This operating grant supports the National Public Housing Museum to continue programs that integrate creativity, housing justice, and economic empowerment such as cooperative entrepreneurship, workforce training, oral histories of public housing residents, and storytelling as tools for achieving social and civic outcomes, as well as support for artists, activists, and cultural workers in addressing inequities in housing and related issues. View Website

This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

This grant will support UPROSE to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

This grant provides continued general operating support for Race Forward, which works to build a multiracial democracy and a racially equitable society through interlocking strategies of narrative, power building, and institutional practice. The organization works nationally while grounding each of its initiatives in particular communities. View Website

This grant will support Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA), as lead partner of the LEAP-LA coalition, to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. These efforts will help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. PSR-LA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

This grant will support the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts (PHIWM), which convenes the Live Well Springfield coalition to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. View Website

This grant will support National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) experts to provide technical coaching and regional/topic area peer learning cohorts in a variety of subject matters including but not limited to emergency management, environmental health, data systems, policy advocacy, clinic resilience hubs, and heat-health monitoring. View Website

This grant will support Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. LCJA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

This grant will support the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. EHC is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity  initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

This grant will support ECN to advance affordable and resilient energy solutions; deepen partnerships with healthcare institutions to better link environmental conditions with health outcomes; invest in resident leadership development; and work to influence city policy to address the climate and health challenges facing Detroit’s east side. View Website

This operating grant supports Define American's mission and its work with artists, storytellers and culture bearers to promote authentic and nuanced storytelling about immigrant experiences through leveraging research, evidence-based resources and mutual support networks to strengthen cultural expressions that combat the polarization of immigrant stories across mediums and industries. View Website

This cross-team operating grant to the Center for Community Progress supports its mission to foster strong, equitable communities where vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties are transformed into assets for the benefit of neighbors and neighborhoods through creative place-keeping, commercial corridor reuse, and resident-led strategies in focus cities and across the country. View Website

This grant seeks to fortify representative local journalism. Catchlight will invest in community-based photojournalists and journalists to partner with local newsrooms and community organizations to tell the stories of community and community residents. View Website

This grant will support Catalyst Miami to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

This grant will support the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. APEN is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity Initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

This grant will support the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, (ANHE) mobilize health care and public health professionals, and advance policy, practice, and program implementation by supporting place-based community-driven solutions that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. Virginia Organizing, Inc. provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

This general operating grant supports the Center for Cultural Power in building a thriving national network of artists, culture bearers and movement groups working to shift world views through cultural strategy. The Center will bolster its network organizing and cultural strategy trainings, tools and field learning that build power for migration, bodily autonomy, climate and racial justice. View Website

This grant supports the Movement Media Alliance, a coalition of social justice journalism organizations building a vibrant movement media ecosystem through shared infrastructure and collaboration. Kresge funding will expand arts and community coverage among coalition members and strengthen reporting on culture-based organizing that advances broader movement-building efforts. This investment recognizes the critical role of independent media in amplifying community voices, documenting creative placemaking strategies, and supporting the cultural narratives that drive social change and equity in urban communities. View Website

Next City, Inc. received cross-team support to advance solutions-based journalism on urban issues. The grant sustains Next City's Detroit reporting hub, expands health-focused coverage, and highlights innovative approaches from place-based community development partners across Kresge's focus cities, amplifying stories of cross-sector collaboration that build just and equitable urban communities. View Website

Movement Strategy Center will partner with Kresge's Arts and Culture team to co-design a new initiative that includes regranting and peer learning opportunities for a cohort of grantees working to advance culture and creativity as catalysts for community transformation. This investment builds the capacity of arts and culture organizations to drive equitable community change by fostering collaboration, shared learning, and resource distribution among practitioners using creative placemaking strategies. View Website