Americans for the Arts Inc. This project grant supports Americans for the Arts, the national arts advocacy and local arts service association, to research the social impacts of arts and culture in cities. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2017 Location Washington, D.C. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
ArtPlace America Geography Served: United States Project: In alignment with the Arts & Culture Program’s interest in national field-building projects that enhance the skills and effectiveness of practitioners in low-income urban communities, ArtPlace recognizes the importance of strengthening systems and developing methods that support the field. This project grant will support two of the final three years of ArtPlace America’s core work to elevate awareness of Creative Placemaking. View Website Amount $5 million Year 2017 Location New York, New York Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Artspace Projects Inc. This grant supports Artspace Projects, the Minneapolis-based national arts developer, for the next phase of a field building project launched two years ago in Detroit. The pilot project provided technical assistance and coaching services in real estate development for arts and community development projects, financing and management counsel to a cohort of 11 arts and community development organizations. View Website Amount $1,200,000 Year 2017 Location Minneapolis, Minnesota Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Association for Community Design Geography Served: Norfolk, Virginia Project: This grant supports the Association for Community Design, a national membership group of individuals and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning. This grant will enable the Association to leverage its equity-based platform to implement three programs: Convenings, Community Design Fellowship, and Research Initiatives. View Website Amount $75,000 Year 2018 Location Norfolk, Virginia Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
CatchLight This general operating grant will support CatchLight’s ongoing effort to promote and resource a national visual storytelling ecosystem. View Website Amount $227,500.00 Year 2021 Location Berkeley, California Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
CatchLight This 2-year general operating grant will support CatchLight’s ongoing effort to promote and resource a national visual storytelling ecosystem. View Website Amount $225,000 Year 2021 Location Berkeley, California Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
CEL Education Fund CEL Education Fund (also known as CultureStrike) supports artist fellowships, convenings and project incubation, as well as arts integration training for organizations focused on climate, immigration and gender and racial justice. This general operating support grant will allow continued expansion of national and regional infrastructure for artists of marginalized backgrounds to carry out social change work. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2019 Location Oakland, California Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Center for Community Progress Geography Served: Detroit, Michigan Project: The only national nonprofit solely dedicated to eliminating blight, Community Progress works to ensure properties viewed as liabilities are transformed into assets that benefit vulnerable populations. This three-year grant provides project support to the center’s work to improve policies and programs that tackle vacant, abandoned and deteriorated properties in Detroit to strengthen traditional residential neighborhoods. View Website Amount $894,000 Year 2017 Location Flint, Mich. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Center for Community Progress This cross-team project grant supports the Center for Community Progress’ efforts to increase equitable land and housing policy collaboration throughout the state of Michigan and integration of Creative Placemaking practices across its national network. View Website Amount $225,000 Year 2020 Location Flint, Mich. Program Arts & Culture, Detroit Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Define American This project grant supports the refinement of Define American’s Immigrant Artist Fellowship's 2020 and 2021 cohorts, which focus on the skills and visibility of immigrant artists, especially those living without documentation, who are committed to shifting local and national immigration narratives. View Website Amount $190,000 Year 2020 Location Louisville, Kentucky Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Enterprise Community Partners Inc. Geography Served: Columbia, Maryland Project: This grant supports the continued adoption of Creative Placemaking into Enterprise's National Strategic Initiatives, focusing on full integration of culture and creativity within Enterprise National Initiatives and development of tools and resources. View Website Amount $450,000 Year 2018 Location Columbia, Maryland Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
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 the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies This project grant to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies supports a two-day National Endowment for the Arts/White House Summit on Integrating Arts and Culture in Civic Infrastructure for Healthy, Equitable Communities. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
National Performance Network This project grant supports the National Performance Network’s efforts to fortify the role of arts and culture in movement building. Kresge funds will enable the Network to provide financial resources for local projects, curated coaching, peer convenings and collective learning so its members, including organizations, artists and culture workers, can more deeply integrate with racial and social justice movements in their communities. View Website Amount $1 million Year 2023 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Grantmakers in the Arts Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) is a national professional membership organization for grant makers supporting the arts and arts-related activities. This three-year grant will provide general operating and membership support to renew and maintain infrastructure, to assist GIA in expanding and leveraging its platforms relevant to the progression of the field of philanthropy. View Website Amount $90,000 Year 2017 Location Seattle, Washington Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Juxtaposition Arts This grant amendment will enable Juxtaposition Arts (Juxtaposition) to continue its role as a national Creative Placemaking exemplar working at the nexus of arts and community development and will support a new Learning Institute. The Institute, acting as a consultancy, will provide a platform to share learnings from its extensive work using arts and culture as a driver of neighborhood-based equitable development. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2019 Location Minneapolis, Minn. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Local Initiatives Support Corp. Geography Served: United States Project: Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) collaborates with community groups to identify local needs and mobilize capital and expertise to get programs running and projects built. This two-year grant supports its Creative Placemaking program and will use lessons learned from its pilot initiatives to regrant, deploy complementary loan capital, and capture research indicators in three specific locations linking Creative Placemaking to the LISC National Institute. View Website Amount $1.5 million Year 2017 Location New York, New York Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
Local Initiatives Support Corp. With residents and partners, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) forges long-term local relationships to equip communities with the capital, strategy and know-how to become places where people thrive. This project grant supports the national LISC office to continue its Creative Placemaking initiative. View Website Amount $1,100,000 Year 2019 Location New York, New York Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
National Arts Strategies Inc. Geography Served: Alexandria, Va. Project: Working with faculty from business and management schools around the country, the organization develops programs and tools designed to help cultural leaders create change in their communities. This three-year grant provides general operating support. View Website Amount $1,500,000 Year 2015 Location Alexandria, Virginia Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field
National Arts Strategies, Inc. This 2-year grant provides project support to National Arts Strategies’ (NAS) expansion of Creative Placemaking for technical support to be utilized across all its leadership development programs. Specifically, funding will allow NAS to expand equity-explicit content and support services within both the Chief Executive program and the Creative Community Fellowship. As part of the Arts & Culture Team’s Field Building focus area, and in alignment with the Bridgespan Creative Placemaking Strong Field Framework, this effort invests in initiatives that build the conditions to expand and sustain Creative Placemaking and its role in equitable community development nationwide. View Website Amount $700,000 Year 2019 Location Alexandria, Virginia Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field