This grant provides project support to the City of Detroit to launch its Office of Early Learning (OEL). OEL will contribute to an increase in high-quality early childhood seats in Detroit and strengthen supports for early childhood providers through provider recruitment and quality coaching, enrollment supports, facilities support, workforce and talent pipelines, and business supports. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP) for the development and delivery of programs designed to create a vibrant, world-class urban core in Downtown Detroit. View Website

This project grant will allow Doing Development Differently Detroit to provide technical assistance to three identified pilot Community Investment Trust (CIT) projects, as well as explore various CIT scenarios and develop a CIT playbook tailored to Detroit. View Website

This grant provides project support to EarlyWorks to facilitate and provide shared marketing assistance to a network of organizations implementing child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. EarlyWorks will convene and facilitate shared learning across this network of six grantees and document learnings to identify lessons to inform the scalability of this initiative. View Website

This grant will sponsor the opening gala for House 330, a multi-use community hub to support families and children in the I PROMISE Program with job training and recreational space. This grant sponsorship will also support the I PROMISE Program to provide technical assistance to advance strategic planning for the Marygrove P-20 Partnership. 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 grant will sponsor Elevating Student Voices, a student-led conference on civic education and democratic public life for 100 high-school students from Genesee, Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne counties. The conference is a collaboration between the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State Law School, the Cares Mentoring Network, Detroit Public Schools Community District, Novi Community Schools, West Bloomfield High School, and the Bentley Community School District. View Website

This grant provides project support to Keep Growing Detroit (KGD) to improve health, nutrition and quality of life for young children in Detroit’s neighborhoods through engagement with early childhood centers. Kresge support will enable KGD to partner with early childhood centers to improve their facilities with access to gardens and outdoor spaces; provide one-stop access to nutritional programming and healthy foods through early childhood centers; directly support families to access healthy foods through home-based gardens and discounted food boxes; and engage families in neighborhoods through community events promoting healthy living practices. View Website

This grant will sponsor the 2023 International Women’s Forum World Leadership Conference to be held in Detroit October 4-6. View Website

This project grant will support The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ) in working with residents in the Jefferson-Chalmers area to find sustainable solutions and assistance to correct the raw sewage and flooding issues they experience due to infrastructure failure and climate. This work will use a resident-centered approach to assessing past infrastructure challenges and build relationships across local, state, and federal agencies to survey relevant funding through the Infrastructure Bill and other initiatives to pay for repairs. View Website

This grant supports the next phase of a partnership with Ideas42 focused on dismantling harmful Detroit narratives and adding more local partners, informed by behavioral science expertise, to develop campaign efforts, rigorously measure progress against damaging narratives, and disseminate findings for field building in other places. View Website

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

This grant provides project support to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to facilitate the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition, which coordinates tax preparation providers, community-based outreach partners and civic and corporate leaders to advance economic mobility for Detroiters by ensuring access to benefits available through federal and state tax filings. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Accounting Aid Society (AAS) to expand tax preparation capacity in Detroit’s neighborhoods as part of the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition. Kresge funding will ensure that non-filers who typically do not file taxes but are eligible for public benefits through the tax system can fully benefit from public resources by supporting AAS to extend tax prep capacity beyond the traditional tax season and to expand into neighborhood sites to provide tax prep services in locations most proximate to residents. View Website

This grant provides project support to Living Arts as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Living Arts will coordinate and implement programming outside the Michigan Welcome Center in Mexicantown that advances culture, creativity and social connectivity among children and families in Southwest Detroit through visual and performing arts workshops and performances focused on engaging children in culturally appropriate art forms. View Website

This grant supports Brilliant Detroit as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Brilliant Detroit will coordinate and implement programming in neighborhood spaces surrounding its Southwest Detroit center that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families by offering daily programming focused on literacy, health, family basic needs and community-building. View Website

This grant supports the Bailey Park Project as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Bailey Park Project will coordinate and implement programming at Bailey Park that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families in Detroit’s McDougall-Hunt community through implementing recreational opportunities focused on encouraging physical activity and combatting sedentary lifestyles, art and music programs aimed at increasing social interaction and community-building, and family play opportunities focused on whole family activities for children and their caregivers to spend time together. View Website

This grant provides project support to Clark Park Coalition (CPC) as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. CPC will coordinate and implement programming in Southwest Detroit’s Clark Park that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families through sports and recreational programming and staffing to provide access to the park’s newly installed play features. View Website

This grant provides project support to Global Detroit as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Global Detroit will coordinate and implement community-designed programming at Lasky Recreation Center that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families in Detroit’s East Davison Village and Banglatown neighborhoods through implementing a community-led-programming development process that engages Black, Yemeni, and Bangladeshi residents and youth to co-create a large project and four-to-six supplemental activities to activate Lasky and bring families of all backgrounds together through their Social Cohesion initiative. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Live6 Alliance in partnership with the Ella Fitzgerald Park Conservancy as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child- and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. The Conservancy will coordinate and implement programming at Ella Fitzgerald Park that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families in Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood through implementing a monthly, thematic programming series of community-developed “Activity Days” that use food, music, movie nights, and fitness activities to bring people of different socioeconomic, racial and age groups together. View Website