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

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

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Southwest Detroit Business Association, Inc. will work with local property owners to plan, create and support business-ready, first-floor commercial spaces tailored to Southwest Detroit’s unique culture, infrastructure, businesses and community needs. The coalition of businesses and community interests is committed to facilitating the continuation and enhancement of a stable, economically healthy southwest Detroit. View Website

This grant will enable the Florida College Access Network to implement its new 2020-2025 strategic plan to boost postsecondary attainment develop a more robust public policy role to ensure higher education funding and student-centered policies remain a priority during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Foundation connects the university with donors who want to make a difference by providing private, philanthropic support to promote student success, academic initiatives, research and other strategic priorities of the University of South Florida, and will serve as fiscal sponsor for this grant. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Great Communities Now will plan and implement a community-engaged and designed corridor and neighborhood improvement plan along the Whitter corridor in the Denby neighborhood.

This grant will support the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in its efforts to provide emergency financial aid to students experiencing basic needs deficiencies, including food and housing insecurity, exacerbated by college closures and COVID-19 related disruptions. The Foundation’s mission is to foster and further evidence-based initiatives that positively impact postsecondary outcomes in Texas, and will serve as fiscal sponsor for this grant. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Bagley Community Council will transform two vacant lots into a perennial flower garden to provide accessible green space through their Bagley Blooms project in the Bagley neighborhood. View Website

This financial amendment will enable Education Commission of the States to enhance and apply state policies and practices that help students transition successfully from high school into postsecondary education during the COVID-19 pandemic, and ensures Michigan state higher education leaders receive tailored guidance about responding to the complex educational conditions caused by the pandemic. Education Commission of the States partners with education policy leaders to address issues by sharing resources and expertise. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, North End Woodward Community Land Trust will plan and implement the development of the American Riad that will utilize public art and creative architecture to form a model of development that links diverse culture, and expands sustainable, resilient communities in the North End neighborhood. North End Woodward Community Land Trust has worked in North End of Detroit since 2010, through providing affordable housing, food bank, equitable internet, and youth job training. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Heritage Works will design and create a cultural community center and accompanying mural to foster a resilience hub in North Corktown. The cultural-arts organization supports the creative, educational and vocational development of children and families by providing programs in cultural enrichment, performance and visual arts, health and wellness and academic and professional skills. View Website