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

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

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

This cross-team grant with the American Cities Program will support the Cowen Institute to strengthen the New Orleans College and Career Attainment Network (NOLA CCAN). NOLA CCAN is a city-wide coordinated effort focused on increasing college access and success for low-income, first-generation, and students of color. The grant supports key staff positions, expands FAFSA completion efforts, enhances counselor training, and strengthens data use across 70+ high schools and organizations. View Website

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

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

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

This general operating support grant helps the Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL) strengthen pathways to an affordable, quality college education by exposing and eliminating predatory behavior in higher education. View Website

This grant will support Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions in Southwest Atlanta that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. View Website

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

This cross-team grant with the American Cities Program supports the College Advising Corps’ (CAC) planning efforts to place near-peer college advisors in five Fresno high schools in fall 2026. View Website

This cross-team grant from the Education and American Cities Programs will support MDRC to partner with Tennessee Achieves (tnAchieves) and Southwest Tennessee Community College (SWTCC), the only community college in Memphis, to strengthen comprehensive student support systems. View Website

This grant renews operating support to Juxtaposition Arts, a youth-focused organization in North Minneapolis that works at the intersection of design, community development, and social enterprise and pairs young people with paid apprenticeships to foster their creative skills, community leadership, and professional readiness. View Website

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

This grant helps launch Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) ELEVATE (Engaging Leaders and Empowering Vision that Actively Transforms Education) Postsecondary Network, a large-scale, coordinated, multi-state, change network designed to address persistent inequities in access and success for low-income and students of color. View Website

This grant will help the International Economic Development Council (IDEC) develop and launch the Community Capital Investment Accelerator. View Website

This grant will renew general operating support to Healthy Gulf, whose staff will support robust community engagement in New Orleans and coastal Louisiana to strengthen climate-resilience planning and decision-making at the local level, including consideration of economic, environmental, and social justice factors. View Website

This grant supports Health Leads focus on expanding equitable maternal health services, strengthen the community health worker and doula workforce with improved reimbursement, and develop community-governed AI systems. View Website

This cross-team grant renewal with the Arts & Culture program provides continued general operating support to Community LIFT (LIFT), a community development intermediary advancing the revitalization of underinvested neighborhoods across Memphis. View Website

This grant provides three years of project support to Citizens Research Council of Michigan to sustain its staff conducting public policy research and analysis focused on the City of Detroit. Funding will support research on a range of issues, including taxation, the City's budget, economic development policy, and service delivery models. View Website