News & Views Centering student voices: What we learned partnering with Listen4Good July 17, 2025 As a program officer, I’m always asking my team: how can we ensure our investments truly reflect the needs, requests and voices of the communities we aim to support? As the former executive director of a nonprofit focused on higher education access and success, I saw firsthand that while we…
News & Views Rapson: Kresge Trustee Robert Storey was strong champion of HBCUs and Detroit July 17, 2025 Robert “Bob” Storey, whose distinguished legal career as a partner at several law firms also included serving as a trustee at The Kresge Foundation, died June 11, 2025, at age 89. Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson issued the following statement. It is with deep sadness that I share news…
Resource Realizing Resilience: Toward a fairer, greener future July 15, 2025 Ten years ago, The Kresge Foundation partnered with Island Press to answer a critical question: How do we make communities more resilient to climate change and other major disruptions? The result was the 2015 publication, “Bounce Forward: Urban Resilience in the Era of Climate Change,” which defined resilience as our…
Person Katie Van Dusen Katie Van Dusen (she/they) is a program officer with the American Cities Program at The Kresge Foundation. Katie supports partners and stewards grants that align with the practice’s focus on expanding opportunity by promoting effective and inclusive community development practices in American cities. They joined the foundation in 2025. In…
News & Views Grasping at the Roots: How RYSE Center cultivates youth power and community transformation July 9, 2025
News & Views Strengthening healthy, connected neighborhoods through child- and family-centered parks and public spaces July 8, 2025
Person Kelly Bailiff Kelly Bailiff (she/her) is the executive assistant to the VP, CFO, Chief Administrative Officer, and to the General Counsel at The Kresge Foundation. She joined the foundation in 2025. Previously, she served as a consultant at Accenture where her work spanned various aspects of project management, including change management, training…
News & Views Transformative Climate Action project from Urban Institute helps local leaders disrupt climate status quo June 26, 2025 Climate change threatens the health and well-being of all Americans. To build climate resilience, cities are reshaping their economies and infrastructure to transition to renewable energy and withstand climate harms, but the benefits of these changes are not shared equally. Under the status quo, the most under-resourced communities and neighborhoods…
News & Views 25 artists named 2025 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award winners June 26, 2025 Kresge Arts in Detroit today announced the 2025 Kresge Artist Fellowships and Gilda Snowden Emerging Artist Awards recipients. Twenty-five artists received the no-strings-attached prize from the program, administered by the College for Creative Studies (CCS) on behalf of The Kresge Foundation. For the first time, each Kresge Artist Fellow will…