TROY, Mich. – Beginning today, visitors to kresge.org will notice a blue tag on pages throughout the site inviting them to provide feedback.

Clicking on one of tags takes visitors to a survey about Kresge’s website. The survey is part of a multi-pronged effort to ensure the website is as easy to navigate and as useful as possible.

DETROIT – Like many older, industrial American cities, Newark, N.J., is trying to redefine itself. Its schools have struggled for years and are run by a state-appointed superintendent. Decades of disinvestment have taken a toll on neighborhoods and a contentious political environment added to the challenges.

TROY, Mich. – The Kresge Foundation isn't the same organization it was five years ago. And now the 87-year-old foundation has a new website that fully reflects its evolved priorities. Kresge has shifted from helping to build the nation's nonprofit infrastructure – hospitals, libraries, academic buildings – to helping nonprofit organizations address some of society’s most pressing problems.

TROY, Mich. – The Kresge Foundation is pleased to award 12 2011 Kresge Artist Fellowships in the visual arts. Each fellowship includes an unrestricted prize of $25,000 and customized professional practice opportunities. The 2011 class of fellows consists of 11 individual artists and one artist collaborative.

TROY, Mich. – In two recent speeches – to the Memphis Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence and the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits – Kresge Foundation President Rip Rapson suggests six ways private philanthropies might join forces to "preserve a civic architecture of compassion for those less fortunate" given the nation's new era of government retrenchment.

Rapson divided his remarks into three sections:

"Music was all around me. I heard music and grew up in it. I was designed to be a musician. I can see no other way." With these words, master jazz trumpeter Marcus Belgrave reflects on how his lifelong immersion in and dedication to music has orchestrated each and every measure of his 73 years. Music, he says, instilled good values during his youth, opened doors of opportunity during his adult years, and shaped the legacy he leaves to the music world and the city of Detroit.

Rip Rapson, president of The Kresge Foundation, framed the closing plenary, "Strengthening Communities Together," at the Independent Sector and Council of Michigan Foundation's 2009 annual conference, with a discussion of where the city of Detroit is headed and what it may be able to teach other post-industrial cities seeking renewal.

Read Rip Rapson's full remarks, "A Different View of Detroit."

TROY, Mich. – At its third-quarter board meeting in September 2008, the trustees of The Kresge Foundation awarded 96 grants to organizations in 25 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and South Africa.

Here is a complete list of grants approved in the third quarter 2008:

(The list includes current and future planned grants.)