This cross-team grant (Education and American Cities) will fund a New York University professor and author, Jodie Adams Kirschner, to write a book using the stories of low-income and students of color in American cities to illustrate college access barriers, rising student debt, and income-based disparities in higher education persistence and attainment.  It builds on three years of ECMC Foundation research funding and will include in-depth reporting and interviews with students and their families primarily in Kresge’s focus city of Memphis, but also in Chicago, Nashville and New York. View Website

This grant supports the International Economic Development Council (IEDC)’s Equitable Economic Development Playbook Initiative. Through this initiative, the IEDC will 1) identify and address economic development practices that contribute to systemic racism; 2) develop a guide for incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in economic development practices; and 3) provide customized technical assistance to assist three pilot communities in implementing DEI oriented economic development practices, with an eye toward scaling these practices across the country. View Website

This grant will provide support for the Urban Institute to conduct a scan of community planning academy models that promote just and equitable land development processes and policies in cities across the U.S., and a feasibility analysis for piloting such an academy in Fresno, California. View Website

This two-year grant provides project support to IFF to support and strengthen Detroit’s early childhood facilities infrastructure by connecting the early childhood and community development systems. View Website

This grant will bolster Resilience Force’s efforts to train and support an increased number of community health workers in New Orleans to help resolve the COVID-19 crisis in communities of color and provide career-track jobs to workers dislocated from the service and hospitality industries. View Website

This grant from the American Cities, Human Services, and Detroit teams supports the Economic Security Project, whose fiscal sponsor is the Hopewell fund, in the inaugural two years of the national Guaranteed Income Community of Practice network. The Project will support emerging leaders in the economic justice field to test the approaches and policies necessary to advance strategies to create guaranteed income as a way of reducing the racial wealth gap and promoting economic mobility among low-wealth families. View Website

The is a cross-team grant with American Cities Program to support the partnership with Think Tennessee to expand its capacity to better advocate for equity-driven asset policy solutions in the state and civic engagement. View Website

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

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

This financial amendment will allow FSG to continue to support the Shared Prosperity Partnership in Memphis. View Website

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This grant supports efforts to generate inclusive economic growth in historically disinvested neighborhoods adjacent to Milwaukee’s downtown. View Website

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