This grant provides project support to the City of Detroit to launch its Office of Early Learning (OEL). OEL will contribute to an increase in high-quality early childhood seats in Detroit and strengthen supports for early childhood providers through provider recruitment and quality coaching, enrollment supports, facilities support, workforce and talent pipelines, and business supports. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP) for the development and delivery of programs designed to create a vibrant, world-class urban core in Downtown Detroit. View Website

This grant will enable Forefront, Illinois’ combined membership association for nonprofits and foundations, to document and analyze the state’s current racial equity efforts across multiple sectors and improve convening and organizing efforts designed to remedy racial disparities and injustices. The new Racial Equity Collective will create a permanent, embedded track of learning focused on racial equity in all of Forefront’s programming, and the organization will explore how to scale the approach with other statewide nonprofit associations. View Website

This grant will enable Collective Energy to develop an education, development and financing program focused on the adoption of resilient power systems by community health care centers in Puerto Rico. The grant will support Collective Energy’s ability to 1) partner with the Puerto Rico Primary Care Association to offer educational sessions; 2) carry out predevelopment activities for pilot systems at four community health care locations; and, 3) convene local and mainland funders and investors around the capital needs to ensure every community health center in Puerto Rico can have a resilient power system within five years. View Website

This grant will support the Center for Impact Finance to: (1) host a Financial Innovations Roundtable on Advancing Clean Energy Equity through Collaboration among Green Banks and CDFIs; and (2) test a new approach to technical assistance for community-solar installation projects, in which place-based community teams will be guided through the development and financing stages. View Website

This grant is part of a suite of SIP field-building grants designed to strengthen the impact investing and community development finance ecosystems and support the efficient deployment of capital for social impact. As institutional investment in community development finance institutions (CDFIs) has grown, commercial rating firms have entered the market, focused on the largest CDFIs. Aeris, as the rating agency for CDFIs, has seen this as a validation of its efforts, and a good opportunity to review its own role. Aeris will use the Kresge grant to partially fund a strategic evaluation and planning effort, staffed by Next Street, focused on how best to support capital investment in mid-sized and smaller CDFIs many of which operate closest to under-served communities, are more likely to be led by people of color, and least likely to be adequately served by commercial rating agencies. View Website

The New Capitalism Project (NCP) provides alignment among organizations in impact investing and related fields in the change ecosystem. This grant will help fund the creation of a collaborative space and network in which aligned actors in this ecosystem will experiment with strategies to advance economic system changes and recalibrate capitalism in order to build an economic system that serves all people and the planet. View Website

Historically, BIPOC community development entities/ community development financial institutions have obtained NMTC awards at lower rates and lower amounts relative to their presence in the sector, resulting in their being under-resourced. This grant supports the African American Alliance of Community Development Financial Institutions' efforts to change this dynamic by funding a program that will build capacity for more successful applications by providing access to the same professionals and resources that have been critical to large banks and financial institutions. View Website

This is a planning grant related to a future grant request to fund the AAA CDFI program which is designed to increase the allocation of NMTC’s to AAA CDFI members. It will strengthen the BIPOC lead financial systems that support the communities we serve. SIP has a long standing relationship with AAA CDFI and they are the only organization positioned to support the work of black-led CDFIs. View Website

This grant will fund Kresge’s membership in the GIIN Investors Council (IC) for 2022. The GIIN is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing around the world. In response to demand from leading impact investors for a global collaboration platform, the GIIN manages the Investors’ Council (IC) – an invitation-only leadership group for active large-scale impact investors. Composed of asset owners and asset managers with diverse interests across sectors and geographies, the IC provides a forum for experienced impact investors to strengthen the practice of impact investing. View Website

This grant will provide support for the 2022 Detroit Homecoming, an annual event launched in 2014, by Crain’s Detroit Business to re-engage and encourage former Detroiters to invest in the redevelopment of Detroit and foster economic growth. The Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP) is serving as a partner and fiscal sponsor for the event. View Website

Capital Impact Partners (CIP) is seeking a grant to support the expansion of Detroit Equitable Development Initiative (EDI), by building out a critical project feasibility capital pool for Detroit EDI alumni that will help stabilize neighborhoods and build wealth for aspiring and emerging housing developers of color. View Website

This grant will support Culture Lab Detroit (CLD) to convene its annual series of curated, highly-visible, neighborhood-based panel discussions that foster collaboration between Detroit and the international artistic and design community. With a focus on the role of arts and culture in Detroit’s post-COVID-19 recovery, Kresge support will enable CLD to target its 2022-2023 programs in three neighborhoods. The Villages, Live6, and Southwest Detroit. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy to maintain and operate the Marygrove campus in northwest Detroit. This support is part of Kresge’s ongoing support for the Marygrove Transformation Project, and supports the Marygrove Conservancy’s day-to-day operations focused on facility maintenance, staffing, security, utilities, and other functions critical to the operations of the campus. View Website

The German Marshall Fund of the United States will resume the transatlantic leadership exchange programs in Detroit that were suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. Kresge funding will enable the Detroit cohort selected through a competitive citywide application process in March 2020 and March 2021 to complete their participation in the program, as well as: (1) enabling Wayne State University to host two, annual European delegation meetings in Detroit; and (2) supporting the involvement of Detroit alumni in the Fund's seminars, briefings, and leader retreats. View Website

The Funders’ Collaborative for Youth Organizing will continue to strengthen the national infrastructure of youth organizing, including fostering a talent pipeline for racial justice organizing and deepening their partnership with Detroit-based racial justice organizations. The Collaborative will also identify how arts and cultural practices can be incorporated into the work of youth organizing. View Website

The City of Detroit's Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship will develop projects in which arts and cultural programs contribute to improved physical and social conditions in neighborhoods, using grants, cross-sector partnerships, and connections to ongoing city programming to promote the integration of arts and culture into public and civic decision-making. View Website

This grant provides project support to IFF to manage the implementation of the Hope Starts Here framework. IFF has been acting as a fiscal sponsor for Hope Starts Here since 2019, but will strengthen its role moving forward to serve as a backbone organization to fully manage the framework’s implementation. View Website

Detroit Food Commons (DFC) is a community-based effort to increase equity in Detroit’s food systems. DFC is a collaboration between Develop Detroit (DDI), a nonprofit real estate development organization, and the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), a nonprofit organization that works to advance food justice. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy to maintain and operate the Marygrove campus in northwest Detroit. This support is part of Kresge’s ongoing support for the Marygrove Transformation Project, and supports the Marygrove Conservancy’s day-to-day operations focused on facility maintenance, staffing, security, utilities and other functions critical to the operations of the campus. View Website