Knowledge Quest This amendment allows Kresge Innovative Projects: Memphis grantee Knowledge Quest to provide fresh produce to families experiencing food insecurity due to loss of income and lack of school-provided meals. View Website Amount $22,500 Year 2020 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
The Collective (CLTV) This grant amendment supports the operations of The CLTV, a Kresge Innovative Projects: Memphis grantee, as it works to elevate Black artists and empower Black communities, especially in the city’s Orange Mound neighborhood. View Website Amount $35,000 Year 2020 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities, Arts & Culture Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
FSG Geography Served: Memphis, Tennessee Project: This financial amendment will allow FSG to continue to support the Shared Prosperity Partnership in Memphis. View Website Amount $115,000 Year 2020 Location Boston, Massachusetts Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
Memphis Filmworks, Inc. This grant amendment will support Memphis Filmworks, a Kresge Innovative Projects: Memphis grantee, who has been funded to create, “Our Neighbors Our Stories,” a documentary film series that captures the stories of residents from Memphis neighborhoods to serve as a community advocacy tool. These additional resources will support the documentary’s continued development following project disruptions caused by COVID-19 and increased social unrest throughout 2020. View Website Amount $75,000 Year 2020 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
Trust Neighborhoods Geography Served: Kansas City; Tulsa Project: This grant provides project support to Trust Neighborhoods to fund the legal and planning work for a mixed-income neighborhood trust to spur neighborhood revitalization in Kansas City and Tulsa as part of the Foundation’s efforts to seed resident-owned real estate investment trusts and other shared community ownership structures in neighborhoods. View Website Amount $20,000 Year 2020 Location Kansas City, Missouri Program American Cities Focus Area
Neighborhood Development Center This grant will provide support to the Neighborhood Development Center’s Build from Within Alliance to accelerate its response to the unique needs of neighborhood businesses of color through specialized virtual training and technical assistance offerings as well as cross city tools. View Website Amount $40,000 Year 2020 Location St. Paul, Minnesota Program American Cities Focus Area
Leadership Memphis Geography Served: Memphis, Tennessee Project: This grant provides support for Leadership Memphis to convene 80 executives across the Greater Memphis Region to foster civic understanding and cross-sector collaboration with the goal of finding solutions to the region’s most pressing issues. View Website Amount $20,000 Year 2020 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
The New School Geography Served: Chicago, Illinois Project: This grant seeks to advance shared prosperity in Chicago by contributing to the Color of Wealth study, led by the Chicago Community Trust. View Website Amount $145,000 Year 2020 Location New York, New York Program American Cities Focus Area Knowledge Exchange
Fund For Our Economic Future Geography Served: Cleveland, Ohio Project: This grant provides project support to the Fund for Our Economic Future to analyze resident research and facilitate community organizing to pave the way for a real estate investment trust as part of the Foundation’s efforts to seed resident-owned real estate investment trusts and other shared community ownership structures in neighborhoods. View Website Amount $25,000 Year 2020 Location Cleveland, Ohio Program American Cities Focus Area
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Geography Served: Memphis, Tennessee Project: This grant seeks to advance shared prosperity in Memphis through the Shared Prosperity Fund and supports early action projects identified by a collective impact table in Memphis. Projects are focused on voter turnout, COVID-19 relief and housing stabilization. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2020 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
Neighborhoods of Hope Community Housing Geography Served: Kansas City, Missouri Project: This grant provides project support to Neighborhoods of the Hope Community Housing to fund the implementation of a home ownership equity model in neighborhoods in Kansas City, MO as part of the Foundation’s efforts to seed resident-owned real estate investment trusts and other shared community ownership structures in neighborhoods. View Website Amount $20,000 Year 2020 Location Kansas City, Kansas Program American Cities Focus Area
Greater Milwaukee Committee Geography Served: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Project: This grant supports efforts to generate inclusive economic growth in historically disinvested neighborhoods adjacent to Milwaukee’s downtown. View Website Amount $140,000 Year 2020 Location Milwaukee Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
Center for Transforming Communities Geography Served: Memphis, Tennessee Project: This grant will provide project support to the Center for Transforming Communities - a community engagement and advocacy organization serving Memphis neighborhoods - to plan for the rehabilitation of the abandoned Carnes Elementary School, or a similar substitute, for multipurpose community use. View Website Amount $30,000 Year 2020 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
The Chicago Community Trust Geography Served: Chicago, Illinois Project: This grant provides project support to the Chicago Community Trust to develop a neighborhood plan to address the racial wealth gap in home ownership as part of the Foundation’s efforts to seed resident-owned real estate investment trusts and other shared community ownership structures in neighborhoods. View Website Amount $20,000 Year 2020 Location Chicago, Illinois Program American Cities Focus Area
BlackSpace This grant, fiscally held by In Our Backyards on behalf of BlackSpace, will provide operating support to advance neighborhood-based strategies that engage and co-design projects that serve the needs of communities of color in American cities. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2020 Location Brooklyn, NY Program American Cities, Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Mercy Corps Geography Served: Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Fresno Project: This grant provides project support to Mercy Corps to conduct a first-phase feasibility study for a community investment trust as part of the Foundation’s efforts to seed resident-owned real estate investment trusts and other shared community ownership structures in neighborhoods. View Website Amount $115,000 Year 2020 Location Program American Cities Focus Area
Jane Addams Community Development Corporation Geography Served: Fresno, California Project: This grant provides support for Jane Addams CDC to facilitate a community development co-design process for the Jane Addams neighborhood as part of the pilot round of the Kresge Community Support: Fresno initiative. View Website Amount $15,000 Year 2020 Location Fresno, California Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
Saints Rest Community Economic Development Corporation Geography Served: Fresno, California Project: This grant provides project support to Saints Rest CEDC to expand access to green space and create physical activity opportunities for youth in Southwest Fresno as part of the pilot round of the Kresge Community Support: Fresno initiative. View Website Amount $30,000 Year 2020 Location Fresno, California Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
Southeast Fresno Community Economic Development Association Geography Served: Fresno, California Project: This grant provides project support to Southeast Fresno Economic Development Corporation to provide job training and employment services to residents and technical assistance to small businesses along the Venture & Kings Canyon Corridor as part of the pilot round of the Kresge Community Support: Fresno initiative. View Website Amount $20,000 Year 2020 Location Fresno, California Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
Chinatown Fresno Foundation Geography Served: Fresno, California Project: This grant provides general operating support to Chinatown Fresno Foundation as part of the pilot round of the Kresge Community Support: Fresno initiative. View Website Amount $15,000 Year 2020 Location Fresno, California Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development