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Kresge’s grant database allows you to search for grants awarded since 2009. You can search and filter by program area, focus area, year and location.

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Urban Institute

Through this grant, over the course of three years, the Urban Institute will work on comprehensive community development strategies with cross-sector teams in 3-5 chronically underinvested cities. The work will encompass reparative strategies and community benefits agreements; place-based community development finance ecosystems and cooperative business models; and equitable preparedness via Community Disaster Resilience Zones. View Website

Amount

$2,000,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Southwest Fresno Development Corporation

This general operating grant will support Southwest Fresno Development Corporation (SWFDC)’s community development efforts focused on homeownership education programs, affordable housing development, and community engagement in Southwest Fresno. View Website

Amount

$160,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Fresno, CA

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Ubuntu Village NOLA

This grant from the Health and American Cities programs will support Ubuntu Village expand its trauma-informed education, training, community outreach, cultural programming, mentorship, and advocacy programs that support New Orleans residents impacted by violence, including those served through the University Medical Center hospital-based violence intervention program and Seeds of NOLA Trauma Recovery Center. View Website

Amount

$150,000

Year

2024

Location

2021 South Dupre St, New Orleans LA 70125

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

This grant supports Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in expanding the capacity of community development organizations nationwide and promoting social and economic mobility and opportunities through arts and culture. View Website

Amount

$900,000

Year

2023

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Human Services

Focus Area

Knowledge Exchange

Economic Security Project

This grant aims to support the next phase of the partnership with the Economic Security Project (ESP), which is focused on activating and equipping the Guaranteed Income Community of Practice members to move from pilots to policy. This phase will likely include a national GBI summit in Detroit to catalyze existing efforts in Michigan. View Website

Amount

$900,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

American Cities, Detroit, Human Services

Focus Area

Supporting Public Policy and Field Building

Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative

This grant provides general operating support to Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, a neighborhood community land trust and housing justice organization focused on tenant advocacy and developing and stewardship of permanently affordable rental housing in the New Orleans Mid-City neighborhood. View Website

Amount

$250,000

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, LA

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Local Initiatives Support Corporation – Memphis

This grant will support LISC's efforts to create equitable, safe, and resilient communities of opportunity in Memphis. Kresge funds will help to staff LISC's Memphis office and fund two programs: the Greater Memphis Community Violence Intervention Program and the 901Help home repair program. View Website

Amount

$800.000

Year

2023

Location

Memphis, TN

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Thrive New Orleans

This grant renews support for Thrive New Orleans’ Thrive Works Green and Thrive Green Business Academy programs. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Central Valley Community Foundation

Kresge support will build on CVCF’s capacity to provide technical assistance, facilitation, data analysis, and more for the community-based organizations leading DRIVE(Developing the Region's Inclusive and Vibrant Economy) initiatives. View Website

Amount

$1,050,000

Year

2023

Location

Fresno, California

Program

American Cities, Education

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

The Equity Alliance

This grant will support the Equity Alliance to improve civic engagement and increase voter participation rates in Memphis and other cities in Tennessee. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2023

Location

Nashville, TN

Program

American Cities, Human Services

Focus Area

Supporting Public Policy and Field Building

Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation

This general operating grant provides organizational support for Propeller’s BIPOC entrepreneur and small business accelerator programs, including its new Impact Fund II, a $3 million venture fund capitalized by the United States Department of Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, LA

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Greater New Orleans Funders Network

This grant provides continued general operating support for the Greater New Orleans Funders Network (GNOFN), an affinity group of over 25 local and national philanthropic groups collectively advancing residents' social and economic mobility in the Greater New Orleans region. View Website

Amount

$80,000

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, LA

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Next City

This operating grant to Next City supports the power of journalism to uplift stories of solutions that intersect culture, creativity and social justice in cities across the country, including potential new partnerships with newsrooms in Detroit. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

PolicyLink

This operating grant supports PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity, to work with federal, state and local partners to advance its Winning on Equity campaign and deliver results for the 100 million economically insecure people in the United States. View Website

Amount

$2,250,000

Year

2023

Location

Oakland, California

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, Human Services, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

Build From Within Alliance

This grant will support an in-person convening of people from Build from Within Alliance's 16 member organizations, key partners, and funders to share ideas and best practices that support micro-entrepreneurs and inclusive community and economic development. View Website

Amount

$40,000

Year

2023

Location

St. Paul, MN

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Knowledge Exchange

Springboard to Opportunities

This grant will support Springboard to Opportunities in promoting people-centered policy-making and movement-building in Jackson, MS, through storytelling and an international entrepreneurial learning exchange for Black mothers in Jackson. View Website

Amount

$275,000

Year

2023

Location

Jackson, MS

Program

American Cities, Human Services

Focus Area

Place-Based Opportunity Ecosystems

Greater New Orleans Foundation

This project grant to the Greater New Orleans Foundation supports the creation of a strategic plan for the implementation of the New Orleans “BioDistrict,” a public entity and economic development district created by the Louisiana State Legislature to stimulate the growth of the New Orleans bioscience sector economy in central New Orleans. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Collective Energy Co, LLC

This grant will strengthen the efforts of Collective Energy to develop resilient power systems for health centers in underserved communities, including through piloting new pathways, enabled by the Inflation Reduction Act, to monetize the federal Solar Investment Tax Credit; modeling an approach to system installation that expands diversity and opportunity in the clean-energy workforce; and undertaking community-centered educational and market-assessment activities, and completing predevelopment in at least five health centers each in Fresno and Hawaii. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

Ojai, CA

Program

American Cities, Detroit, Environment, Health, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Broad Community Connections

This general operating grant renews support for Broad Community Connection’s mission of revitalizing New Orleans’ Broad Street commercial corridor and promoting the surrounding community's economic, residential, and cultural development. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Communities First Infrastructure Alliance

This grant will enable the Communities First Fund to coordinate regional convenings to foster greater coordination and accountability among local, state and federal government officials, capacity builders, technical assistance providers, practitioners and community partners around spending ARPA and IIJA federal infrastructure funds. It will also support its work to incorporate arts and cultural strategists as an element of infrastructure planning and to strengthen the capacity of regional groups and movement intermediaries by providing general operating support. View Website

Amount

$1,250,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Knowledge Exchange

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