This grant provides support for the 40th Rededication and Remembrance for Vincent Chin — a four-day commemoration to honor Chin’s legacy, highlight the Asian American civil rights movement, and spark renewed dialogue around solidarity organizing in Detroit and across the country. Among other things, the commemoration will include a relaunch of the newly restored “Who Killed Vincent Chin” documentary, community panels that both reflect back and look forward on the continuum of AAPI activism, a graveside memorial, as well as a short film series airing on DPTV throughout 2022. View Website

This joint grant between the Detroit and Human Services teams provides project support to Detroit Champions of Hope to continue serving as the lead agency in implementing the parent and family engagement and advocacy strategy of the Hope Starts Here framework. 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 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

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 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

This joint grant between the Education and Detroit teams will enable Fair Elections Center, a national, nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization, to strengthen campus voter registration, education, and turnout programs at an expanded number of campuses, including a number in Michigan and several HBCUs. View Website

This grant provides project support for the Detroit office of In Our Backyards (ioby), a national organization that uses a crowd-resourcing platform to support community-led projects. ioby provides training, resources and coaching to grow the capacity of community leaders in executing small-scale projects that create positive change in their neighborhoods. View Website

This grant provides ARISE Detroit! with three years of general operating support. Among other efforts, ARISE holds a Neighborhoods Day each summer to unite Detroit neighborhoods through community service and community improvement projects in more than 100 neighborhoods across the city. View Website

This grant provides funding to the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan's statewide philanthropic fund to to support the critical resettlement needs for at least 1,600 Afghan refugees whom Michigan has been approved to receive. View Website

Community Connections will 1) award 10-15 small grants to support neighborhood-based, child-centered placemaking projects through a community-led application and review process; 2) provide capacity building support to small, neighborhood-based groups implementing these projects; and 3) communicate the program's impact. View Website

This grant will enable the Southeast Michigan Health Association to design Community Health Workers resource hubs and job placement services — enabling paraprofessionals to facilitate access to health and human services within Detroit neighborhoods and across the region by offering continuing education, workforce development and job placement. View Website

This grant will enable Southwest Solutions - under the leadership of a new CEO - to hire a seasoned executive who will coordinate engagement, communications, and development activities in support of the organization's new strategic focus on improving equity in health, housing, and wealth for Detroiters through integrated service delivery. View Website

This grant provides continued project support for the second round of Invest Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund (SNF) for equitable and inclusive revitalization efforts in Detroit’s neighborhoods. 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

This grant provides project support to the University of Detroit Mercy’s School of Architecture and Community Development, in partnership with the Live6 Alliance, to facilitate and implement a placemaking strategy for Detroit’s Livernois-McNichols District. View Website

This grant provides an operating subsidy to Starfish Family Services for the ongoing operations of the Marygrove Early Education Center, enabling the Center to continue its mixed-revenue model to ensure socioeconomic diversity, to implement leading-edge program design, and expand its whole-child-, whole-family-based Healthy Families Center. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy to maintain and operate the Marygrove campus and to support the Conservancy’s day-to-day operations, including facility maintenance, staffing, security, utilities, and other functions . View Website

This expenditure responsibility grant will fund U3 Advisors (U3A) to provide strategic consultation and technical support for the ongoing implementation of the Marygrove Transformation Project and to build the long-term capacity of the Live6 Alliance. View Website

This grant provides operating support to Non-Profit Enterprise at Work, one of five nonprofits that form a collaborative committed to strengthening nonprofit sector capacity in Detroit. View Website