Movement Strategy Center, a national intermediary supporting 40 fiscally sponsored partners and over 180 grantee collaborators, receives operating support to strengthen community-based initiatives working at the intersection of cultural strategy, racial justice, and movement building. This cross-team investment recognizes the organization's role in advancing equitable community change through creative approaches that center culture as a driver of social transformation. View Website

This grant provides continued support to Groundswell, which partners with communities to develop community solar projects and resilience hubs while operating a subscriber-management platform that enables low-wealth customers to seamlessly access and benefit from solar programs. Groundswell's work advances energy equity by removing barriers that have historically excluded low-income communities from clean energy opportunities. View Website

This grant continues support for the Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, a regranting intermediary that strengthens frontline organizations' capacity to advance equitable climate regulations across 13 states. The Equity Fund combines sustained funding with expert policy analysis and narrative strategy to build authentic power in communities most impacted by climate change and energy transitions. View Website

This grant will provide general operating support for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), the premier network through which local government sustainability practitioners across the U.S. access resources and collaborate to advance their work. View Website

This grant supports ChangeLab Solutions to host their Accelerating Policy Change series in communities interested in partnering with regions where health inequalities persist to help educate and use tools of law and policy to support health. View Website

This grant supports the Institute to convene representatives from local environmental justice organizations and media outlets in Detroit to establish relationships between the two sectors and to prioritize key stories for climate action and impact. View Website

This grant enables the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange, a network of 560+ municipal water utility leaders, to share knowledge and advance advocacy in addressing climate-driven, urban flooding. View Website

This grant supports the Environmental Protection Network, Lawyers for Good Government, and National Resources Defense Council (the Coalition) to aid non-profit organizations who have been awarded climate-related funding from the federal government, but whose funding is under threat of rescindment, delay, and/or investigation. View Website

This grant supports the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) in scaling Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) investments in cities through innovative local funding approaches, such as Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund programs, Pay for Success contracting, and GSI incentives. View Website

Global Philanthropy Partnership receives support to organize a study tour in Paris for Midwest public-sector leaders, business leaders, and funders focused on ambitious and equitable approaches to transportation, clean energy, and climate resilience. Kresge's Detroit and Environment teams jointly fund participation for up to four public-sector leaders from Michigan, enabling them to learn from international best practices and bring transformative ideas back to their communities. View Website

This renewal grant supports The Water Hub's work collaborating with frontline communities to build public support and political will for multi-benefit water projects in historically disadvantaged communities. The organization provides communications materials, training, and technical assistance to make water and climate resilience communications more accessible while empowering impacted communities to lead in shaping solutions. Multiplier provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

This 13-month grant supports the 2026 National Adaptation Forum, the premier U.S. conference for climate change adaptation knowledge exchange and field building, with Kresge funds specifically subsidizing travel and registration for speakers and participants from underrepresented groups. The Forum will convene leaders from local government, nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, businesses, academic institutions, and frontline communities to strengthen collaboration among adaptation practitioners and accelerate equitable climate action in U.S. cities. View Website

This renewal grant supports the Green Leadership Trust (GLT), a member-led organization dedicated to empowering underrepresented leaders serving on the boards of environmental and climate nonprofit organizations. GLT assists these board members through peer learning networks, advocacy training, and intergenerational gatherings, building a more powerful environmental and climate justice movement that centers the leadership and perspectives of communities most impacted by environmental inequities. The Partnership Project, Inc. provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

This grant supports the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network (SSDN), representing municipal staff from more than 135 cities, local governments, and tribes across ten Southeastern states. SSDN will build local-government capacity to develop and implement equitable climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, strengthen relationships between local governments and frontline communities, help cities access public and private funding, and grow the organization's financial and operational sustainability. View Website

This grant renews funding to the People's Climate Innovation Center (PCIC) to provide strategic support to grantees in the next phase of Kresge's Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). PCIC will design and manage peer-learning activities and events, coordinate technical assistance and regranting, develop resources and infrastructure to foster a strong community of learning and practice among community-based organizations, public health practitioners, and health institutions within the CCHE network, and assist with the grant application and proposal review process for the next cohort. View Website

The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) will support local governments and community-based organizations to design and implement comprehensive, equity-driven clean energy approaches with a housing focus. This continued funding responds to direct requests from local partners, often through the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, who find this technical assistance especially critical as federal support for clean energy and climate justice has diminished. ACEEE's work ensures that cities can continue advancing equitable clean energy transitions that benefit low-income communities despite shifting federal priorities. View Website

This cross-team Arts & Culture and Health grant supports the One Nation/One Project, a two-year national arts and health initiative examining the role of arts and culture in repairing the social fabric and contributing to healthier outcomes. View Website

This grant supports Island Press’ efforts to inform the public and policymakers of climate challenges and solutions and to bolster urban practitioners’ abilities to incorporate climate mitigation and adaptation into their work. View Website

With this grant GreenLatinos will strengthen the capacity of cross-sectoral, Latino/a/x leaders to advance climate-resilience policies and practices centered in equity and justice. View Website

This grant will enable WeSolar, the first Black-female-owned community-solar-power company in the United States, to strengthen its capacity to support grassroot groups, nonprofits, health organizations and churches seeking to implement solar projects. View Website