This cross-team grant (Education, Health, and Arts & Culture), aimed towards democracy and student voting, will support the Jolt Initiative to address the underrepresentation of young Texas Latinos in civic engagement. Focused on cultivating youth leadership and community organizing, Jolt's unique approach is rooted in Latino arts and culture and empowers a Latino-led movement through civic participation and storytelling. View Website

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

This general operating grant will support CatchLight’s mission to combine the practices of art, journalism and social justice to nurture and grow a thriving visual ecosystem. CatchLight will expand and strengthen collaborations between artists, community-based organizations and newsrooms nationwide, focusing on lifting authentic resident narratives about economic inequality. Kresge funds will specifically support staffing, direct funding of visual artists and resources for community outreach. View Website

This project grant supports the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America) to expand its cultural community development and health equity initiatives. Kresge funds will support training, convenings, expanding and merging its cultural community development and health equity initiatives – the Community Leadership Institute and Health Equity Lab, which will be available to its network of over 250 local community development partners. View Website

This project grant supports the Constellations Culture Change Fund & Initiative, a $13M effort to connect and resource a network of diverse artists, culture bearers, grassroots cultural strategy organizations and philanthropic partners working at the intersections of art, culture and social justice. View Website

This operating grant supports Bold Futures’ mission and work with mission-aligned artists and cultural workers to uplift resident voices, build community power, and shift harmful narratives on reproductive health, criminal justice reform, and youth development issues. View Website

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

This general operating grant supports Define American's mission. It enables it to increase immigrant artists' visibility, thus contributing to a more just and equitable arts and culture sector. Its fellowship program resources immigrant artists working to dismantle harmful stereotypes by bringing attention to the intersections of immigration, race, gender and acceptance. View Website

This operating grant supports the Center for Cultural Power to leverage the power of culture to create a more equitable and healthy future. Through its artist leadership, intersectional storytelling and field-building programs, the Center is resourcing the creation of community-rooted stories that lead to collective action focusing on racial, gender, health and climate justice. View Website

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

This grant supports the Black Trans Fund (BTF) to strengthen the national infrastructure of trans-led organizing and the role of trans leadership in the modern Racial Justice movement. This grant will support a cohort of anchoring organizations, provide capacity-building opportunities to place-based organizations, and seed a fellowship program for black trans-cultural organizers. View Website

This general operating grant supports the Wing Luke Memorial Foundation (the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience) to center the history, cultural expression, and arts of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities and to frame their stories and shape community-driven approaches to equitable development and advance racial and social equity. View Website

This general operating grant renews support to Richmond Community-Owned Development Enterprise (Richmond Land) in Richmond, CA, to leverage cultural strategies and expand resident leadership through canvassing and storytelling campaigns around housing access and displacement mitigation, such as its Building Power Fellowship — an eight-month participatory action research and creative initiative.

This general operating grant supports the Native American Community Development Institute's mission and the integration of civic engagement, community organizing, community development and indigenous arts and culture in Minneapolis, MN, through supporting Native artists, authors and culture bearers at its All My Relations Art gallery, Four Sisters Farmers Market and Urban Farm and Making Voting a Tradition, a civic engagement and voter registration program. View Website

This general operating grant supports the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center's mission to build connections between people and cultures through inclusive programs that continue living traditions and nurture the next generation of artists, culture-bearers and thinkers, such as the Sustainable Little Tokyo Initiative — a collaborative neighborhood-generated framework dedicated to environmental, economic and cultural sustainability. View Website

This general operating grant supports the Deep Center's mission and its youth and community development model that empowers young people in Savannah, GA, through creative writing, storytelling and literacy programs, participatory action research projects and community-informed policy briefs to thrive as learners, community leaders and agents of change. View Website

This general operating grant supports the Community Arts Stabilization Trust to ensure long-term, stable spaces for artists and arts organizations in the Bay Area. Specifically, it helps arts organizations build pathways to ownership, enables artists to secure long-term affordable leases, and creates dedicated spaces for cultural connection and exchange. View Website

This general operating grant supports Creative Reaction Lab's mission to train Black and Latine youth in St. Louis and the US in equitable community-engaged design, organizing, and project implementation skills and provide paid opportunities through its Seeds of Power Fellowships to promote youth as leaders in prototyping creative solutions to local issues in their communities. View Website

This general operating grant supports the Marian Cheek Jackson Center to expand its community preservation and anti-displacement strategies in Chapel Hill, NC, such as working with artists and community organizers on housing justice and preservation programs that uplift and document the neighborhood’s civil rights history and celebrate and connect new and long-term residents. View Website

This general operating grant will support Junebug Productions, a New Orleans-based theater and social justice organization, to further expand its cultural and creative programs across the US, such as the Story Circle process and methodology, which combines performance and community story-collecting to engage and empower citizens to organize around community issues ranging from health disparities to housing instability. View Website