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
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
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
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
Campaign for College Opportunity This general operating support grant will enable the Campaign for College Opportunity (Campaign) to protect its progress advancing access, student success, affordability, and racial equity in higher education, and to serve as a resource for policymakers and practitioners as they navigate unchartered territories that affect students. View Website Amount 450000 Year 2025 Location Los Angeles, California Program Education Focus Area
Bold Futures NM This cross-team operating grant supports Bold Futures' mission to build communities rooted in dignity, respect, and self-determination for women and people of color in New Mexico and expand its collaborations with artists and cultural workers to cultivate grassroots leadership, advance campaigns, and organize to improve maternal health, reform the criminal justice system, and advance youth development. View Website Amount 400000 Year 2025 Location Albuquerque, NM Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan This operational grant will support the coordination, capacity building, and data infrastructure necessary to strengthen Southeast Michigan’s small business ecosystem and expand access to sustainable, inclusive economic opportunity. View Website Amount 500000 Year 2025 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area
Louisiana Public Health Institute This grant will support the launch of a National Public Health Committee to co-create a unified policy agenda with cross-sector organizations working at the intersection of public health and community well-being. Additionally, they will actively participate in the BioDistrict New Orleans project by leveraging their expertise on building collaborative data approaches between public health stakeholders and economic development leaders to achieve positive health, wellness, and economic outcomes. View Website Amount 800000 Year 2025 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
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
The Collective (CLTV) The Collective will strengthen their Young Families Economic Success and Wealth Building Program, drawing lessons learned from their participation in the Memphis NextGen Initiative. With Foundation support the Collective will continue to build its policy and advocacy capacity efforts to expand the workforce development opportunities in Memphis to include a focus on wealth creation by supporting young people beyond a career and include ongoing support in pursuit of advanced education, homeownership, and other asset-building endeavors. View Website Amount 600000 Year 2025 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program Human Services 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
Opportunity Finance Network This grant is to support the 470-member Opportunity Finance Network as it recovers from the abrupt freezing and potential ending of its $2.3 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund award. In particular this grant will provide resources for travel and modest consultant help as OFN works to develop its role in climate and climate lending going forward. View Website Amount 50000 Year 2025 Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Program Environment, Social Investment Practice 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