Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism This grant will support a journalism fellowship program at the Association of Healthcare Journalists that gives scholarships to 10 journalists each year for two years, with a focus on Black, Indigenous and other journalists of color in Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans and Fresno. As part of their fellowship, selected journalists will receive one year of AHCJ membership and have the full cost of their attendance at the AHCJ yearly conference covered. View Website Amount $60,000 Year 2024 Location Columbia, Missouri Program Health 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
Ubuntu Village NOLA This grant from the Health and American Cities programs will support Ubuntu Village expand its trauma-informed education, training, community outreach, cultural programming, mentorship, and advocacy programs that support New Orleans residents impacted by violence, including those served through the University Medical Center hospital-based violence intervention program and Seeds of NOLA Trauma Recovery Center. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2024 Location 2021 South Dupre St, New Orleans LA 70125 Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
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
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp. This project grant supports the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America) to expand its cultural community development and health equity initiatives. Kresge funds will support training, convenings, expanding and merging its cultural community development and health equity initiatives – the Community Leadership Institute and Health Equity Lab, which will be available to its network of over 250 local community development partners. View Website Amount $725,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships
Local Initiatives Support Corporation – Memphis This grant will support LISC's efforts to create equitable, safe, and resilient communities of opportunity in Memphis. Kresge funds will help to staff LISC's Memphis office and fund two programs: the Greater Memphis Community Violence Intervention Program and the 901Help home repair program. View Website Amount $800.000 Year 2023 Location Memphis, TN Program American Cities, Health Focus Area Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans
Healthcare Anchor Network Inc. This grant will support the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) as it continues to push healthcare systems to dedicate a more significant share of their purchasing, hiring and investment power to build wealth and improve health equity in low-income communities of color. View Website Amount $950,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Community Investment for Health Equity
Verge Impact Partners, LLC This project grant to Verge Impact Partners will enable the Advancing Health Equity through Housing learning community to co-create and participate in one in-person convening, one virtual convening, and four thematic/regional gatherings. Amount $350,770 Year 2023 Location Columbus, OH Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Bold Futures NM This operating grant supports Bold Futures’ mission and work with mission-aligned artists and cultural workers to uplift resident voices, build community power, and shift harmful narratives on reproductive health, criminal justice reform, and youth development issues. View Website Amount $200,000 Year Location Albuquerque, NM Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Inclusive Capital Collective This grant will enable the growth of the Inclusive Capital Collective (ICC), a network of BIPOC-led community investment innovators (including current Kresge grantees), as they implement new models of development and ownership that repair historic patterns of racism in the financial system and build community wealth. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2023 Location Portland, OR Program Health, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Community Investment for Health Equity
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
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
Convergence Partnership This grant provides operating support for the Convergence Partnership, a collaboration of 11 national and regional foundations working to promote health equity and racial justice by building community power, changing harmful narratives, and influencing philanthropic practice. View Website Amount $800,000 Year 2023 Location Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Louisiana Public Health Institute Louisiana Public Health Institute will collaborate with its community partners to redouble efforts to eliminate racial and social inequities in health, specifically focusing on health services that have become increasingly politicized during COVID-19. These areas include but are not limited to services related to maternal health, immunizations, LGBQT+ health, and firearm injury prevention. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2023 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
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
Hawaii Investment Ready This grant provides operating support to Hawai’i Investment Ready. This Native-led nonprofit serves as an intermediary between entrepreneurs and enterprises seeking to solve social and environmental problems and impact investors who can help them reach their goals. View Website Amount $535,000 Year 2023 Location Kaneohe, HI Program Health Focus Area Community Investment for Health Equity
Health Leads Inc. Health Leads will be the backbone of a new Health Equity Community Collaborative (HECC). Diverse partners will build upon a successful COVID-19 vaccine equity collaborative to address a fuller spectrum of advocacy and action, especially for children and youth, maternal health care, community-based health workers including doulas, and community-based mental health interventions. View Website Amount $800,000 Year 2023 Location Boston, Massachusetts Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
The Steve Fund This capacity-building grant will enable The Steve Fund to lead the first-of-its-kind partnership effort to build HBCUs’ capacity to help students achieve academic, career and personal success by leveraging mental health and emotional wellbeing support. The Steve Fund will partner with key organizations to disseminate a survey to HBCU students and staff, and develop and deliver actionable evidence-based approaches to advance policy, practices and programs at HBCUs. View Website Amount &600,000 Year 2023 Location Program Education, Health Focus Area Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success
Youth Radio YR Media will provide youth training, technical assistance, stipends, and support to five Kresge-funded community-based organizations in Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans, Fresno, and the SF Bay Area as they develop a multi-community, co-branded, high-impact podcast series and media microsite to amplify their community safety and health work. View Website Amount $240,000 Year 2023 Location Oakland, California Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Funders for Housing and Opportunity Funding for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a multi-funder collaborative that addresses the health impacts of housing instability, particularly for people of color. FHO will provide financial support to nonprofit organizations for grantmaking priorities, learning, field building, and external engagement. View Website Amount $750,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions