Funding will support BULK Media Lab, which will reimagine what art + technology look like in a hands-on practical way that works for artists and the community. View Website

The funds will improve Bailey Park, a community-led initiative to build an outdoor park that will provide residents with a safe gathering place that promotes physical activity and community wellness. The project will include grading and leveling 15 lots, repairing the park’s sidewalk to make it accessible for all residents, and installing an amphitheater for events and programs. View Website

With this grant, Planet Ant is planning an annual Hamtramck Electronic Music and Arts Festival that would take place on Memorial Day weekend. View Website

This summer, Audubon will initiate a community-led planning process for activating greenspaces and vacant lots in SW Detroit, including 12 recently acquired vacant lots surrounding Garage Cultural’s existing space. View Website

The purpose of this project is to develop an innovative relationship abuse and sexual violence prevention curriculum for young people. The curriculum will include media literacy, tips for helping a friend, and tools for healing after experiencing abuse. View Website

Since the summer of 2021, DAPCEP has hosted a back-to-school fair in the Cody Rouge Community to build trust with neighbors and community members. These funds would be used to build on this initial large-scale engagement experience and lay the foundation for visioning work with this community to identify their priorities for STEM-focused academic programs in their community. View Website

This project will build a small community park where residents can gather, host workshops and events. The park will include a tool library that can be accessed free-of-charge by all community members. View Website

This grant provides funding to design and plan the development of a neighborhood-based, arts-infused public plaza and artists market in Southwest Detroit. The community-based Southwest Detroit youth group promotes the holistic development of young people in urban settings through relationship building, community education and passion-driven projects. View Website

The community-based Southwest Detroit youth group promotes the holistic development of young people in urban settings through relationship building, community education and passion-driven projects. This grant provides project support to Young Nation to transform a vacant corner lot in Southwest Detroit into a community-designed park for informal gatherings, recreation and formal programming as part of Round 5 of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative. View Website

This grant will support the transformation of a vacant lot and commercial building at the intersection of Avis and Elsmere streets into an arts-infused public plaza and artists market. The community-based Southwest Detroit youth-centered organization promotes the holistic development of young people in urban settings through relationship building, community education and passion-driven projects. This grant is part of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative. View Website

Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation has served the Woodbridge neighborhood since 2002 through community engagement, community programming, and the physical redevelopment of buildings and public spaces. This grant provides project support to Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation to reactivate an abandoned elementary school into a neighborhood hub and center for resident engagement as part of Round 5 of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative.    View Website

This 18-month grant supports implementation of the Walk Woodbridge plan to calm traffic and improve connectivity within the Woodbridge Neighborhood and to broader Midtown. The Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corp.’s mission is to create a diverse vibrant residential and commercial urban environment in its namesake neighborhood. View Website

Under this grant from the sixth round of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit, Voices for Earth Justice will support a neighborhood steering committee as well as a community engagement strategy to co-design neighborhood vision and land use plan in partnership with the Hope Park neighborhood.

This grant supports community planning for the expansion and long-term stewardship of Dolores Bennett Park in the North End neighborhood. The community service and development organization works to facilitate, coordinate and ignite educational, economic and community growth and investment in the Central Woodward-North End neighborhood of Detroit. View Website

Urban Neighborhood Initiatives (UNI) is dedicated to building, safe and thriving environments where people, irrespective of income, want to live, work, and play. This grant provides project support to UNI to develop a Youth Activities Hub in the Springwells neighborhood as part of Round 5 of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative. View Website

This grant will focus on the build-out of the Community Peace and Justice Wing of UNI’s Lawndale Center as a hub for programs focused on increasing safety and quality of life for residents, including alternative approaches to crime reduction. Focused on neighborhood revitalization in a 23-block area in Southwest Detroit, this community-based agency provides youth-development and recreational services, literacy and GED classes in Spanish and English, computer classes, day-care and after-school programs. This grant is part of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative. View Website

Funding enables Archolab, an architectural-research collaborative, and Burnside Farm in Detroit’s Banglatown neighborhood to collaborate on Afterhouse, a pilot project to transform a blighted home into a passive solar subterranean greenhouse for year-round food production and community engagement. View Website

This grant, part of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative, supports planning for the activation of open spaces in the Fitzgerald neighborhood between University of Detroit Mercy and Marygrove College, often known as the “College Core.” The planning effort is led by the Detroit Collaborative Design Center. The university delivers student-centered undergraduate and graduate education in an urban context, and is home to the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, a community outreach program of the School of Architecture. View Website

Grant funding will support the implementation of open-space programming and creative alley revitalization in the Fitzgerald neighborhood in the Livernois-McNichols area where the Live6 Alliance is active. The university delivers student-centered undergraduate and graduate education in an urban context. View Website

This grant supports the transformation of a highly vacant, one-half mile stretch of Barham Street in the Morningside neighborhood into an innovative public greenway and “farmway” on Detroit’s east side. U SNAP BAC provides safe, decent and affordable homes, and promotes economic growth and neighborhood improvement for low-to-moderate income families. View Website