Popps Packing is an artist-run neighborhood-based nonprofit with a mission to create a robust cultural exchange between local artistic communities, neighbors and an international coterie of visiting residents. This grant provides project support to Popps Packing for the final phase of renovation of the Popps Emporium building in the East Davison Village (EDV) neighborhood in northeast Detroit. View Website

This grant through the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative supports a youth mentorship and entrepreneurship program in conjunction with students from Detroit Western International High School and Lawrence Technological University as they repurpose and transform shipping containers into a retail space. Ponyride, based in a 33,000-square-foot building in Detroit’s Corktown, supports a diverse group of artists, creative entrepreneurs and makers committed to working together to make Detroit communities sustainable. View Website

The nonprofit works to save America’s sites, buildings and objects of national significance or interest. Eighteen months of funding will support the advancement of the revitalization of historic properties through targeted, place-based action in Detroit and build the long-term capacity of Detroit’s civic actors to implement reuse revitalization. View Website

The project, as a part of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, will include a series of community planning sessions to develop a neighborhood integration and revitalization strategy that enables the neighborhood’s population of immigrants, refugees and native Detroiters to work together to improve quality of life in the community. This project will be led collaboratively by the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit, a long-standing Detroit-based immigrant service provider, and the Islamic Center of Detroit, a community and faith-based agency that has served Detroit’s Warrendale community for nearly 20 years. View Website