This renewal grant supports Walker-Miller Energy Services, a nationally recognized Black-and woman-owned firm based in Detroit with deep expertise in energy efficiency, workforce development, and community engagement. Funding will support three climate justice initiatives: (1) sponsorship for RECESS 2025: Resilience and Equity in the Clean Energy Sector Summit, (2) advanced heat pump trainings, and (3) solar + storage site-assessment planning, to advance their vision of creating an Emerald Corner eco-district in New Center, in partnership with the NAACP. View Website

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

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

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

This cross-team grant renews support for the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development to mobilize and strengthen over 150 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community-based organizations in low‑income communities across the U.S through coalition-building and creative placemaking initiatives. View Website

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This grant will support the Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local level that help communities in Memphis better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

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

This project grant supports Another World Exists to build on the cross-sector caucuses convened before the 2024 White House/National Endowment for the Arts Summit. Specifically, it covers project personnel and expenses related to organizing groups and networks working at the intersection of arts and health, climate, and community development for shared learning and collective action across geographies and sectors. View Website

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

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

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

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

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

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