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
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 Place-Based Community Development
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 Building a More Robust Human Services Field
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
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 Place-Based Community Development
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 Place-Based Community Development
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 Place-Based Community Development
MLK50: Justice Through Journalism Kresge support will build on MLK50’s reporting team by adding a community engagement supporter to collaborate with community organizations to increase Memphians’ engagement and funds for freelance reporting on worker’s rights and labor issues. View Website Amount $190,000 Year 2023 Location Memphis, TN Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission, United Way of Fresno and Madera County, and the Center for Community Voices at Fresno State will use philanthropic funding to pilot a guaranteed basic income program to provide 150 low-income households with $500/month for 12 months. Funding from Kresge and other philanthropies will also support a community-based participatory evaluation of the program to inform longer-term systems change in Fresno County. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2023 Location Fresno, CA Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development
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 the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
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
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 Place-Based Community Development
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 the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
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 Place-Based Community Development
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 Developing Supportive, Aligned Public Policy
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
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 Place-Based Community Development
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 Place-Based Community Development
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
Miami Foundation This grant supports an initiative to scale the guiding principles and culture change processes successfully developed in the Office of Economic Development to the Office of Resilience in Miami Dade County to build a whole organization skilled at establishing shared strategies, practicing shared leadership, and collaborating to implement strategies aimed at creating better outcomes for County residents. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2023 Location Miami, Fla. Program American Cities Focus Area Place-Based Community Development