This grant provides general operating support to Raheem to make available its alternative dispatching software serving to a broader network of community-based crisis response organizations, including health practitioners, mobile crisis teams, social service providers, and grassroots advocates, including several Detroit-based grantees. View Website

This will fund Elevate to lead staffing, planning, and coordination between community organizations and city agencies in developing a network of three resilience hubs on the flood-prone east side of Detroit. Each hub will develop upgraded building systems (e.g. solar power with battery storage and green stormwater infrastructure) available to residents during emergencies and recovery from emergencies View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Detroit Children’s Fund (DCF) for the three-year implementation of key programs to grow the number of quality schools in Detroit and provide executive leadership coaching for the new leadership team at the School at Marygrove. DCF was launched in 2016, as an independent initiative of the Skillman Foundation to provide funding for educational transformation in Detroit through: 1) training and developing school leaders; 2) recruiting and coaching successful teachers; and 3) supporting citywide educational initiatives. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) to provide technical assistance to advance strategic planning for the Marygrove P-20 Partnership. HCZ is a national leader in place-based education through their child and family-centered neighborhood approach in central Harlem that connects cradle-to-career education with neighborhood-based wraparound supports. Over the course of the next year, HCZ will conduct two strategic planning workshops and site visits for the Marygrove P-20 partners to learn from best practices and to deploy those on the Marygrove campus. View Website

This grant will enable Future Good, the national program partner for the Racial Justice United network, to focus specifically on cross-city relationship-building within the network by launching and facilitating up to a dozen communities of practice in Kresge core cities. View Website

This grant contributes to the pooled public (Medicaid)/private/philanthropic fund for Michigan’s TRAILS initiative, which supports school-based mental health, well-being and educational success. Kresge’s contribution will be directed towards the Detroit Public Schools Community District., including helping the district offset unexpected expenditures for mental health during the pandemic. Funds will also be used to help the district to offset unexpected expenditures incurred after providing needed supports to students and families at the height of the pandemic. Fiscal sponsor is the Tides Foundation. View Website

This grant supports the the 2023 BLKOUT Walls Mural Festival, a 10-day event produced by BIPOC curators that features 20 murals within Detroit’s North End neighborhood and the City of Highland Park. Kresge support will contribute to the travel, lodging, and honorariums for participating artists. View Website

This grant provides project support to Policy Equity Group (PEG) to advance Detroit early childhood (ECE) priorities through two major streams of work. First, PEG will partner with the University of Michigan’s Ford School to support the State of Michigan to develop a budget and implementation plan for its new, signature Universal Pre-K initiative. Second, PEG will support Kresge and its partners in Detroit to advance early childhood priorities through policy engagement, including through technical assistance, strengthening connectivity between efforts in Detroit and state and federal policymakers, and documenting best practices from early childhood investments in Detroit. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Marygrove Conservancy to design and implement several major projects, including : 1) Four major annual community events to activate the Marygrove campus as a neighborhood hub; 2) Community engagement capacity in support of the campus and P-20 partnership; 3) Neighborhood and corridor beautification efforts in partnership with the Live6 Alliance; and 4) Legacy arts and cultural programming on the Marygrove campus. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Detroit Regional CEO Group, a private collaboration of local executives - including Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson - committed to transformational projects that improve regional prosperity. 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.

Presbyterian Villages of Michigan and Wallick Communities are co-developing the Dr. Violet T. Lewis Village project. This adaptive reuse project will provide 32 new units of quality affordable housing and save a neighborhood landmark from destruction. The project is located in Northwest Detroit, using buildings from the former Lewis College of Business (the first historically black college in Michigan). The senior housing community will be named after the college’s founder, Dr. Violet T. Lewis. View Website

This grant supports the Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF) to implement several key initiatives that advance CMF’s support for nonprofit and philanthropic leadership and coordination. Among those initiatives: 1) Continue providing facilitation and fiscal sponsorship support for the Southeast Michigan Early Childhood Funders Collaborative; 2) Strengthen philanthropic partnerships with the Governor’s Office through the Office of Foundation Liaison; 3) Launch an innovative public-private partnership to equitably distribute federal funds to support public space expansion statewide. View Website

The Women's Entrepreneurial Initiative, run by the Michigan Women's Foundation, provides both micro-loans and technical assistance to women entrepreneurs. This grant will enable them to hire a technical assistance coordinator, bring on a communications specialist, and extend their "Bridging the Digital Divide" program to one Detroit neighborhood annually. View Website

Vanguard has a 29-year track record of supporting community development in Detroit's North End. This grant provides both operating and facilities maintenance support and support for the completion of a five-year strategic plan. View Website

Data Driven Detroit will continue its updating and expansion of the Housing Information Portal and Neighborhood Vitality Index, two important pieces of Detroit's evolving neighborhood data infrastructure that are of particular value to the work of community development organizations. D3 will also provide support to Kresge's Detroit Program for mapping and data interpretation. View Website

This project grant will support Detroit Horse Power (DHP) to reactivate a demolished school site in Detroit’s Hope Village neighborhood by building the largest urban equestrian center in the country that will scale DHP’s impactful skill-building programs for Detroit youth in alignment with residents’ goals for their community’s future. View Website

This grant will fund the Kresge Education Fund (the Fund), a donor advised fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, which will  support operating funding on the Marygrove campus to support facility maintenance, security, minor facility upgrades, event management and administrative support for the campus. View Website

This grant provides operating support to Allied Media Projects in order to bolster Detroit’s racial justice infrastructure by expanding their capacity to provide operational support to grassroots organizations across the city. Among other things, funds from this grant will be used to scale up their fiscal sponsorship capacity to onboard 20 new Detroit-based grassroots organizations, strengthen a platform for Detroit thought leadership through their speaker series program, and convene the Allied Media Conference in 2024. View Website

The Jazz Development Workshop, a Black music conservatory established in 1979 to promote and advance jazz education and mentorship, will produce a documentary film project chronicling the life and career of Marcus Belgrave, the 2009 Kresge Eminent Artist and Detroit's Jazz Master Laureate. Kresge will support pre- and post-production.