With support from the Kresge Foundation, NPR will deliver to the American public critical news, information, analysis, and programming that meets the highest standards of public service journalism and cultural expression that reflects the full diversity of the country. View Website

This grant supports Aspen Institute to launch Higher Education Climate Action, an initiative that will bring together higher education, climate, student, and workforce leaders to develop a holistic agenda to support higher education in taking action on climate change. The initiative seeks to mobilize the higher education sector to more rapidly advance climate solutions. View Website

This grant enables the Private Equity Stakeholder Project to estimate the costs of private equity ownership, acquisition, and dividend recapitalization of the health care infrastructure in four cities and highlight opportunities for public and private finance models that advance health equity. This collaboration with the Social Investment practice will inform a future multi-phase project and our Community Investment for Health Equity focus area. View Website

This planning grant will enable Vision Maker Media to partner more extensively with Native community organizations and health specialists to expand the health focus of the Native Youth Media Project, develop Native youth media story development skills and health stories, and address mental health, gun violence, youth suicide, and other health issues in Native American and Alaska Native communities. View Website

This general operating support grant will enable the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention to advance Medicaid reimbursement for hospital-based violence intervention programs, expand its partnerships with health institutions, provide training and technical assistance, and support data surveillance projects and innovation in the community violence intervention field. View Website

The Roundtable on Population Health and Public Health Practice (Roundtable) has been documenting and disseminating information about the science and practice of population health improvement, including highlighting specific, in-depth examples from a variety of communities from across the country. Although the Roundtable has a primarily national focus, it has provided opportunities to elevate Detroit-specific examples. In February 2020, they held a workshop on harnessing the value of inclusive healthy places featured a case example of equitable and inclusive revitalization work by collaborators from the City of Detroit planning department along with the University of Detroit Mercy, the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, and Reimagining the Civic Commons. This grant would specifically provide an opportunity to support 1-2 Board Associates/Fellows to participate in the roundtable and Board activities. View Website

The Roundtable uses innovative, integrated, multi-sectoral methods to create sustainable, systems-wide solutions to end the obesity pandemic. Its mission is to bring together diverse sectors and voices to end obesity. The primary goal of the Roundtable is to help decrease the prevalence of obesity through a systems approach that harmonizes mindsets and coordinates leadership and action across the multiple sectors represented within the Roundtable. View Website

This grant by the Health and American Cities teams will enable Heal 901 to partner more extensively with the Memphis-Shelby County Schools and Shelby County Health Department to provide school- and neighborhood-based youth violence prevention education, increase access to community-based behavioral health services, and expand its network of partners advocating for investments in community wellness. View Website

This grant will support the COPH through its Center for Leadership in Public Health practice to serve as the new NPO for the Emerging Leaders in Public Health Initiative. The COPH will partner with the Muma College of Business, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the Big Cities Health Coalition, and the National Association of County and City Officials as an interdisciplinary network, the Public Health Regenerative Leadership Collaborative.This is aligned with our Community Health Ecosystems focus area and strategies for supporting workforce and future of public health activities. View Website

This grant continues Kresge’s membership and support for the Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders, the only funder affinity group focused on the needs of funders and investors across the spectrum of sustainable agriculture and food systems. The organization is deepening the embrace of racial equity by its members, including in their grantmaking approaches and practices. View Website

This grant will support Boston Ujima Project, one of the nation’s leading democratically managed lenders dedicated to building wealth and ownership within low-income communities of color. Ujima has proven to be adept at blending investments and purchasing commitments from major anchor institutions like Boston Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital with small-dollar investments from neighborhood residents, together with a comprehensive array of business support services, to support entrepreneurship and ownership in historically disadvantaged communities.

This grant will support a bilingual graduate intern position with Duke University’s World Food Policy Center to work with our Equitable Food Policy Oriented Development grantee partner, El Departamento de la Comida (El Depa) to develop a case study documenting and evaluating the relief efforts in Puerto Rico after the 2018 hurricanes. The case study will assess how a U.S. territory can best achieve community-driven models of food sovereignty, including accessing USDA funding sources. View Website

This grant to DAISA Enterprises will provide ongoing support for the Equitable Food Oriented (EFOD) Collaborative, which is comprised of Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latinx leaders from community-based organizations engaged in food enterprise in communities across the country. DAISA will continue to staff, facilitate, and provide strategic guidance through project management, communications, policy, and technical assistance. View Website

This grant to the Amplify Fund will support primarily BIPOC-led organizations in seven states and Puerto Rico that are advocating for equitable community development outcomes.  Amplify operates differently than many other funder collaboratives in that major strategic and governance decisions are made primarily by the 55 field partners in the eight places and regions (rather than funders) to ensure that funding decisions authentically represent community priorities. Fiscal Sponsor: Neighborhood Funders Group View Website

This grant will support Community Services Unlimited (CSU) to serve as the Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) Collaborative’s fiscal sponsor. CSU has many years of experience as a fiscal sponsor and is itself an EFOD exemplar. Key roles will include re-granting, contracting, and technical assistance (TA). View Website

This grant will support Community Credit Lab (CCL) in launching the Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) Fund to manage and deploy capital to support community-led, food-based projects to become revenue generating within 12-months. Designed in partnership with the EFOD Collaborative, the Fund is an affordable financing model that centers community food justice work and is designed to build the capacity and support the long-term sustainability of community-rooted, food-based organizations led by local Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and other leaders of color. View Website

This grant will support Communities in Partnership to grow Innovation for Liberation, a BIPOC-led model for social change across all social determinants of health, which seeks to holistically serve communities who experience the worst outcomes of systemic racism. View Website

This grant will enable Grounded Solutions Network to support its members in three to six Southern cities in acquiring, renovating, and selling single-family homes in low-cost, majority Black and Latinx zip codes in high-growth metropolitan areas. This will fill a critical gap in the housing finance ecosystem for community land trusts and other shared-equity housing models that are designed to build assets and wealth for low-income families who have been excluded from mainstream finance mechanisms while preserving affordability for future generations. View Website

This grant will support Urban Habitat as they work with a wide range of partners to build a more effective ecosystem of community land trusts (CLTs) and other shared equity housing models in the Bay Area.  While some cities in the Bay Area are well past an affordability threshold for CLTs to be a viable option, Urban Habitat is helping to establish CLTs in the remaining pockets of affordability in the region in cities such as Vallejo to create pathways for low-income families of color to become home-owners. View Website

This grant will enable Health Careers Connection (HCC) to provide three 10-week paid summer internships  to work with the District of Columbia and City of Baltimore health departments. The students will be supervised by health department leaders who will also ensure that they have the information, professional development resources, and skills building opportunities needed to successfully complete the internship and begin to build careers as public health leaders. View Website