This project grant supports Americans for the Arts, the national arts advocacy and local arts service association, to research the social impacts of arts and culture in cities.  View Website

In alignment with the Arts & Culture Program’s interest in national field-building projects that enhance the skills and effectiveness of practitioners in low-income urban communities, ArtPlace recognizes the importance of strengthening systems and developing methods that support the field. This project grant will support two of the final three years of ArtPlace America’s core work to elevate awareness of Creative Placemaking. View Website

This grant supports Artspace Projects, the Minneapolis-based national arts developer, for the next phase of a field building project launched two years ago in Detroit. The pilot project provided technical assistance and coaching services in real estate development for arts and community development projects, financing and management counsel to a cohort of 11 arts and community development organizations.  View Website

This grant supports the Association for Community Design, a national membership group of individuals and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning. This grant will enable the Association to leverage its equity-based platform to implement three programs: Convenings, Community Design Fellowship, and Research Initiatives. View Website

This general operating grant will support CatchLight’s ongoing effort to promote and resource a national visual storytelling ecosystem. View Website

This 2-year general operating grant will support CatchLight’s ongoing effort to promote and resource a national visual storytelling ecosystem. View Website

CEL Education Fund (also known as CultureStrike) supports artist fellowships, convenings and project incubation, as well as arts integration training for organizations focused on climate, immigration and gender and racial justice. This general operating support grant will allow continued expansion of national and regional infrastructure for artists of marginalized backgrounds to carry out social change work. View Website

The only national nonprofit solely dedicated to eliminating blight, Community Progress works to ensure properties viewed as liabilities are transformed into assets that benefit vulnerable populations. This three-year grant provides project support to the center’s work to improve policies and programs that tackle vacant, abandoned and deteriorated properties in Detroit to strengthen traditional residential neighborhoods. View Website

This cross-team project grant supports the Center for Community Progress’ efforts to increase equitable land and housing policy collaboration throughout the state of Michigan and integration of Creative Placemaking practices across its national network. View Website

This project grant supports the refinement of Define American’s Immigrant Artist Fellowship's 2020 and 2021 cohorts, which focus on the skills and visibility of immigrant artists, especially those living without documentation, who are committed to shifting local and national immigration narratives. View Website

This grant supports the continued adoption of Creative Placemaking into Enterprise's National Strategic Initiatives, focusing on full integration of culture and creativity within Enterprise National Initiatives and development of tools and resources.  View Website

This operating grant supports PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity, to work with federal, state and local partners to advance its Winning on Equity campaign and deliver results for the 100 million economically insecure people in the United States. View Website

This project grant to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies supports a two-day National Endowment for the Arts/White House Summit on Integrating Arts and Culture in Civic Infrastructure for Healthy, Equitable Communities. View Website

This project grant supports the National Performance Network’s efforts to fortify the role of arts and culture in movement building. Kresge funds will enable the Network to provide financial resources for local projects, curated coaching, peer convenings and collective learning so its members, including organizations, artists and culture workers, can more deeply integrate with racial and social justice movements in their communities. View Website

Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) is a national professional membership organization for grant makers supporting the arts and arts-related activities. This three-year grant will provide general operating and membership support to renew and maintain infrastructure, to assist GIA in expanding and leveraging its platforms relevant to the progression of the field of philanthropy. View Website

This general operating grant supports Harness' mission to work with a community of cultural organizers to use the power of storytelling to imagine and create a more equitable world. Harness works with artists and cultural strategists on local and national campaigns for racial, gender and civic justice. Kresge funds will support personnel, local artists, cultural strategists and creative programming and operations. View Website

This grant amendment will enable Juxtaposition Arts (Juxtaposition) to continue its role as a national Creative Placemaking exemplar working at the nexus of arts and community development and will support a new Learning Institute. The Institute, acting as a consultancy, will provide a platform to share learnings from its extensive work using arts and culture as a driver of neighborhood-based equitable development.  View Website

Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) collaborates with community groups to identify local needs and mobilize capital and expertise to get programs running and projects built. This two-year grant supports its Creative Placemaking program and will use lessons learned from its pilot initiatives to regrant, deploy complementary loan capital, and capture research indicators in three specific locations linking Creative Placemaking to the LISC National Institute. View Website

With residents and partners, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) forges long-term local relationships to equip communities with the capital, strategy and know-how to become places where people thrive. This project grant supports the national LISC office to continue its Creative Placemaking initiative. View Website

This cross-team project grant supports the National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations’ Grounding Values research, which seeks to explore the sector's capacity to increase equitable practices and support inclusive growth in communities. Kresge funds will support project personnel, artists and community engagement, the development of five issue briefs, and related promotion. View Website