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
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc. This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website Amount 675,000 Year 2025 Location New York, New York Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Wayne State University This grant provides two years of continued support for Bloomberg terminal subscriptions that equip students at the Mike Ilitch School of Business with the real-world tools to learn about investment fund management. Grant funds will enable WSU to expand the number of terminals from 12 to 24, enabling the SMIF program to keep up with the significant growth in student interest since the program was launched. View Website Amount 338,464 Year 2025 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area
UPROSE Inc. This grant will support UPROSE to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website Amount 675,000 Year 2025 Location Brooklyn, New York Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Results for America This project grant will support Results for America’s Information and Navigation track within the Local Infrastructure Hub technical assistance initiative. This initiative helps cities win and implement competitive federal infrastructure grants that deliver local projects conceived with equity and climate goals in mind. View Website Amount 400,000 Year 2025 Location Washington, D.C. Program American Cities Focus Area
Race Forward This grant provides continued general operating support for Race Forward, which works to build a multiracial democracy and a racially equitable society through interlocking strategies of narrative, power building, and institutional practice. The organization works nationally while grounding each of its initiatives in particular communities. View Website Amount 1,425,000 Year 2025 Location New York, New York Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health, Human Services Focus Area Field Building
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles This grant will support Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA), as lead partner of the LEAP-LA coalition, to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. These efforts will help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. PSR-LA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Los Angeles, California Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Partners for a Healthier Community This grant will support the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts (PHIWM), which convenes the Live Well Springfield coalition to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. View Website Amount 675,000 Year 2025 Location Springfield, Massachusetts Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
National Association of Community Health Centers Inc. This grant will support National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) experts to provide technical coaching and regional/topic area peer learning cohorts in a variety of subject matters including but not limited to emergency management, environmental health, data systems, policy advocacy, clinic resilience hubs, and heat-health monitoring. View Website Amount 675,000 Year 2025 Location Bethesda, Md. Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Marygrove Conservancy This grant supports Marygrove Conservancy to engage an architect team to complete a campus framework plan. The campus framework plan will provide a foundational scope for future campus development that will inform the parameters for the design of Kresge's new HQ building and associated public spaces. View Website Amount 197,000 Year 2025 Location Detroit, Mich. Program Detroit Focus Area
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability This grant will support Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. LCJA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Fresno, California Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA This grant will support ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability USA in implementing the Communities Leading on Climate Mobility Initiative, a national, multi-sector effort to address climate-driven migration. This initiative aims to build a climate mobility ecosystem by developing local infrastructure and policies that foster resilient, inclusive communities equipped to support those displaced by climate impacts. View Website Amount 150,000 Year 2025 Location Boston, Massachusetts Program American Cities, Detroit, Environment Focus Area Field Building
Health and Environmental Funders Network This grant will enable the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) to encourage greater philanthropic investment at the intersection of climate change, environmental health, and equity. Virginia Organizing, Inc. provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website Amount 375,000 Year 2025 Location Bethesda, Maryland Program Environment, Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Greater Bergen Community Action This renewal grant will provide partial funding for the second year of operations of CAP Solar, which, in partnership with the national association for Community Action Agencies, will offer America’s 1,000 community action agencies, and their partners, pathways to assessing, developing, and financing energy efficiency, clean energy, and resiliency projects. View Website Amount 75,000 Year 2025 Location Program Environment Focus Area Field Building
Essential Hospitals Institute This grant will support the Essential Hospitals Institute (EHI) mobilize health care and public health professionals, and advance policy, practice and program implementation by supporting place-based community-driven solutions that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. View Website Amount 675,000 Year 2025 Location Washington, D.C. Program American Cities, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Environmental Health Coalition This grant will support the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. EHC is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location National City, Calif. Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Environmental Grantmakers Association This grant will renew Kresge’s membership in the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA); fund EGA’s bi-annual gatherings for environmental funders who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color; and support an Executive Grantmaker Fellowship to provide trainings and deepen networks among foundation Presidents and Trustees. View Website Amount 196,000 Year 2025 Location New York, New York Program Environment Focus Area Field Building
Environmental Community Action Inc. (ECO-Action) This renewal grant supports Environmental Community Action, Inc. (ECO-Action) in implementing a green stormwater infrastructure strategy in partnership with community and technical partners for the Atlanta University Center, a consortium of four Historically Black Colleges and Universities. View Website Amount 100,000 Year 2025 Location Atlanta, GA Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems
Eastside Community Network This grant will support ECN to advance affordable and resilient energy solutions; deepen partnerships with healthcare institutions to better link environmental conditions with health outcomes; invest in resident leadership development; and work to influence city policy to address the climate and health challenges facing Detroit’s east side. View Website Amount 675,000 Year 2025 Location Detroit, Michigan Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Define American This operating grant supports Define American's mission and its work with artists, storytellers and culture bearers to promote authentic and nuanced storytelling about immigrant experiences through leveraging research, evidence-based resources and mutual support networks to strengthen cultural expressions that combat the polarization of immigrant stories across mediums and industries. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2025 Location Louisville, Kentucky Program Arts & Culture Focus Area