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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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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

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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 Cross-Sector Partnerships

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 Cross-Sector Partnerships, 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 Cross-Sector Partnerships

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

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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 Cross-Sector Partnerships

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 Cross-Sector Partnerships

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

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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

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