This grant amendment will support the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice’s COVID-19 response in Gulf Coast communities. The Gulf Coast Water Justice Project works to strengthen the capacity building infrastructure of five environmental justice organizations working to mitigate flood risks through the advancement of local, state and regional policy that is co-created and informed by the experience of impacted communities. View Website

This grant amendment will support Green Latinos’ COVID-19 rapid response efforts. Additionally, a conversion of their remaining grant funds to general operating support will allow GreenLatinos to hire a water policy consultant. View Website

This grant amendment will support Healthy Schools Campaign’s ongoing work to transform Chicago schoolyards into shared green spaces for learning, while reducing neighborhood flooding through the use of green storm water infrastructure. Due to COVID-19, Healthy Schools Campaign lost both corporate and municipal financial support, which caused an economic hardship and increased the challenge to facilitate their world-renown community design process to support green storm water infrastructure development in Black and Latino communities. View Website

This grant amendment aims to help the Urban Sustainability Directors Network as its member cities navigate the public health and economic crises driven by COVID-19 as well as the recent uprisings in response to racial injustice. View Website

This grant provides project support to Michigan Nonprofit Association for the work of a collaborative of five intermediaries to address the needs of Southeast Michigan nonprofits as they face new and amplified challenges as a result of the COVID pandemic. Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) is a statewide membership organization with a mission to serve nonprofits to advance their missions.  View Website

This grant supports Tools for Hope, an innovative series of free virtual workshops to support early childhood education professionals as they face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as programming to highlight the work of Detroit’s artists and arts organizations to assist the recovery of the arts sector. View Website

This joint grant from the Arts & Culture and Detroit Programs provides start-up capital for the City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture & Entrepreneurship to complete its initial set of projects, including funding for the city’s only COVID-19 artist relief fund. View Website

This financial amendment funds the Michigan College Access Network’s COVID-19 Response Grants, which provide up to $10,000 each to schools, organizations and communities throughout the state to mitigate COVID-19’s harmful impact on college access and success. The network seeks to increase college readiness, participation and completion rates in Michigan, particularly among students from low-income households, and first-generation and minority students. View Website

This financial amendment will enable the National College Attainmnet Network (NCAN) to enhance its online learning platform, called Fundamentals for College Access and Success Providers, in response to increased demand for professional development from practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic. NCAN's mission is to build, strengthen, and empower communities committed to college access and success so that all students, especially those underrepresented in postsecondary education, can achieve their educational dreams. View Website

This grant will assist the National Civil Rights Museum in its efforts to safely reopen, reengage visitor audiences and resume operations following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Museum, located at the historic Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, honors and preserves the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King by chronicling the American civil rights movement and telling the story of the ongoing struggle for human rights. View Website

This general operating support grant will allow SoHarlem to continue operations and retain its staff and creatives. SoHarlem leveraged the skills of its artisans to manufacture personal protective gear – masks and gowns – to essential workers in Harlem early on during the COVID-19 pandemic. View Website

This grant amendment will enable the Community Arts Stabilization Trust to continue operations, address the need to re-envision cultural spaces and preserve and create long-term affordable spaces for creative work and housing. View Website

Brightmoor Alliance and Sidewalk Festival for the Performing Arts will pair artists with community members to design and implement nature-based projects and public performances in Eliza Howell Park. View Website

Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation will plan for the development of a neighborhood-based center for Southwest Detroit residents to access housing resources and provide job training opportunities in housing and industrial trades for local at-risk youth. View Website

Eastside Community Network will collaborate with partners to identify a large swath of city-owned vacant land and engage nearby residents to explore green infrastructure options as an alternative to conventional maintenance. View Website

EcoWorks will support a student-led effort of the Detroit Institute of Technology at Cody High School to plan a community space and park at a vacant lot across the street from the school. View Website

Focus: HOPE will study the feasibility of redeveloping a blighted residential and commercial site on West Davison Avenue as a live/work co-op space for entrepreneurs. View Website

Global Detroit will engage the Banglatown community in neighborhood planning, including, outreach efforts and community meetings. View Website

This grant will support a set of virtual convenings in September 2020 to create a policy agenda to support public housing authorities in recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, as well as to support long-term preservation and revitalization of the public housing stock. The Urban Institute is a nonprofit research organizations that opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, the Yunion will be plan and implement a community hub and collaborative space focused on utilizing art as healing through the development of a state of the art performing arts studio and computer lab in the Hope Village neighborhood. The Yunion's mission is to counter negative cultural influences that misdirect the lives of youth by raising awareness and strengthening families through innovative prevention programming, education, parental engagement, mentoring, and counseling. View Website