This grant supports the Washington Center for Equitable Growth (WCEG) to provide staff capacity for racial equity work at the U.S. Department of Treasury through an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment. View Website

This grant supports Rainbow Research's evaluation of Creative Placemaking projects within municipal agencies to examine shifts in participants’ (municipal employees, artists and residents) behaviors and practices. This research will draw lessons from previous grantees across the country and inform future team investments, including in Kresge focus cities such as the City of Detroit's Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship office. View Website

This project grant supports One Square World's resident leadership programs that advance climate and environmental justice through cultural organizing. Kresge funds will support project personnel, including resident and community partners, cultural strategists, artists, and project expenses. View Website

This grant will enable the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) to create a framework for how higher education institutions can incorporate student perspectives in the development and implementation of college admission policies, processes and practices.  NACAC will convene a group of students and college admissions specialists to develop this equity-focused framework and disseminate it to its 25,000 members with the goal of encouraging and equipping institutions to more intentionally include student perspectives. This grant aligns with one of the Education Team’s 2022 grantmaking strategies, “promoting student voice.” View Website

The purpose of this grant is to support the Puerto Rico Women’s Foundation (PRWF)—the only philanthropic entity exclusively committed to advancing gender and racial justice within Puerto Rico. This grant will be used to support advocacy work in the sphere of gender and racial justice and systems change; and providing holistic services to the women who are the backbone of Puerto Rico’s families and communities. PRWF will join the Human Service Program’s community of women’s foundation that share a commitment to addressing the women’s wealth gap. View Website

This grant will bolster the fundraising capacity of the Michigan Hispanic Collaborative, which is headquartered in Southwest Detroit and is Michigan’s only Latina-led organization focused on assisting Latino students in attaining a postsecondary degree. View Website

This general operating grant supports the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon’s mission and programs that use visual arts, community-engaged design and storytelling to reclaim narratives and strengthen resident leadership and inclusive development. Kresge funds will support personnel and programming expenses and operations. View Website

This cross-team grant supports the Transforming Power Fund's culturally rooted, participatory grantmaking practices that contribute to community building and resident leadership in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park. The Fund provides funding, training and resources for neighborhood-level projects that address cultural and economic systemic issues and advance holistic solutions driven by communities. View Website

This grant will enable Strive for College to expand the number of students it supports nationally with college enrollment and completion coaching, and mentoring. In August 2022, the Common Application, also an education grantee, will offer Strive for College services to all its student applicants, increasing demand from 85,000 students to 136,000. To meet this emerging need, Strive for College will expand its corporate partnerships, increase its pool of volunteer mentors by 46%, and improve its mentor training and technological infrastructure. View Website

This trustee recognition grant for Orchards Children’s Services to provide general operating support is made at the request of retiring Trustee Paul Hillegonds. Orchard’s Children Services is a nonprofit agency providing a temporary safe-haven for children entering the foster care system, family preservation support, and adoption services. It is one of the largest child welfare agencies in the state of Michigan, founded in 1962 by the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) Greater Detroit Section. Today, Orchards Children’s Services serves over 8,000 children throughout 15 counties in the state of Michigan. View Website

This cross-team project grant supports the National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations’ Grounding Values research, which seeks to explore the sector's capacity to increase equitable practices and support inclusive growth in communities. Kresge funds will support project personnel, artists and community engagement, the development of five issue briefs, and related promotion. View Website

This grant will enable the Miami Workers Center to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through its previous HEH grant, the Center was able engage the community in advocating for tenant protections and rights, primarily for low-income and BIPOC individuals within Miami-Dade County. View Website

This grant will provide general operating support to the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, which provides educational and social programming to the Jewish Community of Southern Maine, at the request of the Foundation's retiring trustee, Elaine Rosen and as part of her trustee recognition grants. View Website

This grant provides Invest Detroit with funding for research and analysis that will support an assessment by the City of Detroit's CFO and a structural tax reform task force of the impact and appropriateness of adopting a split-rate tax policy. View Website

This renewal funds Groundwork USA’s (GWUSA) Climate Safe Neighborhoods (CSN) program to advance equity-focused climate-resilience strategies in urban, low-income communities. GWUSA will provide regrants, geospatial climate modeling services, training, and other technical assistance to seven Groundwork cities to support their community engagement strategies, community training on redlining and climate risk, identification of climate mitigation and adaptation priorities, and implementation of policy and budgetary interventions. View Website

This Education and Human Services grant will strengthen Generation Hope's efforts to support college students who are parents (some 20% of undergraduates) and who rarely receive childcare and other supports needed to complete degrees. This grant expands to additional colleges the FamilyU Initiative, which provides consulting and professional development to college leaders representing 27,000 enrolled students .Generation Hope will also develop tools to promote systemic policy changes supporting student parents. View Website

This grant will support Fresno Building Healthy Communities (BHC) develop a strategic plan to implement a Community Justice Network, advocate for just transportation system funding, influence community preventative health investments, and expand its network of community-based organizations and residents advocating for investments in community wellness workers and neighborhood wellness teams This is another exploratory community safety and health grant being made in collaboration with the American Cities program. View Website

This grant supports ECO-Action in implementing a green stormwater infrastructure strategy for the Atlanta University Center, a consortium of four Historically Black Colleges and Universities; expanding adult and youth programs of the Atlanta Watershed Learning Network to build the capacity of community leaders to advocate for stronger, more equitable stormwater management practices in metro-Atlanta communities; and managing local Inter-Generational Action Learning Circles that organize in support of green infrastructure and watershed protection policies across Georgia. View Website

This grant to Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) is to fulfill Kresge’s three-year membership dues through the Leadership and Infrastructure Funding Team. EPIP is an organization whose mission is to empower emerging leaders and elevate philanthropic practice in order to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world.  This grant is one of 22 institutional memberships managed through the LIFT portfolio that provide benefits across the foundation. View Website

Education Reform Now will pursue changes in two inequitable college admissions practices: legacy preference and binding early decision. It will 1) research information gaps on these two policies; 2) develop policy proposals for federal, state, local and non-governmental actors; and 3) create a communications plan to influence elite opinion leaders and policymakers at the national, state and higher education institutional level using the findings and recommendations. View Website