The Urban Institute This grant will support a set of virtual convenings in September 2020 to create a policy agenda to support public housing authorities in recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, as well as to support long-term preservation and revitalization of the public housing stock. The Urban Institute is a nonprofit research organizations that opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research. View Website Amount $60,000 Year 2020 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area
Tides Center This grant supports the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, the convening body of the AAPI COVID-19 taskforce, a coalition of more than 35 national AAPI organizations coordinating a unified response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its sociopolitical ramifications in AAPI communities. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2020 Location San Francisco, California Program Health Focus Area
Asian Economic Development Association This grant amendment will allow AEDA, a FreshLo grantee, and their partnering organization UFGA to support staffing and operations to continue addressing the emergency needs of the Asian community in response to COVID-19. Direct support includes emergency relief information in Asian languages, food distribution and more. View Website Amount $20,000 Year 2020 Location Saint Paul, Minnesota Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area
Athens Land Trust This grant amendment will assist with updated technology and equipment needs to support Athens Land Trust, a FreshLo grantee, in operating a socially distanced market and providing emergency food for the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. View Website Amount $20,000 Year 2020 Location Athens, Georgia Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area
Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington This grant amendment will allow CGN, a FreshLo grantee, to support staffing and operations while working to connect their small businesses with local and federal emergency funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. View Website Amount $7,500 Year 2020 Location Covington, Ky. Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability This grant amendment will extend the planning grant period for Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability by six months and provide additional funds to complete the planning phase of their work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Fresno, California Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Partners for a Healthier Community This grant amendment will extend the planning grant period for Partners for a Healthier Community by six months and provide additional funds to complete the planning phase of their work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Springfield, Massachusetts Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Partnership for Southern Equity This grant amendment will extend the planning grant period for Partnership for Southern Equity by six months and provide additional funds to complete the planning phase of their work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Atlanta, Georgia Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles This grant amendment will extend the planning grant period for Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles by six months and provide additional funds to complete the planning phase of their work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Los Angeles, California Program Environment, Health Focus Area
UPROSE Inc. This financial amendment will extend the planning grant period for UPROSE, Inc. by six months and provide additional funds to complete the planning phase of their work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Brooklyn, New York Program Environment, Health Focus Area
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc. This grant amendment will extend the planning grant period for West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. by six months and provide additional funds to complete the planning phase of their work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location New York, New York Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative This financial amendment will allow the Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative to shift approaches in response to COVID-19 by extending the planning grant period by six months and providing additional funds to complete the planning phase of its work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative. Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Boston, Massachusetts Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Got Green This financial amendment will allow Got Green to shift approaches in response to COVID-19 by extending the planning grant period by six months and providing additional funds to complete the planning phase of its work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Seattle, Washington Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Go! Austin/Vamos! Austin This financial amendment will allow Go Austin/Vamos Austin to shift approaches in response to COVID-19 by extending the planning grant period by six months and providing additional funds to complete the planning phase of its work though Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Austin, Texas Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Champaign-Urbana Public Health District In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this financial amendment will allow CUPH to 1) conduct outreach to Spanish and French speaking families, by expanding staff and community volunteer support, and translating health educational materials that are language appropriate and specific; 2) insuring that department staff have access to the appropriate personal protection equipment and supplies; and 3) to enhance the department’s capacity to provide in-home testing and contact tracing for migrant, immigrant and refugee families who are avoiding centralized services due to fears related to their legal status. View Website Amount $25,000 Year 2020 Location Champaign, Illinois Program Health Focus Area
Dream of Wild Health This financial amendment will allow Dream of Wild Health to adapt their operations to enable them to continue producing and distributing healthy food to the Native American community in Minneapolis. View Website Amount $10,000 Year 2020 Location Minneapolis, MN Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area
Boston Public Health Commisssion This financial amendment will support Federally Qualified Health Centers with the supplies needed to support site engagement in COVID-19 testing activities, to obtainpersonal protection equipment, and to obtain the materials needed to promote and activate the testing sites. View Website Amount $25,000 Year 2020 Location Boston, MA Program Health Focus Area
La Mujer Obrera This financial amendment will support staffing, operations and direct people support for La Mujer Obrera in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. View Website Amount $20,000 Year 2020 Location El Paso, Texas Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area
New Venture Fund View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2020 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders This grant amendment will help support a new full-time communications director position that will allow Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders to accelerate its ability to apply an equity lens to its policy work. The need for a communications director and advancing equitable policy has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Santa Barbara, Calif. Program Health Focus Area