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Grants Awarded

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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Eastside Arts Alliance

This general operating grant supports the EastSide Arts Alliance and its mission to use art for community empowerment and cultural development. View Website

Amount

$300,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Women's Foundation For A Greater Memphis

Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis

The purpose of this grant is to support the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis to strengthen and enhance their programmatic and policy efforts to advance closing the women’s wealth gap for women of color in Memphis. View Website

Amount

$500,000

Year

2021

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Project Row Houses

This general operating grant will support Project Row Houses' (Project Row's) Creative Placemaking activities and ongoing participation in Kresge’s Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) learning community. View Website

Amount

$350,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Houston

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

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Nation Outside

The grant will support the Human Services and Detroit Programs' partnership with Nation Outside (NO) to implement a civic engagement, social cohesion, and power-building effort primarily with fathers of color in Detroit. Safe and Just Michigan is the fiscal sponsor for NO. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2021

Location

Lansing, Michigan

Program

Detroit, Human Services

Focus Area

Yakima Valley Conference of Governments

This grant will support the Yakima Valley Council of Governments (Yakima) to to identify and mitigate unhealthy and unsafe homes in Toppenish, Washington. Yakima will work with community and City representatives to undertake a regional housing study and a housing action plan. View Website

Amount

$400,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Yakima, Washington

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Opportunity Finance Network

This grant provides funding to sponsor Opportunity Finance Network’s (OFN) 37th annual conference; the premier convening for the community development financial institutions (CDFI) industry. OFN is the leading national network of CDFIs, which are mission-driven lenders that align capital with social and economic justice View Website

Amount

$50,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

Focus Area

MQVN Community Development Consortium

This grant provides general operating support for Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Consortium (MQVN CDC), the primary community development corporation undertaking physical redevelopment and serving the needs of low-income Vietnamese-American, African-American, Latinx and/or immigrant communities in the New Orleans East community of Village de l’Est. View Website

Amount

$400,000.00

Year

2021

Location

New Orleans, LA

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Place-Based Community Development

Marygrove Conservancy

This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy for its ongoing stewardship and maintenance of the Marygrove campus. View Website

Amount

$1,015,000

Year

2021

Location

Detroit, Mich.

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Transformative Project/Marygrove

Marygrove Conservancy

This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy for its ongoing stewardship and maintenance of the Marygrove campus. This grant is part of Kresge’s ongoing commitment to a bold vision for the revitalization of the Marygrove campus as a neighborhood hub for education, arts and culture, and economic mobility. View Website

Amount

$1,000,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Detroit, Mich.

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Transformative Project/Marygrove

M-1 RAIL

This grant will provide general operating support for M-1 RAIL (M-1) to assist during the suspension of operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. View Website

Amount

$1,000,000

Year

2021

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Live6 Alliance

This grant provides general operating support to the Live6 Alliance, a community development corporation serving commercial corridors and residential neighborhoods within the Livernois-McNichols geography of Northwest Detroit View Website

Amount

$950,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Hope Community, Inc.

This grant would support Hope Community Inc., to implement and expand its Community Ownership Project (COP), and steward and support healthy, safe and resilient neighborhood spaces in the Phillips Community in Minnesota. This strategy grew out of a community-led process with residents that was initially supported by a planning grant from the Health Team’s Advancing Health Equity through Housing funding opportunity. View Website

Amount

$400,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Swipe Out Hunger

This grant will enable Swipe Out Hunger to hire the consultants needed to merge with the College and University Food Bank Alliance. One in three college students experience hunger, and challenges with meeting basic needs can be a major impediment to persistence and completion - an issue the pandemic has exacerbated. By merging, these two organizations will achieve greater scale and responsiveness to the needs of students and campuses post-pandemic. View Website

Amount

$100,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Los Angeles, California

Program

Education

Focus Area

Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success

Detroit Parks Coalition

This grant provides general operating support to the Detroit Parks Coalition (DPC) for its launch phase, during which it will hire full-time staff and advance its mission to deliver outstanding park experiences for Detroiters in all parts of the city. View Website

Amount

$180,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

DAISA Enterprises

This grant will support the development of a Community of Practice and Action (CoPA), a practitioner-led network that will include members of Kresge’s Fresh, Local and Equitable initiative (FreshLo) network, other Equitable Food-Oriented Development practitioners, and members of ArtPlace’s Arts-Infused Food System community. View Website

Amount

$150,000.00

Year

2021

Location

South Hadley, Massachusetts

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Connecticut Fair Housing Center

This grant recommends support for two streams of work led by the Connecticut Fair Housing Center (the Center) that grew out of a community-wide process supported by an initial planning grant from the Health team's Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) opportunity: 1) expanding tenant rights and advocacy efforts in census tracts with high degrees of housing instability; and 2) leveraging current research to work with municipalities to improve their response to housing code violations. View Website

Amount

$400,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Hartford, Connecticut

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Community Services Unlimited

Community Services Unlimited

This grant will support the development and deployment of a Technical Assistance network of BIPOC experts and allies in healthy food system strategy implementation by the Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) Collaborative. View Website

Amount

$210,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Los Angeles, California

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Bread for the City Inc.

This grant will provide support for a community organizing campaign with residents in six public housing properties to address improving living and health conditions. View Website

Amount

$400,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Health

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

Black Sovereignty Food Coalition

Black Food Sovereignty Coalition

This grant will support Black Food Sovereignty Coalition’s development of its Black Food Economy Project and Community Co-Pack facility, by creating a local Black-owned network of food opportunities in Portland, OR, and the surrounding area. View Website

Amount

$50,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Portland, Oregon

Program

Focus Area

Community-Driven Solutions

The Collective (CLTV)

This general operating grant will support The Collective’s Creative Placemaking activities and its participation in Kresge’s Creative Practice cohort. The Collective's mission is to elevate Black artists, empower Black communities and shift the culture of Memphis to be recognized as a cultural beacon of the South. View Website

Amount

$300,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Strengthen the Equitable Creative Placemaking Field

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