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Kresge’s grant database allows you to search for grants awarded since 2009. You can search and filter by program area, focus area, year and location.

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Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.

This project grant supports the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America) to expand its cultural community development and health equity initiatives. Kresge funds will support training, convenings, expanding and merging its cultural community development and health equity initiatives – the Community Leadership Institute and Health Equity Lab, which will be available to its network of over 250 local community development partners. View Website

Amount

$725,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field

Local Initiatives Support Corporation – Memphis

This grant will support LISC's efforts to create equitable, safe, and resilient communities of opportunity in Memphis. Kresge funds will help to staff LISC's Memphis office and fund two programs: the Greater Memphis Community Violence Intervention Program and the 901Help home repair program. View Website

Amount

$800.000

Year

2023

Location

Memphis, TN

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Place-Based Community Development

Healthcare Anchor Network Inc.

This grant will support the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) as it continues to push healthcare systems to dedicate a more significant share of their purchasing, hiring and investment power to build wealth and improve health equity in low-income communities of color. View Website

Amount

$950,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Health, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Community Investment for Health Equity

Verge Impact Partners, LLC

This project grant to Verge Impact Partners will enable the Advancing Health Equity through Housing learning community to co-create and participate in one in-person convening, one virtual convening, and four thematic/regional gatherings.

Amount

$350,770

Year

2023

Location

Columbus, OH

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Bold Futures NM

This operating grant supports Bold Futures’ mission and work with mission-aligned artists and cultural workers to uplift resident voices, build community power, and shift harmful narratives on reproductive health, criminal justice reform, and youth development issues. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

Location

Albuquerque, NM

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods

Inclusive Capital Collective

This grant will enable the growth of the Inclusive Capital Collective (ICC), a network of BIPOC-led community investment innovators (including current Kresge grantees), as they implement new models of development and ownership that repair historic patterns of racism in the financial system and build community wealth. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2023

Location

Portland, OR

Program

Health, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Community Investment for Health Equity

American Public Health Association Inc.

This grant will support the Center for Climate, Health, and Equity at the American Public Health Association in building the capacity of public health professionals to partner with community-based constituents to drive equitable climate action through strategic communications training, research, and non-partisan policy development. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education, Health

Focus Area

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

Convergence Partnership

This grant provides operating support for the Convergence Partnership, a collaboration of 11 national and regional foundations working to promote health equity and racial justice by building community power, changing harmful narratives, and influencing philanthropic practice. View Website

Amount

$800,000

Year

2023

Location

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Louisiana Public Health Institute

Louisiana Public Health Institute will collaborate with its community partners to redouble efforts to eliminate racial and social inequities in health, specifically focusing on health services that have become increasingly politicized during COVID-19. These areas include but are not limited to services related to maternal health, immunizations, LGBQT+ health, and firearm injury prevention. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community Health Ecosystems

Collective Energy Co, LLC

This grant will strengthen the efforts of Collective Energy to develop resilient power systems for health centers in underserved communities, including through piloting new pathways, enabled by the Inflation Reduction Act, to monetize the federal Solar Investment Tax Credit; modeling an approach to system installation that expands diversity and opportunity in the clean-energy workforce; and undertaking community-centered educational and market-assessment activities, and completing predevelopment in at least five health centers each in Fresno and Hawaii. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

Ojai, CA

Program

American Cities, Detroit, Environment, Health, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Hawaii Investment Ready

This grant provides operating support to Hawai’i Investment Ready. This Native-led nonprofit serves as an intermediary between entrepreneurs and enterprises seeking to solve social and environmental problems and impact investors who can help them reach their goals. View Website

Amount

$535,000

Year

2023

Location

Kaneohe, HI

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community Investment for Health Equity

Health Leads Inc.

Health Leads will be the backbone of a new Health Equity Community Collaborative (HECC). Diverse partners will build upon a successful COVID-19 vaccine equity collaborative to address a fuller spectrum of advocacy and action, especially for children and youth, maternal health care, community-based health workers including doulas, and community-based mental health interventions. View Website

Amount

$800,000

Year

2023

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community Health Ecosystems

The Steve Fund

This capacity-building grant will enable The Steve Fund to lead the first-of-its-kind partnership effort to build HBCUs’ capacity to help students achieve academic, career and personal success by leveraging mental health and emotional wellbeing support. The Steve Fund will partner with key organizations to disseminate a survey to HBCU students and staff, and develop and deliver actionable evidence-based approaches to advance policy, practices and programs at HBCUs. View Website

Amount

&600,000

Year

2023

Location

Program

Education, Health

Focus Area

Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success

Youth Radio

YR Media will provide youth training, technical assistance, stipends, and support to five Kresge-funded community-based organizations in Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans, Fresno, and the SF Bay Area as they develop a multi-community, co-branded, high-impact podcast series and media microsite to amplify their community safety and health work. View Website

Amount

$240,000

Year

2023

Location

Oakland, California

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Funders for Housing and Opportunity

Funding for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a multi-funder collaborative that addresses the health impacts of housing instability, particularly for people of color. FHO will provide financial support to nonprofit organizations for grantmaking priorities, learning, field building, and external engagement. View Website

Amount

$750,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

People’s Housing+, Inc.

This cross-team general operating support grant supports People’s Housing+ as it seeks to address New Orleans’ widening racial wealth gap and lack of economic opportunity by creating healthy and resilient communities through mixed-use, multi-family affordable housing, resident-driven supportive services, stewardship of a community land trust, and housing policy advocacy. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, LA

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Place-Based Community Development

Memphis Medical District Collaborative

This cross-team grant will enable the Memphis Medical District Collaborative (MMDC) to influence the investment practices of their eight member institutions and to leverage additional capital to build the wealth of low-income, primarily Black residents and improve the livability of the neighborhoods in which they live. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2023

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Community Investment for Health Equity, Place-Based Community Development

National Housing Institute/Shelterforce

This two-year grant continues Kresge’s support of in-depth, independent reporting focused on health equity, creative placemaking, and community development. View Website

Amount

$360,000

Year

2023

Location

Montclair, N.J.

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Heal Memphis

This grant will enable Heal 901 to further expand its partnerships with the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis-Shelby County Schools to provide community-based mental health, violence interruption, and support services while expanding its network of partners advocating for investments in community wellness. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2023

Location

Memphis, TN

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Community Health Ecosystems

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