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Grants Awarded

Kresge’s grant database allows you to search for grants awarded since 2009. You can search and filter by program area, focus area, year and location.

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SeaChange Capital Parnters, Inc.

This grant will enable SeaChange, which provides grants, loans, consulting and research for nonprofits facing complex financial and organizational challenges, to expand the Transformational Partnerships Fund (TPF), a $3m pooled fund providing postsecondary institutions flexible support to explore and form long-term strategic partnerships or mergers. The TPF provides referrals, small grants and a confidential space for higher education leaders to rethink how to make their institutions more financially sustainable. View Website

Amount

$500,000

Year

2024

Location

New York, New York

Program

Education

Focus Area

Jolt Initiative

This cross-team grant (Education, Health, and Arts & Culture), aimed towards democracy and student voting, will support the Jolt Initiative to address the underrepresentation of young Texas Latinos in civic engagement. Focused on cultivating youth leadership and community organizing, Jolt's unique approach is rooted in Latino arts and culture and empowers a Latino-led movement through civic participation and storytelling. View Website

Amount

$125,000

Year

2024

Location

Austin, Texas

Program

Arts & Culture, Education, Health

Focus Area

James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc.

This grant will enable the bipartisan Hunt Institute to equip state policymakers and elected leaders with learning opportunities and platforms for cross-state collaboration to improve underrepresented student postsecondary education success. The Institute serves as a state policy information and expertise hub, and it offers evidence-based policy guidance to legislators. View Website

Amount

$150,000

Year

2024

Location

Durham, North Carolina

Program

Education

Focus Area

Association of American Colleges and Universities

This grant, aims to bolster student civic participation and engagement by supporting the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE). Housed at the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), IDHE aims to increase student voting effectiveness, empower student voices, and increase philanthropic support for higher education's role in strengthening democracy. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education

Focus Area

America’s Promise Alliance

This grant will enable 20 college access and success organizations to join America’s Promise Alliance (APA), including some current and potential Kresge grantees. View Website

Amount

$450,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education

Focus Area

Project on Predatory Student Lending Inc.

The Project on Predatory Student Lending will use this grant to expose the widespread deceitful practices of using third-party, for-profit Online Predatory Managers (OPMs). View Website

Amount

$275,000

Year

2023

Location

Boston, MA

Program

Education

Focus Area

Fund for the City of New York

This grant will enable the Presidents’ Alliance for Higher Education and Immigration to improve opportunities and support for undocumented students. The Alliance will educate higher education leaders and key stakeholders about the challenges undocumented students face to access higher education. This grant will also help increase campus engagement among Texas higher education presidents and stakeholders to share better resources and strategies to support undocumented students. View Website

Amount

$425,000

Year

2023

Location

Program

Focus Area

Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success

Civic Nation

This grant will enable Civic Nation to help ensure that millions of Americans in traditionally hard-to-reach communities learn about and take advantage of federal student debt relief programs. View Website

Amount

$500,000

Year

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education

Focus Area

Urban Pathways to College

Oakland University

Through the Center for Civic Engagement and the College of Education, Oakland University will host a two-day Teaching Race in America conference from August 8-9, 2023. View Website

Amount

$30,000

Year

2023

Location

Rochester, Michigan

Program

Detroit, Education

Focus Area

American Public Health Association Inc.

This grant will support the Center for Climate, Health, and Equity at the American Public Health Association in building the capacity of public health professionals to partner with community-based constituents to drive equitable climate action through strategic communications training, research, and non-partisan policy development. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education, Health

Focus Area

Central Valley Community Foundation

Kresge support will build on CVCF’s capacity to provide technical assistance, facilitation, data analysis, and more for the community-based organizations leading DRIVE(Developing the Region's Inclusive and Vibrant Economy) initiatives. View Website

Amount

$1,050,000

Year

2023

Location

Fresno, California

Program

American Cities, Education

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

University of South Florida Foundation

This grant will support the Florida College Access Network (FCAN) in strengthening its advocacy and convening capacity to connect policymakers with stakeholders from different sectors to improve Florida’s postsecondary pathways. View Website

Amount

$175,000

Year

2023

Location

Tampa, Fla.

Program

Education

Focus Area

Urban Pathways to College

Ithaka Harbors, Inc.

This grant will enable Ithaka to expand its stranded credits “clearinghouse,” which it piloted successfully in the Akron, OH, region.   View Website

Amount

$250,000

Year

2023

Location

New York, New York

Program

Education

Focus Area

Urban Pathways to College

National League of Cities Institute Inc.

The National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education and Families will help mayors, municipal leaders and their senior city staff foster cross-sector partnerships to identify the strategies, messages and incentives that can connect adults with some college but no degree to opportunities to complete a credential. View Website

Amount

$625,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education

Focus Area

Aligning and Strengthening the UHEE

Get Schooled Foundation

This grant will allow Detroit youth to access personalized youth-friendly, research-based, digital college access content via popular social media channels: text, TikTok, Kahoot!, YouTube, and a mobile-first website. Get Schooled will work with Detroit College Access Network (DCAN) and Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) to reach Detroit juniors and seniors with FAFSA support, scholarship and college essay support, and other college-going content to increase college enrollment among Detroit seniors. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

New York, New York

Program

Education

Focus Area

Urban Pathways to College

Veterans Education Success Inc.

This grant will enable Veterans Education Success (VES), a nonprofit and nonpartisan advocacy organization, to conduct policy-relevant research, convene policymakers and college leaders, and support military-affiliated students to engage their congressional representatives, federal agencies, and national media on how to better improve policies and supports for student veterans. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education

Focus Area

New America Foundation

This grant will enable New America to undertake two research projects to combat pandemic-related declines in community college enrollment. The first will conduct case studies to profile three community colleges that have weathered enrollment declines better than the average college or have reversed their declines. The second will conduct a nationally representative survey of current community college students and stopped-out students to develop policy recommendations supporting students’ re-enrollment. View Website

Amount

$225,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education

Focus Area

Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success

PolicyLink

This operating grant supports PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity, to work with federal, state and local partners to advance its Winning on Equity campaign and deliver results for the 100 million economically insecure people in the United States. View Website

Amount

$2,250,000

Year

2023

Location

Oakland, California

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, Human Services, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

Strada Collaborative, Inc.

This grant will enable InsideTrack to launch California Reconnect to help California adults with some college but no degree to complete their credentials.  InsideTrack will partner with two Kresge grantees, the Institute for Higher Education Policy and California Competes, to conduct targeted outreach to 13,000 stopped-out students and provide advising and coaching to support their re-enrollment at 30 colleges and universities in the Inland Empire, South San Joaquin Valley (Fresno), and Sacramento. View Website

Amount

$500,000

Year

2023

Location

Indianapolis, IN

Program

Education

Focus Area

Urban Pathways to College

iMentor

This grant will enable iMentor to design, implement, and refine a national strategy based on its successful New York City region model to institutionalize how it brings higher education partners into its postsecondary framework. This model will allow the organization to build new revenue-generating models with a placed-based focus by providing tech-forward tailored mentoring experiences for colleges to improve college-going and completion rates for first-generation and students of color. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

New York, New York

Program

Education

Focus Area

Urban Pathways to College

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