Amplify Fund This grant to the Amplify Fund will support primarily BIPOC-led organizations in seven states and Puerto Rico that are advocating for equitable community development outcomes. Amplify operates differently than many other funder collaboratives in that major strategic and governance decisions are made primarily by the 55 field partners in the eight places and regions (rather than funders) to ensure that funding decisions authentically represent community priorities. Fiscal Sponsor: Neighborhood Funders Group View Website Amount $2,000,000 Year 2022 Location Oakland, CA Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions, Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Marygrove Conservancy 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 Amount $500,000 Year 2022 Location Detroit, Mich. Program Arts & Culture, Detroit Focus Area Arts and Culture Ecosystem, Transformative Project/Marygrove
The Highland Project This cross-team grant among the Detroit, Arts & Culture and American Cities programs will help build and sustain a leadership pipeline of Black women by providing leadership training, capital investments, and network support to Black women leaders seeking to advance educational, economic and social equity in places such as Maryland, Mississippi, New Orleans, Detroit and East Grand Rapids. View Website Amount $600,000 Year 2022 Location New York, NY Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Human Services Focus Area
ThirdSpace Action Lab LLC This expenditure responsibility grant supports ThirdSpace Action Lab in providing coordination, facilitation, and analysis for the team's Building And Supporting Equitable Development and Creative Practice initiatives over the next two years. View Website Amount $440,000 Year 2022 Location Cleveland, OH Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Big We Foundation This grant supports the Big We Foundation’s Southern Shift Initiative, which applies creative practices to resident organizing, restorative community development and wealth building programs in Memphis. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2022 Location Memphis, TN Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Center for Community Progress This cross-team project grant supports the Center for Community Progress to increase equitable land and housing policy in Detroit and the state of Michigan, and integrate Creative Placemaking practices into their resident engagement programs. Kresge funds will support project personnel, resident fellowships and community-engagement programs. View Website Amount $800,000 Year 2022 Location Flint, Mich. Program Arts & Culture, Detroit Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
SOURCE Studio, Inc. This general operating grant will support Source Studio’s Creative Placemaking activities and its participation in Kresge’s Creative Practice cohort. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2022 Location Burnsville, NC Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Community Power Collective This general operating grant supports the Community Power Collective in building power among low-income tenants and workers in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles through cross-sector, community-based creative placemaking processes that address health equity, housing, and economic injustice. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2022 Location Brooklyn, CA Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
University of Orange This renews a grant to support the University of Orange, a free school of restoration urbanism, and its mission to build the collective capacity for people to create more equitable cities and strengthen the restoration of social bonds and capital. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2022 Location Orange, New Jersey Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Jolt Initiative This joint grant between Education and Arts & Culture will support the Jolt Initiative, a multi-issue civic-engagement organization working to increase the voting power of young Latinx people in Texas by encouraging high school seniors and college students to develop content that presents and reimagines their cultural heritage. View Website Amount $200,000 Year 2022 Location Austin, Texas Program Arts & Culture, Education Focus Area
The Guild Collective This grant supported by the Arts & Culture and Health programs will enable The Guild to expand their Community Stewardship Trust (CST) model of redevelopment in Southwest Atlanta to preserve housing affordability and the rich cultural identity of historically Black neighborhoods. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2022 Location Decatur, GA Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems, Community Investment for Health Equity
Junebug Productions This general operating grant will support Junebug Production’s use of performing arts and community story-telling as an organizing tool to address inequitable conditions in communities throughout New Orleans. It will also enable Junebug's participation in Kresge’s Creative Practice cohort. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2022 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
National Public Housing Museum This general operating grant will support the National Public Housing Museum's Creative Placemaking activities and its participation in Kresge's Creative Practice cohort, using art, oral history and material culture to amplify public housing residents' voices and advance affordable housing policies. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2022 Location Chicago, Illinois Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Design Impact This general operating grant supports Design Impact's mission to advance racial and equitable development approaches in Cincinnati neighborhoods through community-engaged design. Kresge funds will support staffing, programs and stipends for resident leaders to co-design projects. View Website Amount $300,000. Year 2022 Location Cincinnati, Ohio Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Colloqate Design This general operating grant supports Colloqate Design's mission to organize, advocate, and design for racial, social, and cultural equity. Kresge funds will support staff, operations, and programming that center community voice and build power through the design of civic, social and cultural spaces. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2022 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History This general operating grant will support the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History’s Creative Placemaking activities and its participation in Kresge’s Creative Practice cohort. The Center’s mission is to honor, renew and build community in Chapel Hill’s historically Black Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods. View Website Amount $300,000.00 Year 2021 Location Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Harness This project grant will support Harness, a community of artists, activists, and movement leaders using the power of art and storytelling to imagine and co-create a more equitable world, to lead the Culture Surge initiative. View Website Amount $400,000.00 Year 2021 Location Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Rebuild Foundation This general operating grant will support the Rebuild Foundation’s Creative Placemaking activities and its participation in Kresge’s Creative Practice cohort. The Rebuild Foundation's mission is to catalyze neighborhood revitalization through artistic practices, individual empowerment and community engagement. View Website Amount $300,000.00 Year 2021 Location Chicago, Illinois Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience This general operating grant will support the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific’s Creative Placemaking activities and its participation in Kresge’s Creative Practice cohort. The mission of the Museum is to engage residents and the larger community with its history, art and cultures to advance racial and social equity within Seattle’s historic Chinatown and International District. View Website Amount $300,000.00 Year 2021 Location Seattle, Washington Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Northend Christian Community Development Corp. This two-year general operating grant will support Northend Christian Community Development Corporation’s (Northend Christian CDC’s) Creative Placemaking activities and participation in Kresge’s Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) learning community. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2021 Location Detroit, MI Program American Cities, Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field