Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc. This grant will provide support to the Health Affairs journal (Health Affairs) in its efforts to be more intentional about the content it publishes on health equity and the multiple factors that impact it, such as discrimination, workforce diversity, health disparities, and the social determinants of health. View Website Amount $900,000 Year 2024 Location Millwood, Va. Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition This grant will support the Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition, a membership organization that develops and implements equitable strategies to achieve zero carbon emissions from the Midwest building sector by 2050. The organization convenes stakeholders and allies to advance a coordinated, regional strategy that centers racial and economic equity. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2024 Location 2510 Telegraph Road Suite L, Unit 228, Bloomfield Township, MI 48302 Program Environment Focus Area
EcoAdapt This grant supports the 2024 National Adaptation Forum, which is the premier conference for climate change adaptation knowledge exchange and field building. Kresge funds will support the hosting of the event and subsidize travel and registration costs for speakers and participants from underrepresented groups. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2024 Location Bainbridge Island, Washington Program Environment Focus Area
Inclusiv This grant will enable Inclusiv and its Puerto Rican partner to organize, develop and submit a collective application for $6 million in Mitigation Community Development Block Grant funding to fund up to 30 resiliency centers and use learnings to inform a collective response to a request for information from the Department of Energy about how best to deploy $1 billion set aside for roof-top and microgrid solar in Puerto Rico. View Website Amount $70,000 Year 2023 Location New York, New York Program Environment, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Field Building
Greenprint Partners This grant will enable Greenprint Partners to invest in staff development as it grows from 10 to 20 full-time employees in 2023. View Website Amount $51,000 Year 2023 Location Chicago, Illinois Program Environment, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Field Building
Urban Sustainability Directors Network This grant will provide general operating support for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), the primary network through which local government sustainability practitioners access resources and collaborate to advance their work. View Website Amount $850,000 Year 2023 Location Port Washington, Wisconsin Program Environment Focus Area Field Building
Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange This grant enables the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange to share knowledge and advance advocacy in addressing urban flooding through strengthened green stormwater infrastructure policies and practices. The Exchange will teach, convene and increase the capacity of municipal leaders to integrate equity into municipal green stormwater initiatives, support cross-city project collaborations, and build the membership’s community engagement capacity. View Website Amount $440,000 Year 2023 Location Towson, MD Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems
Green Leadership Trust The Green Leadership Trust supports BIPOC leaders who serve on the boards of environmental and climate nonprofit organizations, assisting them as advocates for diversity, equity, justice, and inclusion measures within their organizations and in their policy positions and connecting them to peer-learning networks. View Website Amount $200,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Environment Focus Area Field Building
The Water Hub The grant will also provide communications training to Kresge’s Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems grant partners and the broader water field. View Website Amount $80.000 Year 2023 Location Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy This grant will enable the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) to advance equitable clean energy policies, programs, and projects in cities across the U.S. ACEEE will support local governments and community-based organizations to design and implement comprehensive equity-driven approaches to clean energy, with a focus on housing. View Website Amount $400,000 Year Location Washington, D.C. Program Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems
Clean Water For All This renews support for the Clean Water for All Coalition, a coalition of local and national environmental, conservation, and community advocates that promotes federal investments in equitable water practices, including nature-based solutions to flooding, community-based workforce development, and others. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2023 Location Reston, VA Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems
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
Island Press – Center for Resource Economics Island Press will bolster the ability of urban practitioners to incorporate climate mitigation and adaptation solutions into their work. The organization’s publications and training courses will increasingly promote promising practices emerging from leaders and communities of color to advance climate justice. View Website Amount $350,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Environment Focus Area Field Building
The New School This grant supports a Senior Fellow at the Tishman Environment and Design Center to provide expert advice and thought leadership on climate and environmental justice issues to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through an Intergovernmental Personnel Act agreement. The Senior Fellow will focus primarily on the implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to ensure that Justice40 commitments are met as its funds are deployed. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2023 Location New York, New York Program Environment Focus Area Field Building
Peoples Solar Energy Fund People’s Solar Energy Fund will work with its network of community-based solar developers to increase the pipeline of viable solar projects in low-wealth communities by creating a bridge loan fund to enable its members to maximize Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives, providing mini-grants for innovative community-ownership models, and building a pipeline of community-solar projects that can benefit from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2023 Location Florence, MA Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems
ProInspire This grant will support the launch and implementation of the Fellowship for Liberated Futures, designed to support the well-being and long-term leadership of Black women leading climate- and racial-justice efforts across the social sector. The fellowship responds to pervasive burnout among social justice leaders, especially Black-led organizations building power in communities of color. Fellows will engage in a robust program of in-person retreats, virtual meetings, and curated healing and wellness offerings to provide respite, closer ties with other social-change agents, and renewed energy to continue their work. View Website Amount $900,000 Year 2023 Location Arlington, Virginia Program Environment Focus Area Field Building
Collective Energy Co, LLC This grant will strengthen the efforts of Collective Energy to develop resilient power systems for health centers in underserved communities, including through piloting new pathways, enabled by the Inflation Reduction Act, to monetize the federal Solar Investment Tax Credit; modeling an approach to system installation that expands diversity and opportunity in the clean-energy workforce; and undertaking community-centered educational and market-assessment activities, and completing predevelopment in at least five health centers each in Fresno and Hawaii. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2023 Location Ojai, CA Program American Cities, Detroit, Environment, Health, Social Investment Practice Focus Area
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition This grant will help the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition advocate, provide technical assistance, and build public-private sector consensus for equitable implementation of planned city stormwater infrastructure projects, greenspace expansion, and affordable housing development. View Website Amount $270,000 Year 2023 Location Seattle, WA Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems
The New School The New School will partner with community stakeholders in Milwaukee and New York City to analyze the effects of green stormwater infrastructure on flood risk reduction and advocate for incorporating equity considerations into improving that infrastructure. View Website Amount $220,000 Year 2023 Location New York, New York Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems
Institute for Market Transformation Inc. The Institute for Market Transformation will expand its efforts to equitably decarbonize buildings by supporting local jurisdictions and frontline organizations in advancing equitable building performance policies, including in Chicago, Kansas City and New Orleans. It will also strengthen the enabling environment for equitable building performance policies. View Website Amount $750,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Environment Focus Area Transforming Urban Systems