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
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