University of Texas at Austin This grant supports Project MALES aims to strengthen institutional capacity, align K–12 and postsecondary systems, and develop student leadership through Research Institutes and annual Texas Student Leadership Summits. Outcomes include a revised consortium plan, enhanced collaboration, and leadership development to improve college attainment for thousands across Texas, an Education focus state. View Website Amount $375,000 Year 2025 Location Austin, Texas Program Education Focus Area
The James and Grace Lee Boggs School This general operating support grant will help the James and Grace Lee Boggs School fund their place-based education curriculum for students in grades K-8 on Detroit's east side.The school's namesake, Grace Lee Boggs, was an influential leader in both in the Black and Asian American civil rights movements, as well a historic community leader in Detroit between the 20th and 21st centuries. View Website Amount $10,000 Year 2025 Location Detroit, MI Program Detroit Focus Area
Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition This grant supports the Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition (SWCBC) and partners in implementing place-based, community-driven climate and health interventions in the state’s industrial-transportation corridor. Building on longstanding partnerships in environmental health and justice, youth leadership, and policy advocacy, SWCBC aims to reduce climate and health risks, expand neighborhood resilience, and strengthen community capacity. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2025 Location Detroit, MI Program Environment Focus Area
Louisiana Green Corps This grant will support the Louisiana Green Corps (LAGC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local level that help communities in New Orleans better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. LAGC is one of 32 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $650,000 Year 2025 Location Program Environment Focus Area
Grantmakers in the Arts This project grant provides lead sponsorship for the 2026 Grantmakers in the Arts national conference in Memphis, TN. Conference programming will showcase emergent place-based strategies, local and regional cultural sites, and practitioners from Memphis and the South to expose arts funders from across the country to the depth of creative practices in this region. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2025 Location Seattle, Washington Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing This cross-team grant renews operating support to Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing to continue its grantmaking, capacity building, field convening, research and learning programs focused on advancing a strong, interconnected, and well-resourced youth and intergenerational organizing field, including those applying arts and cultural strategies. View Website Amount $1,100,000 Year 2025 Location New York, New York Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Fresno Building Healthy Communities This grant will support Fresno Building Healthy Communities (FBHC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local level that help communities in Fresno better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. FBHC is one of 32 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $375,000 Year 2025 Location Fresno, CA Program Environment Focus Area
Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative This grant will support the Fairmount Indigo CDC (FICC), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state level 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. Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Boston, Massachusetts Program Environment Focus Area
Eastside Arts Alliance This operating grant supports Eastside Arts Alliance to continue to unite art with activism for community empowerment and development through cultural programming on its campus which includes a theater, studios, affordable housing, and nonprofit storefront spaces. View Website Amount $200,000 Year 2025 Location Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative This grant will support the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII) in mobilizing health care and public health professionals to advance climate-related strategies, practice, and program implementation by supporting place-based community-driven solutions that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption. BARHII is one of 32 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Oakland, California Program Environment Focus Area
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation This grant will support the Detroit Regional Chamber (DRC) in establishing the Data Research Hub within the Gallup Center for Black Voices. This new longitudinal platform will annually collect survey information of more than 11,000 Detroit residents on economic, social, neighborhood, and environmental change, providing data for evidence-based community investment and policy decisions. View Website Amount $245,000 Year 2025 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area
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 $600,000 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 $200,000 Year 2025 Location St. Paul, MN Program Human Services Focus Area
IFF – Detroit This grant provides project support to IFF to support comprehensive community development strategies in key Detroit neighborhoods, anchored by high-quality early childhood facilities and programs. View Website Amount $830,000 Year 2025 Location Program Detroit 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 $350,000 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 $390,000 Year 2025 Location Montclair, N.J. Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. This cross-team grant between the Detroit and Human Services programs provides project support to the ACLU to ensure continued equitable implementation of federally funded early care and education programming in communities like Detroit that depend heavily on federally funded programs. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2025 Location Program Detroit, Human Services Focus Area
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 $275,000 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 $303,500 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 $400,000 Year 2025 Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Program American Cities, Detroit Focus Area