Seed Commons Seed Commons has invested in local food businesses including Detroit People's Food Co-op, Pagoda Café and Flipping Birds (worker-owned restaurants in New Orleans), and Harvesters farm worker cooperative near Fresno, CA. Its "train the trainer" model complements efforts led by the EFOD Collaborative to build capacity in cooperative businesses and create lasting economic ecosystems in communities. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2026 Location New York, NY Program Health Focus Area Community Investment for Health Equity
People’s Climate Innovation Center This grant will support the People's Climate Innovation Center (PCIC) to continue as the peer learning and capacity-building partner for Kresge's Climate Change, Health & Equity Initiative (CCHE). PCIC will design and execute place-based and national convenings, manage a flexible fund, and coordinate peer learning and capacity-building efforts with technical assistance partners to foster a strong community of learning and practice among grantees within the CCHE network. This grant also includes funds for PCIC's facilitation support at a Kresge-hosted event during the 2026 National Adaptation Forum in Pittsburgh, PA. Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc. will be the fiscal organization for this grant. View Website Amount $2,423,763 Year 2026 Location Calabasas, CA Program Environment, Health Focus Area
Live6 Alliance This grant provides project support to the Live6 Alliance to design, implement and manage initiatives that anchor Kresge’s investment strategy in the Livernois-McNichols district. This grant consolidates Kresge support for initiatives that will launch in 2026, including program costs and staffing capacity to implement the Resident Investment and Opportunity Fund, Neighborhood Association Operating Grants, land use pilots and planning, and commercial corridor sustainability and activation initiatives. View Website Amount $1,100,000 Year 2026 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit, Health, Human Services Focus Area
George Washington University This grant will provide continuing support to the Funders Forum on Accountable Health, which plays an important role as a national convener and intermediary for philanthropic funders investing in community-driven, multisector health partnerships. The proposed work will equip Kresge and peer funders with timely policy analysis, field learning, and opportunities for alignment to sustain and scale community-centered approaches that address structural racism, disinvestment, and persistent health inequities. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2026 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation The Growing Justice Fund drives health equity by reshaping the flow of capital into BIPOC-led food systems and community-owned infrastructure. By strengthening the operational readiness of local producers and guiding anchor institutions toward values-based procurement, the Fund transforms the food supply chain into a primary driver of regional wellness. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2026 Location Program Health Focus Area Community Investment for Health Equity
Corbin Hill Food Project The Fidelity Equity Dignity Collective is a national network working to transform Food as Medicine from a top-down, clinically driven model to one centered on community leadership, cultural relevance, and structural equity. The Collective will expand its Community of Practice & Power for peer learning and advocacy, lead a technology discovery process to support community capacity and data sovereignty, and adapt its Community Workbook with managed care organizations to embed community-centered practices in Medicaid and health systems. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2026 Location Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
National Housing Institute/Shelterforce This cross-team renewal grant, between Arts and Culture and Health, will support Shelterforce as they continue in-depth, independent journalism highlighting health equity, creative placemaking, and community development approaches that interrupt systemic inequities in healthcare, education, housing instability, and economic opportunities throughout the country. View Website Amount $390,000 Year 2025 Location Montclair, N.J. Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
RYSE This cross-team grant from the Health and Arts & Culture programs will enable the RYSE Center to build its capacity as a national field building leader in creative, culturally affirming and community-centered healing strategies that support the collective, multi-modal learning and dissemination activities of Kresge-funded community safety and health partners in Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis and Fresno. View Website Amount $650,000 Year 2025 Location Richmond, CA Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Partnership for Southern Equity This grant will support Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions in Southwest Atlanta that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Atlanta, Georgia Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Memphis Medical District Collaborative This cross-team grant from the Health and American Cities programs will enable the Memphis Medical District Collaborative to leverage the investment practices and capital of nine member institutions to expand economic opportunity, as a pathway towards a more equitable, safe and heathy District and city. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2025 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
Health Leads Inc. This grant supports Health Leads focus on expanding equitable maternal health services, strengthen the community health worker and doula workforce with improved reimbursement, and develop community-governed AI systems. View Website Amount $1,200,000 Year 2025 Location Boston, Massachusetts Program American Cities, Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Heal Memphis This two-year implementation grant from the Health and American Cities teams will enable Heal 901 to amplify its trauma-informed and culturally responsive community violence prevention and intervention, therapeutic counseling and school-based programs to improve health outcomes in economically disadvantaged Memphis neighborhoods with high exposure to violence and limited access to health promoting resources. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2025 Location Memphis, TN Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
Funders for Justice This cross-team grant will enable Funders For Justice to strengthen partnerships between community-based social justice organizations, organizers and funders through cultural and creative practices, strategic education, training, technical assistance and funder organizing activities that mobilize philanthropic resources for more just, healthy and safer communities that include our focus cities and support our community safety investments. Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc. provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website Amount $600,000 Year 2025 Location Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Bold Futures NM This cross-team operating grant supports Bold Futures' mission to build communities rooted in dignity, respect, and self-determination for women and people of color in New Mexico and expand its collaborations with artists and cultural workers to cultivate grassroots leadership, advance campaigns, and organize to improve maternal health, reform the criminal justice system, and advance youth development. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2025 Location Albuquerque, NM Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Louisiana Public Health Institute This grant will support the launch of a National Public Health Committee to co-create a unified policy agenda with cross-sector organizations working at the intersection of public health and community well-being. Additionally, they will actively participate in the BioDistrict New Orleans project by leveraging their expertise on building collaborative data approaches between public health stakeholders and economic development leaders to achieve positive health, wellness, and economic outcomes. View Website Amount $800,000 Year 2025 Location New Orleans, Louisiana Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc. This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location New York, New York Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
UPROSE Inc. This grant will support UPROSE to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Brooklyn, New York Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Race Forward This grant provides continued general operating support for Race Forward, which works to build a multiracial democracy and a racially equitable society through interlocking strategies of narrative, power building, and institutional practice. The organization works nationally while grounding each of its initiatives in particular communities. View Website Amount $1,425,000 Year 2025 Location New York, New York Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health, Human Services Focus Area Field Building
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles This grant will support Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA), as lead partner of the LEAP-LA coalition, to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. These efforts will help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. PSR-LA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Los Angeles, California Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Partners for a Healthier Community This grant will support the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts (PHIWM), which convenes the Live Well Springfield coalition to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Springfield, Massachusetts Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area