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Kresge’s grant database allows you to search for grants awarded since 2009. You can search and filter by program area, focus area, year and location.

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University of Pennsylvania

This project support grant is a co-investment by the Detroit and the American Cities Programs in The Center for Public Service and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania (CPSP), led by former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. View Website

Amount

400000

Year

2025

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

American Cities, Detroit

Focus Area

Tulane University

This cross-team grant with the American Cities Program will support the Cowen Institute to strengthen the New Orleans College and Career Attainment Network (NOLA CCAN). NOLA CCAN is a city-wide coordinated effort focused on increasing college access and success for low-income, first-generation, and students of color. The grant supports key staff positions, expands FAFSA completion efforts, enhances counselor training, and strengthens data use across 70+ high schools and organizations. View Website

Amount

400000

Year

2025

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities, Education

Focus Area

The Aspen Institute Inc.

This project support grant to the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI) will increase funding for its role as backbone for the Community Foundation Business Model Project, which engages leaders of those institutions to re-envision how they operate (e.g., increasing donor alignment, restructuring fees) to better meet community needs. View Website

Amount

200000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

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

675000

Year

2025

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

National College Advising Corps Inc.

This cross-team grant with the American Cities Program supports the College Advising Corps’ (CAC) planning efforts to place near-peer college advisors in five Fresno high schools in fall 2026. View Website

Amount

200000

Year

2025

Location

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Program

American Cities, Education

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

500000

Year

2025

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

MDRC

This cross-team grant from the Education and American Cities Programs will support MDRC to partner with Tennessee Achieves (tnAchieves) and Southwest Tennessee Community College (SWTCC), the only community college in Memphis, to strengthen comprehensive student support systems. View Website

Amount

600000

Year

2025

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Education

Focus Area

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International Economic Development Council

This grant will help the International Economic Development Council (IDEC) develop and launch the Community Capital Investment Accelerator. View Website

Amount

670000

Year

2025

Location

Program

American Cities

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

1200000

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

400000

Year

2025

Location

Memphis, TN

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Community LIFT Corp

This cross-team grant renewal with the Arts & Culture program provides continued general operating support to Community LIFT (LIFT), a community development intermediary advancing the revitalization of underinvested neighborhoods across Memphis. View Website

Amount

600000

Year

2025

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture

Focus Area

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

800000

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

Results for America

This project grant will support Results for America’s Information and Navigation track within the Local Infrastructure Hub technical assistance initiative. This initiative helps cities win and implement competitive federal infrastructure grants that deliver local projects conceived with equity and climate goals in mind. View Website

Amount

400,000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

American Cities

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

National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.

This grant will support National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) experts to provide technical coaching and regional/topic area peer learning cohorts in a variety of subject matters including but not limited to emergency management, environmental health, data systems, policy advocacy, clinic resilience hubs, and heat-health monitoring. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Bethesda, Md.

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

This grant will support Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA) 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. LCJA 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

Fresno, California

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

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