This grant supports Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University's participation in the Siyaphumelela ("We Succeed") initiative, expanding South Africa's national student success network from seven to 20 of the country's 26 universities. By joining Siyaphumelela, SMU will leverage evidence-based student success strategies to increase postsecondary attainment rates, enhance individual social mobility, and contribute to South Africa's prosperity while addressing the legacy of educational inequity. View Website

This grant provides project support to Policy Equity Group (PEG) to serve backbone functions for implementing the Hope Starts Here framework in Detroit. PEG will facilitate coordinated action among initiative leads, develop and implement a policy agenda, and strengthen Hope Starts Here's long-term systems change approach. This investment supports the infrastructure needed to advance collective impact work that addresses systemic barriers facing Detroit families and children, ensuring that multiple stakeholders can work together effectively to create lasting change and expand opportunity in the city. View Website

Movement Strategy Center will partner with Kresge's Arts and Culture team to co-design a new initiative that includes regranting and peer learning opportunities for a cohort of grantees working to advance culture and creativity as catalysts for community transformation. This investment builds the capacity of arts and culture organizations to drive equitable community change by fostering collaboration, shared learning, and resource distribution among practitioners using creative placemaking strategies. View Website

Movement Strategy Center, a national intermediary supporting 40 fiscally sponsored partners and over 180 grantee collaborators, receives operating support to strengthen community-based initiatives working at the intersection of cultural strategy, racial justice, and movement building. This cross-team investment recognizes the organization's role in advancing equitable community change through creative approaches that center culture as a driver of social transformation. View Website

This grant enables the Justice Climate Fund to design, test, and launch an investment fund framework supporting its network of community lenders with pilot programming across six target markets: Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, Georgia, and Texas. The funding helps sustain its growth and infrastructure to support community-based climate finance.

Ikaso Consulting will serve as the learning partner for a cohort of grantee organizations in Memphis, Detroit, and New Orleans that help families access public benefits, secure quality employment, and increase income. Ikaso will monitor state-level policy changes affecting safety net programs (TANF, SNAP, Medicaid, and childcare), develop strategies to reduce administrative burdens on families, and create a virtual hub sharing best practices for effective employer engagement. This investment strengthens pathways to economic opportunity for low-income families in urban communities by building the capacity of organizations that connect people to critical resources and employment. View Website

This renewal grant strengthens two complementary cohorts within Hawaii Investment Ready's Food Systems Accelerator: one focused on Indigenous entrepreneurs and another on mission-aligned funders from government, philanthropic, and private sectors. The accelerator brings together high-potential innovators across the food system value chain committed to building a viable and resilient local food system in Hawaii. The funding also supports a new "Food as Medicine" working group to accelerate systems mapping and design efforts aimed at cultivating ecologically diverse and resilient food systems that advance health equity by addressing food access, cultural food sovereignty, and community wellbeing. View Website

This grant provides continued support to Groundswell, which partners with communities to develop community solar projects and resilience hubs while operating a subscriber-management platform that enables low-wealth customers to seamlessly access and benefit from solar programs. Groundswell's work advances energy equity by removing barriers that have historically excluded low-income communities from clean energy opportunities. View Website

This grant funds the third round of the Thrive Leaders Network, providing coaching stipends and leadership development to 50 diverse executive directors from Kresge's Education grantee portfolio who are proximate to low-income communities and communities of color. Leaders will participate in cohort-based learning and an annual in-person summit designed to build community, strengthen leadership skills, and equip them to navigate the challenges and opportunities of leading college access and success organizations during uncertain times. View Website

This grant continues support for the Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, a regranting intermediary that strengthens frontline organizations' capacity to advance equitable climate regulations across 13 states. The Equity Fund combines sustained funding with expert policy analysis and narrative strategy to build authentic power in communities most impacted by climate change and energy transitions. View Website

This grant supports CG Squared to deliver a three-part Employee and Organizational Wellbeing Program to Kresge grantee partners. The program responds to expressed needs from nonprofit partners struggling to support their teams through increased service demand, volatile funding, layoffs and compassion fatigue. This cross-cutting investment recognizes that organizational resilience and staff wellbeing are essential to sustaining the capacity of community-serving organizations during challenging times, ensuring they can continue advancing equity and opportunity despite external pressures.

This three-year unrestricted capacity-building grant supports The Center for Equitable Higher Education (CEHE), California's only research center exclusively focused on higher education basic needs. CEHE conducts research and evaluation to address food insecurity, housing instability, and inadequate healthcare and childcare access among college students. The center's work aims to drive California's higher education systems to prioritize student basic needs and implement equitable, effective programs that enable students to thrive and graduate, removing structural barriers to educational opportunity. View Website

This grant supports the Asset Funders Network's Memphis Chapter—the only formal funder table in Memphis—to advance efforts addressing wealth and income inequalities in the city. The funding will support salaries for a local program officer and administrative & events coordinator, as well as convenings where funders develop strategies and align resources to improve asset building outcomes with a focus on housing and employment. This investment strengthens the philanthropic infrastructure needed to coordinate place-based community development efforts that expand economic opportunity and build wealth for low-income Memphis residents. View Website

The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum advances health equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities through community-driven, multisector partnerships across the U.S. and its territories. The Forum leverages its national partner network to expand access to culturally competent care, strengthen grassroots health initiatives, and advocate for policy changes that embed community-centered models into funding and service delivery systems. This investment supports the Forum's work to dismantle barriers to health access and build more equitable health ecosystems for historically underserved communities. View Website

This grant will provide general operating support for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), the premier network through which local government sustainability practitioners across the U.S. access resources and collaborate to advance their work. View Website

The Aspen Institute Congressional Program was created in 1983, to help Congress govern more effectively by giving members a unique opportunity to engage each other and experts, fostering open, civil discourse in pursuit of the national interest. View Website

This grant provides operating support to Non-Profit Enterprise at Work (NEW), one of five intermediaries that form a collaborative committed to strengthening nonprofit sector capacity in Detroit. View Website

This grant renewal will support the ability of the National Council of Urban Indian Health's (NCUIH) to advocate on behalf of its 41 member organizations for parity in federal funding formulas and to increase awareness of the most pressing health concerns of urban Native communities. View Website

This two-year implementation grant from the Health and American Cities teams will enable Live Again Fresno to expand its trauma-informed education, community outreach and safety programs in the Jane Addams neighborhood as a member of the Fresno Building Healthy Communities collaborative that promotes health in economically disadvantaged Fresno communities with high exposure to violence and limited access to health promoting resources. View Website

This project grant will fund Green Living Science to support a city of Detroit Green Task Force research trip to Philadelphia, PA to build foundational knowledge across the multi-sector attendees to advance and implement renewable energy, recycling, composting, transportation, stormwater management, and climate resilience practices in Detroit. View Website