodging, meals, transportation, site visits, honorariums, and vendors. This grant also funds a grantee networking event at the Alliance’s 2025 One Water Summit. View Website Amount 303500 Year 2025 Location Washington, D.C. Program Environment Focus Area
University of Pennsylvania This project support grant is a co-investment by the Detroit and the American Cities Programs in The Center for Public Service and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania (CPSP), led by former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. View Website Amount 400000 Year 2025 Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Program American Cities, Detroit Focus Area
UNITE-LA Inc. This grant will provide general operating support to UNITE-LA, which focuses on postsecondary access and attainment in the nation’s second largest city, including college advising, dual enrollment, degree and credential completion, and workforce alignment. View Website Amount 300000 Year 2025 Location Los Angeles, California Program Education Focus Area Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success
Tulane University This cross-team grant with the American Cities Program will support the Cowen Institute to strengthen the New Orleans College and Career Attainment Network (NOLA CCAN). NOLA CCAN is a city-wide coordinated effort focused on increasing college access and success for low-income, first-generation, and students of color. The grant supports key staff positions, expands FAFSA completion efforts, enhances counselor training, and strengthens data use across 70+ high schools and organizations. View Website Amount 400000 Year 2025 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program American Cities, Education Focus Area
The Aspen Institute Inc. This project support grant to the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI) will increase funding for its role as backbone for the Community Foundation Business Model Project, which engages leaders of those institutions to re-envision how they operate (e.g., increasing donor alignment, restructuring fees) to better meet community needs. View Website Amount 200000 Year 2025 Location Washington, D.C. Program American Cities Focus Area
RYSE This cross-team grant from the Health and Arts & Culture programs will enable the RYSE Center to build its capacity as a national field building leader in creative, culturally affirming and community-centered healing strategies that support the collective, multi-modal learning and dissemination activities of Kresge-funded community safety and health partners in Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis and Fresno. View Website Amount 650000 Year 2025 Location Richmond, CA Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
RE-volv This grant will support RE-volv, a solar + storage developer and current Kresge PRI loan and guarantee recipient, in its efforts to engage with community action agencies and the National Community Action Partnership. View Website Amount 70000 Year 2025 Location San Franscisco Program Environment, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Field Building
Project on Predatory Student Lending Inc. This general operating support grant helps the Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL) strengthen pathways to an affordable, quality college education by exposing and eliminating predatory behavior in higher education. View Website Amount 275000 Year 2025 Location Boston, MA Program Education Focus Area
Partnership for Southern Equity This grant will support Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions in Southwest Atlanta that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. View Website Amount 675000 Year 2025 Location Atlanta, Georgia Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
National Public Housing Museum This operating grant supports the National Public Housing Museum to continue programs that integrate creativity, housing justice, and economic empowerment such as cooperative entrepreneurship, workforce training, oral histories of public housing residents, and storytelling as tools for achieving social and civic outcomes, as well as support for artists, activists, and cultural workers in addressing inequities in housing and related issues. View Website Amount $280,000 Year 2025 Location Chicago, Illinois Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
National College Advising Corps Inc. This cross-team grant with the American Cities Program supports the College Advising Corps’ (CAC) planning efforts to place near-peer college advisors in five Fresno high schools in fall 2026. View Website Amount 200000 Year 2025 Location Chapel Hill, North Carolina Program American Cities, Education Focus Area
Memphis Medical District Collaborative This cross-team grant from the Health and American Cities programs will enable the Memphis Medical District Collaborative to leverage the investment practices and capital of nine member institutions to expand economic opportunity, as a pathway towards a more equitable, safe and heathy District and city. View Website Amount 500000 Year 2025 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
MDRC This cross-team grant from the Education and American Cities Programs will support MDRC to partner with Tennessee Achieves (tnAchieves) and Southwest Tennessee Community College (SWTCC), the only community college in Memphis, to strengthen comprehensive student support systems. View Website Amount 600000 Year 2025 Location New York, New York Program American Cities, Education Focus Area
Juxtaposition Arts This grant renews operating support to Juxtaposition Arts, a youth-focused organization in North Minneapolis that works at the intersection of design, community development, and social enterprise and pairs young people with paid apprenticeships to foster their creative skills, community leadership, and professional readiness. View Website Amount 280000 Year 2025 Location Minneapolis, Minn. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Just Solutions Collective This grant provides continued support for the Just Solutions Collective, a national organization working to enable equitable and effective climate action at the state and local level. Community Initiatives provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website Amount 300000 Year 2025 Location Program Environment Focus Area Field Building