This grant provides project support to Michigan Nonprofit Association for the work of a collaborative of five intermediaries to address the needs of Southeast Michigan nonprofits as they face new and amplified challenges as a result of the COVID pandemic. Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) is a statewide membership organization with a mission to serve nonprofits to advance their missions.  View Website

This grant supports Tools for Hope, an innovative series of free virtual workshops to support early childhood education professionals as they face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as programming to highlight the work of Detroit’s artists and arts organizations to assist the recovery of the arts sector. View Website

This joint grant from the Arts & Culture and Detroit Programs provides start-up capital for the City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture & Entrepreneurship to complete its initial set of projects, including funding for the city’s only COVID-19 artist relief fund. View Website

Brightmoor Alliance and Sidewalk Festival for the Performing Arts will pair artists with community members to design and implement nature-based projects and public performances in Eliza Howell Park. View Website

Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation will plan for the development of a neighborhood-based center for Southwest Detroit residents to access housing resources and provide job training opportunities in housing and industrial trades for local at-risk youth. View Website

Eastside Community Network will collaborate with partners to identify a large swath of city-owned vacant land and engage nearby residents to explore green infrastructure options as an alternative to conventional maintenance. View Website

EcoWorks will support a student-led effort of the Detroit Institute of Technology at Cody High School to plan a community space and park at a vacant lot across the street from the school. View Website

Focus: HOPE will study the feasibility of redeveloping a blighted residential and commercial site on West Davison Avenue as a live/work co-op space for entrepreneurs. View Website

Global Detroit will engage the Banglatown community in neighborhood planning, including, outreach efforts and community meetings. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, the Yunion will be plan and implement a community hub and collaborative space focused on utilizing art as healing through the development of a state of the art performing arts studio and computer lab in the Hope Village neighborhood. The Yunion's mission is to counter negative cultural influences that misdirect the lives of youth by raising awareness and strengthening families through innovative prevention programming, education, parental engagement, mentoring, and counseling. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Southwest Detroit Business Association, Inc. will work with local property owners to plan, create and support business-ready, first-floor commercial spaces tailored to Southwest Detroit’s unique culture, infrastructure, businesses and community needs. The coalition of businesses and community interests is committed to facilitating the continuation and enhancement of a stable, economically healthy southwest Detroit. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Great Communities Now will plan and implement a community-engaged and designed corridor and neighborhood improvement plan along the Whitter corridor in the Denby neighborhood.

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Bagley Community Council will transform two vacant lots into a perennial flower garden to provide accessible green space through their Bagley Blooms project in the Bagley neighborhood. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, North End Woodward Community Land Trust will plan and implement the development of the American Riad that will utilize public art and creative architecture to form a model of development that links diverse culture, and expands sustainable, resilient communities in the North End neighborhood. North End Woodward Community Land Trust has worked in North End of Detroit since 2010, through providing affordable housing, food bank, equitable internet, and youth job training. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Heritage Works will design and create a cultural community center and accompanying mural to foster a resilience hub in North Corktown. The cultural-arts organization supports the creative, educational and vocational development of children and families by providing programs in cultural enrichment, performance and visual arts, health and wellness and academic and professional skills. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, will implement a design and landscape plan created with an earlier KIP:D grant for alley activation and to repurpose vacant lots into an environmentally sustainable, multigenerational green space for neighborhood residents. View Website

Under this grant from Round 6 of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Ruth Ellis Center will build a public café space within its supportive housing complex. The café will provide job training for LGBTQ+ youth. This follows an earlier KIP:D planning grant. The Ruth Ellis Center (REC) has a mission to provide short and long-term residential safe space and support services for runaway, homeless, and at-risk lesbian, gay, bi-attractional, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in Metro Detroit. View Website

Black Family Development Inc. will transform groups of vacant lots in the Osborn neighborhood using Detroit Future City’s “Field Guide to Working with Lots.” The guide includes plans for low-maintenance lawns, maple tree groves, barriers to deter illegal dumping and other landscape improvements. View Website

Under this grant in the sixth round of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Tiff Massey Studios will engage in planning activities to develop a creative community platform to connect Bagley neighborhood in Northwest Detroit resources, opportunities, and educational support to creative placemaking opportunities for youth. View Website

Under this grant in the sixth round of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, the State Fairgrounds Development Coalition will engage community in activities to understand and map community assets as well as mobilize community around land use, development and revitalization opportunities. View Website