This project grant will allow Doing Development Differently Detroit to provide technical assistance to three identified pilot Community Investment Trust (CIT) projects, as well as explore various CIT scenarios and develop a CIT playbook tailored to Detroit. View Website

This grant will enable Inclusiv and its Puerto Rican partner to organize, develop and submit a collective application for $6 million in Mitigation Community Development Block Grant funding to fund up to 30 resiliency centers and use learnings to inform a collective response to a request for information from the Department of Energy about how best to deploy $1 billion set aside for roof-top and microgrid solar in Puerto Rico. View Website

This grant will enable Greenprint Partners to invest in staff development as it grows from 10 to 20 full-time employees in 2023. View Website

This grant will fund Kresge’s membership in the GIIN Investors Council for 2023. View Website

This grant provides funding to sponsor Opportunity Finance Network’s 39th annual conference, the premier convening for the community development financial institutions industry. View Website

This grant supports Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in expanding the capacity of community development organizations nationwide and promoting social and economic mobility and opportunities through arts and culture. View Website

This grant will support GEO's 2023 Learning Conference in Washington DC. Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, a LIFT Membership organization, is a community of funders committed to transforming philanthropic culture and practice by connecting members to the resources and relationships needed to support thriving nonprofits and communities. View Website

This grant will enable 20 college access and success organizations to join America’s Promise Alliance (APA), including some current and potential Kresge grantees. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Accounting Aid Society (AAS) to expand tax preparation capacity in Detroit’s neighborhoods as part of the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition. Kresge funding will ensure that non-filers who typically do not file taxes but are eligible for public benefits through the tax system can fully benefit from public resources by supporting AAS to extend tax prep capacity beyond the traditional tax season and to expand into neighborhood sites to provide tax prep services in locations most proximate to residents. View Website

This grant provides project support to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to facilitate the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition, which coordinates tax preparation providers, community-based outreach partners and civic and corporate leaders to advance economic mobility for Detroiters by ensuring access to benefits available through federal and state tax filings. View Website

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

This grant aims to support the next phase of the partnership with R. Adams & Associates, focused on examining the human services public sector's role in securing climate/environmental justice to advance multigenerational social and economic family success.

This grant aims to support the next phase of the partnership with the Economic Security Project (ESP), which is focused on activating and equipping the Guaranteed Income Community of Practice members to move from pilots to policy. This phase will likely include a national GBI summit in Detroit to catalyze existing efforts in Michigan. View Website

This grant supports the next phase of a partnership with Ideas42 focused on dismantling harmful Detroit narratives and adding more local partners, informed by behavioral science expertise, to develop campaign efforts, rigorously measure progress against damaging narratives, and disseminate findings for field building in other places. View Website

This grant enables the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange to share knowledge and advance advocacy in addressing urban flooding through strengthened green stormwater infrastructure policies and practices. The Exchange will teach, convene and increase the capacity of municipal leaders to integrate equity into municipal green stormwater initiatives, support cross-city project collaborations, and build the membership’s community engagement capacity. View Website

This general operating grant will support CatchLight’s mission to combine the practices of art, journalism and social justice to nurture and grow a thriving visual ecosystem. CatchLight will expand and strengthen collaborations between artists, community-based organizations and newsrooms nationwide, focusing on lifting authentic resident narratives about economic inequality. Kresge funds will specifically support staffing, direct funding of visual artists and resources for community outreach. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Cradle to Kindergarten Initiative (C2K) at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy to partner with the State of Michigan to develop a Universal Pre-K implementation plan. C2K will partner with Policy Equity Group to support the State of Michigan to develop a budget and implementation plan for its new, signature Universal Pre-K initiative through data analysis, analysis of best practices from other states, and stakeholder engagement to inform a roadmap that the State of Michigan can implement. View Website

This grant will support History Making Productions in disseminating the Kresge-supported documentary film Gradually, Then Suddenly, a historical account of the bankruptcy and resurgence of Detroit under the fiscal sponsor of CultureSource. View Website

This grant will provide support to complete phase three of the New Capitalism Project (NCP), creating a collaborative space and strategies to advance economic systems change. View Website

This grant provides project support to EarlyWorks to facilitate and provide shared marketing assistance to a network of organizations implementing child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. EarlyWorks will convene and facilitate shared learning across this network of six grantees and document learnings to identify lessons to inform the scalability of this initiative. View Website