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

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

This renewal grant strengthens two complementary cohorts within Hawaii Investment Ready's Food Systems Accelerator: one focused on Indigenous entrepreneurs and another on mission-aligned funders from government, philanthropic, and private sectors. The accelerator brings together high-potential innovators across the food system value chain committed to building a viable and resilient local food system in Hawaii. The funding also supports a new "Food as Medicine" working group to accelerate systems mapping and design efforts aimed at cultivating ecologically diverse and resilient food systems that advance health equity by addressing food access, cultural food sovereignty, and community wellbeing. View Website

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

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

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

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

This grant, in tandem with a $2 million PRI awarded in May, will enable Trend CDC to expand their model of community ownership of commercial real estate in historically disinvested Black communities - starting with Chicago and Baltimore - by establishing and implementing a health scorecard to determine the ideal tenant mix within the shopping centers they redevelop (with an emphasis on healthy food and health care services); building their organizational infrastructure, and securing legal and financial services necessary to establish community investment vehicles that gradually transition ownership to local residents. View Website

This grant will support Community Desk Chicago, a previous grantee of the American Cities program's focus on neighborhood ownership of residential and commercial properties, as they expand equitable access to capital and community ownership within Black and Latinx communities. The Community Desk model is particularly well-poised for greater scale and impact in the historically Black neighborhoods surrounding the Obama Presidential Center. View Website

This grant will support Boston Ujima Project, one of the nation’s leading democratically managed lenders dedicated to building wealth and ownership within low-income communities of color. Ujima has proven to be adept at blending investments and purchasing commitments from major anchor institutions like Boston Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital with small-dollar investments from neighborhood residents, together with a comprehensive array of business support services, to support entrepreneurship and ownership in historically disadvantaged communities. View Website

This grant enables the Private Equity Stakeholder Project to estimate the costs of private equity ownership, acquisition, and dividend recapitalization of the health care infrastructure in four cities and highlight opportunities for public and private finance models that advance health equity. This collaboration with the Social Investment practice will inform a future multi-phase project and our Community Investment for Health Equity focus area. View Website

The Roundtable uses innovative, integrated, multi-sectoral methods to create sustainable, systems-wide solutions to end the obesity pandemic. Its mission is to bring together diverse sectors and voices to end obesity. The primary goal of the Roundtable is to help decrease the prevalence of obesity through a systems approach that harmonizes mindsets and coordinates leadership and action across the multiple sectors represented within the Roundtable. View Website

This grant will enable Make the Road New York to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through the previous HEH grant, Make the Road leveraged their Community Health Worker program to support over 800 families in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island with bilingual culturally-competent health support. View Website

This grant will support New Kensington Community Development Corporation's participation in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing grantee partners. Through the previous HEH grant, Kensington integrated trauma-informed models into their core services of housing counseling, community engagement, and economic development. View Website

This grant will enable the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through their previous HEH grant, the Collaborative has focused on working with the Atlanta region’s six health systems to explore how affordable housing impacts their patients and employees, with an eye toward ultimately making a joint investment in housing. View Website

This grant will enable the Homes for All South to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through the previous HEH grant, Homes advocated for systems-level policy changes regarding the displacement of working-class families, the preservation and expansion of urban affordable housing, and the growth and replication of more sustainable non-market housing models. View Website

This grant supported by the Arts & Culture and Health programs will enable The Guild to expand their Community Stewardship Trust (CST) model of redevelopment in Southwest Atlanta to preserve housing affordability and the rich cultural identity of historically Black neighborhoods. View Website

This grant will enable Grounded Solutions Network to support its members in three to six Southern cities in acquiring, renovating, and selling single-family homes in low-cost, majority Black and Latinx zip codes in high-growth metropolitan areas. This will fill a critical gap in the housing finance ecosystem for community land trusts and other shared-equity housing models that are designed to build assets and wealth for low-income families who have been excluded from mainstream finance mechanisms while preserving affordability for future generations. View Website

This grant will support Urban Habitat as they work with a wide range of partners to build a more effective ecosystem of community land trusts (CLTs) and other shared equity housing models in the Bay Area.  While some cities in the Bay Area are well past an affordability threshold for CLTs to be a viable option, Urban Habitat is helping to establish CLTs in the remaining pockets of affordability in the region in cities such as Vallejo to create pathways for low-income families of color to become home-owners. View Website

This grant will provide operational support to Inclusive Action for the City (IAC), a small CDFI that aims to build wealth and entrepreneurship among Latinx and Black residents of Los Angeles County. View Website