This grant provides project support to the University of Michigan to launch the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) Clinic in Detroit to strengthen the capacity of the City of Detroit and local nonprofits to equitably address environmental sustainability issues and the impacts of climate change. View Website

This grant supports Years 14 and 15 of the Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) program as well as professional development for Year 14 Fellows. View Website

This expenditure responsibility grant renews Kresge’s funding to Mathematica Policy Research to facilitate a community of practice and provide technical assistance for Kresge’s Detroit Early Childhood Education Support cohort of grantees in Detroit. View Website

This grant will provide general operating support for the Vanguard Community Development Corporation (Vanguard CDC) and strengthen the organization's capacity to revitalize Detroit's North End community. View Website

This grant will support the Access to Bankruptcy Court to provide experienced free legal counsel to individuals with low incomes in need of bankruptcy relief. View Website

This grant will provide funding for U3 Advisors to provide strategic consultation and technical support for the ongoing implementation of the Marygrove Transformation Project and build the long-term capacity of the Live6 Alliance. View Website

This grant provides Jefferson East, Inc. (JEI) with three years of general operating support. View Website

This grant supports Starfish Family Services to complete planning and provides the initial operating subsidy for the new early childhood center to launch on the Marygrove campus in Detroit. View Website

This grant provides project support to the United Community Housing Coalition (UCHC) to expand intake and outreach capacity for eviction and foreclosure protection for Detroit residents, and to add capacity to leverage federal rental assistance funds in Detroit. View Website

This grant provides project support to Data Driven Detroit for the continued development of the Housing Information Portal and Neighborhood Vitality Index, two important pieces of Detroit's evolving neighborhood data infrastructure that provide information that is particularly beneficial to the work of community development organizations. View Website

This grant provides project funding to the Detroit Public Schools Foundation to support project management and school launch planning for the K-8 program at the new school as part of the cradle to career campus at Marygrove. View Website

This grant provides project support to Michigan Community Resources to continue to serve as a capacity- and cohort-building partner for the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit  (KIP:D) initiative, which was later renamed Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus (KIP:D+). View Website

This grant provides general operating support to Midtown Detroit, Inc. for its core services in Detroit’s Midtown and New Center neighborhoods and expansion of these services to the adjoining Milwaukee Junction and Northwest Goldberg neighborhoods. View Website

This grant renews project support to Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC), housed at the University of Detroit Mercy’s School of Architecture, to lead targeted projects to support community-engaged design efforts in Detroit’s neighborhoods. View Website

This grant provides three years of project support to Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, a program of Michigan Advocacy Program, for its Front Door for Immigration Legal Services, which serves as a central and comprehensive hub for intake, legal advice, brief services, referrals and direct representation for Detroit and the surrounding area. View Website

This grant provides support to Enterprise Community Partners for a Community Development Organization Fund that will provide operating support to Detroit CDOs for three years (2021-2023). View Website

This grant will enable the Education Trust to influence national policy debates on college student debt and advocate for changes to practices that exacerbate the disproportionate impact the student loan crisis has on Black borrowers. Since 2020, Ed Trust has collected nearly 1,300 survey responses and conducted over 100 interviews with Black borrowers representing a range of higher education experiences. This data set shows the negative effects of student loan policies, including the pitfalls of income-driven repayment plans, the impacts of the pandemic, and the potential benefits of federal loan relief and cancellation proposals. View Website

This grant will enable College Promise, a national bipartisan organization launched by President Obama in 2015, to both monitor and support cities and states as they implement free community college programs, and to manage Kresge’s CoPro2.0 initiative. This grant, which includes additional operating support, will help College Promise facilitate CoPro2.0 learning exchanges, larger convenings, and produce reports and briefs to help policymakers implement equitable and financially  sustainable tuition-free community college programs nationwide. View Website

This grant will enable Grantmakers for Education (GFE) to plan and host its annual conference with both virtual and in-person components and reaffirm its commitment to supporting learners. Funding will support technology, staff time, speakers, and costs associated with organizing a hybrid convening for the expected 1,000 participants. With the theme “Celebrating 25 Years: A Vision for the Future of Learning and Justice,” the purpose of this year’s conference is to unite funders and experts to collectively explore a vision for the future of learning and justice, as well as to celebrate the quarter-century milestone. The mutual support and knowledge-building GFE provides to its members will be more important than ever to ensure momentum to advance racial justice in philanthropy. View Website

To subsidize school district access to the Degrees of Change digital app, GuidEd Insight, to enable analysis, reporting, and visualization of student enrollment data. View Website