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

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

This grant supports Years 14 and 15 of the Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) program as well as professional development for Year 14 Fellows. View Website

This grant supports the restoration of the historic Negro League baseball stadium in Hamtramck as a cultural asset and recreation site for metro Detroiters. The restored stadium, along with the larger recreation district and adjoined greenway, will transform mostly underutilized and vacant land into a safe and accessible place to gather, create and be active together while supporting cultural preservation, positive public health outcomes, economic opportunity, and increased quality of life. Michigan Municipal League Foundation will serve as the fiscal sponsor for this grant. View Website

This Detroit-Arts team grant provides project support for the Marygrove Conservancy to: 1) Expand its community engagement capacity; 2) Expand neighborhood and corridor beautification efforts in partnership with the Live6 Alliance; 3) Continue legacy arts and cultural programming ; and 4) Launch the Center for Black Entrepreneurial Excellence. View Website

This grant provides support for arts and community programming, and home and business repair grants in Midtown and New Center, including support for legacy, Black-owned businesses in the W. Grand Blvd.-Holden corridor. View Website

The Motown Historical Museum, founded in 1985, is an iconic tourist destination for local, national and international visitors that preserves a vital part of Detroit's musical and cultural history. This grant will build the capacity of Motown Historical Museum to ensure the success of its capital campaign and facility expansion plans. View Website

Founded in 1977 and based in Manhattan, the New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas, and is respected internationally for the global scope of its curatorial program. This grant supports IDEAS CITY Detroit, a five-day conference focused on the reinvention of cities through arts, culture, design, and architecture, taking place in April 2017 in Detroit. View Website

This grant will provide project support for the Plowshares Theatre Company (PTC) to develop “Hastings Street,” an original theatrical production focused on the history and cultural narrative(s) of Detroit’s historic Black Bottom neighborhood, the predominately African-American community forcibly displaced through urban renewal policies clearing land that would become Lafayette Park and I-375. View Website