Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience This grant provides general operating support to the Wing Luke Museum to strengthen the cultural resiliency of Seattle’s historic Chinatown and International District. View Website Amount $200,000 Year 2020 Location Seattle, Washington Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods
The Village of Arts and Humanities This general operating grant will support the Village of Arts and Humanities’ Creative Placemaking activities in Philadelphia and participation in Kresge’s Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) initiative. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2020 Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods
Verde This general operating grant will support Verde’s Creative Placemaking activities in Portland, OR, and participation in Kresge’s Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) initiative. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2020 Location Portland, Oregon Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods
United States Artists, Inc. The purpose of this grant is to support United States Artists, a national intermediary, to launch an Artist Relief Fund to address the immediate financial distress of individual artists and creative workers caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2020 Location Chicago, Ill. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
The Trust for Public Land This project grant supports The Trust for Public Land to promote parks and green space as essential to promoting public life, advancing green development practices and improving health outcomes in low-income communities. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2020 Location San Francisco, California Program Arts & Culture, Environment, Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions, Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field, Transforming Urban Systems
Smart Growth America This project grant supports Smart Growth America’s launch of an equitable Creative Placemaking collaborative for three cities, selected through a competitive call, to design transportation projects that equitably respond to COVID-19's community impact. View Website Amount $125,000 Year 2020 Location Washington, D.C. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Rootoftwo, LLC. This project grant for Rootofto will allow them to conduct a participatory research project to explore the characteristics, assets and pre-conditions of cultural ecosystems in Detroit, Memphis and New Orleans to inform strategies and identify opportunities for recovery and renewal centered on racial equity, arts and community development. View Website Amount $205,000 Year 2020 Location Ann Arbor, MI Program Arts & Culture, Detroit Focus Area
Richmond Land This operating grant supports the expansion of the Building Power Fellowship, a Richmond, California-based program that positions residents living with low incomes to carry out long-term, arts-centered projects around specific community development priorities (including new resident priorities emerging as a result of COVID-19) Amount $100,000 Year 2020 Location Richmond, CA Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods
National Community Reinvestment Coalition This project grant supports the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) in conducting research on the impacts of COVID-19 and response efforts on culturally-specific businesses, particularly those led by entrepreneurs of color, and implications this has to the Creative Placemaking Field. View Website Amount $75,000 Year 2020 Location Washington, D.C. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development This cross-team operating grant supports the expansion of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development’s work on two critical efforts - its displacement mitigation programming and policy efforts and its Creative Placemaking Learning Circle. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2020 Location Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions, Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Mixed Blood Theatre This operating grant will enable Mixed Blood Theatre to strengthen and expand its creative community-building work in Minneapolis’ dense and diverse Cedar Riverside neighborhood. View Website Amount $80,000 Year 2020 Location Minneapolis, Minnesota Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation This general operating grant will support Esperanza Community Housing Corporation’s Creative Placemaking activities in Los Angeles and participation in Kresge’s Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) initiative. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2020 Location Los Angeles, CA Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods
East LA Community Corporation This general operating grant will support East LA Community Corporation’s (ELACC’s) in Los Angeles and participation in Kresge’s Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) initiative. View Website Amount $152,000 Year 2020 Location Los Angeles, CA Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods
Efforts of Grace Inc. This grant provides project support to Ashé Cultural Arts Center to launch Community Spread, a cross-sector, grassroots collaborative to expand the delivery of culture and health-infused community revitalization in the Claiborne Corridor. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2020 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
University of Michigan This grant provides funding support to the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Ann Arbor, Michigan Program Focus Area
UNC General Alumni Association This grant provides support to the University of North Carolina General Alumni Association's Light on the Hill Society Scholarship, which provides scholarship awards and professional development opportunities to African-American college students. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2020 Location Chapel Hill, NC Program Focus Area
Trustees of Boston University This grant provides general operating funds to Boston University's Building Refugee and Immigrant Degrees for Graduate School Education (BRIDGE) program, which aims to increase access to graduate social work education for refugees and immigrants. View Website Amount $30,000 Year 2020 Location Boston, MA Program Focus Area
The Henry Ford This grant provides general operating support to The Henry Ford, a nationally renowned cultural institution located in Dearborn, Michigan. View Website Amount $25,000 Year 2020 Location Dearborn, Mich. Program Focus Area
The Empowerment Plan This grant provides general operating support to the Empowerment Plan's organizational priorities of sustaining current job opportunities, increasing the number of individuals served, and generating a higher rate of individuals advancing into middle-wage employment opportunities. View Website Amount $225,000 Year 2020 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Focus Area
The Aspen Institute, Inc. This grant will provide general operating support for the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Philanthropy Group and their efforts to strengthen the social sector through problem-solving working groups, leadership development initiatives, communications and partnerships. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2020 Location Washington, DC Program Focus Area