Established in 1991 to preserve and present African and African-American cultural arts traditions, the Carr Center (as the Arts League of Michigan is now known) has evolved into a multidisciplinary arts hub. This grant provides the organization resources to undergo a strategic planning process and support key capacity needs. View Website

This grant will support the 2025 BLKOUT Walls Mural Festival, a ten-day, biannual event led by artists of color to address the lack of equitable access to funded mural and public art opportunities. Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

826michigan – serving more than 3,200 school-age youth in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Detroit – is part of a national network with chapters in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington D.C., all working to inspire confident and skillful young writers with the help of adult volunteers. This grant will support 826michigan’s Detroit expansion plans, including a new location in Eastern Market. View Website

This grant provides start-up capital for the City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture & Entrepreneurship to complete its initial set of projects, including funding for the city’s only COVID-19 artist relief fund.

This grant supports the Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) office at the College for Creative Studies. KAID contributes to the vibrancy of Detroit communities by awarding and supporting the work of artists in the tri-county region, including the delivery of professional development programs and COVID-19 relief funding.

This grant will renew general operating support for Design Core Detroit to position Detroit as a global source of creative talent, to strengthen and promote Detroit's design-driven businesses, and further support the use of inclusive design practices in Detroit to drive inclusive growth. View Website

This grant supports the 2025 Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) program, which provides awards and professional development resources to individual artists across metro Detroit. The grant funds will sustain the program's three signature awards: the Kresge Eminent Artist Award (EA), Kresge Artist Fellowships (KAF), and Gilda Awards (GA). It will also support supplemental activities, such as communication efforts, public celebration events, and professional development resources. View Website

This grant supports the establishment of the Detroit Youth Choir and Performance Arts Company (DYC) Agency Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to ensure the long-term financial stability of the DYC. View Website

This grant supports the "Everybody VS COVID-19" awareness campaign and digital unity festival to increase public awareness in regards to health and safety, elevate the importance of filling out the Census, and provide greater access to City resources in response to the COVID-19 crisis, all while celebrating the arts and investing in local businesses and vendors. View Website

This grant provides project support to Concert of Colors: Detroit Diversity Festival to positively promote Detroit and its local artistic talent while creating professional opportunities for artists of color and accessible arts programming for all. View Website

This two-year grant provides project support to Concert of Colors: Detroit Diversity Festival to positively promote Detroit and its local artistic talent while creating professional opportunities for artists of color and accessible arts programming for all.  Culture Source will serve as the fiscal sponsor for this grant. View Website

This project support grant will support the Detroit Excellence in Youth Arts (DEYA), an arts program fiscally sponsored by Connect Detroit that aims to strengthen, deepen investment in, and equitably expand access to arts programming for all Detroit youth. Building on an assessment of local youth needs in the arts, the program will establish the Detroit Partnership for Arts Education, conduct a youth arts data project and technology hub, and host convenings to develop a citywide framework plan for arts education equity. View Website

This grant seeks to provide general operating support for CultureSource as the key intermediary resourcing both artists and arts and culture organizations in metropolitan Detroit. View Website

This grant supports the Black Arts Fund at CultureSource to provide financial, social and knowledge capital to Black cultural workers and to advance racial equity in Detroit’s arts and culture sector. View Website

This grant seeks to provide funding to CultureSource for the three-year implementation of key programmatic functions of the Detroit Arts Support initiative (DAS). View Website

This grant will support Concert of Colors: Detroit Diversity Festival to positively promote Detroit and its local artistic talent while creating professional opportunities for artists of color and accessible arts programming for all. Culture Source will serve as the fiscal sponsor for this grant. View Website

This grant seeks to provide general operating support for CultureSource as the key intermediary resourcing both artists and arts and culture organizations in metropolitan Detroit. Since 2007, CultureSource has served as an intermediary organization that advances the work of arts and cultural organizations in Southeast Michigan.

The grant supports The Concert of Colors an annual, highly visible community-building event that celebrates the diversity of our region through free, immersive musical, artistic, and spoken word performances and programming, including neighborhood-based events organized by more than 60 cultural organizations. View Website

This grant seeks to support the sustainability and growth of the Detroit Historical Society (DHS), the city’s foremost history-preserving institution. View Website

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will advance its Detroit Strategy through expanded programming at the Marygrove campus and Live6 neighborhood, focusing on early childhood education, K-12 learning, workforce development, and wellness initiatives. The grant supports the DSO's Neighborhood Initiative and Detroit Harmony program, which integrates music into early learning classrooms to enhance literacy and emotional regulation while providing workforce development for educators. View Website