This grant will provide support for the 2022 Detroit Homecoming, an annual event launched in 2014, by Crain’s Detroit Business to re-engage and encourage former Detroiters to invest in the redevelopment of Detroit and foster economic growth. The Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP) is serving as a partner and fiscal sponsor for the event. View Website

Capital Impact Partners (CIP) is seeking a grant to support the expansion of Detroit Equitable Development Initiative (EDI), by building out a critical project feasibility capital pool for Detroit EDI alumni that will help stabilize neighborhoods and build wealth for aspiring and emerging housing developers of color. View Website

This grant will support Culture Lab Detroit (CLD) to convene its annual series of curated, highly-visible, neighborhood-based panel discussions that foster collaboration between Detroit and the international artistic and design community. With a focus on the role of arts and culture in Detroit’s post-COVID-19 recovery, Kresge support will enable CLD to target its 2022-2023 programs in three neighborhoods. The Villages, Live6, and Southwest Detroit. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy to maintain and operate the Marygrove campus in northwest Detroit. This support is part of Kresge’s ongoing support for the Marygrove Transformation Project, and supports the Marygrove Conservancy’s day-to-day operations focused on facility maintenance, staffing, security, utilities, and other functions critical to the operations of the campus. View Website

The German Marshall Fund of the United States will resume the transatlantic leadership exchange programs in Detroit that were suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. Kresge funding will enable the Detroit cohort selected through a competitive citywide application process in March 2020 and March 2021 to complete their participation in the program, as well as: (1) enabling Wayne State University to host two, annual European delegation meetings in Detroit; and (2) supporting the involvement of Detroit alumni in the Fund's seminars, briefings, and leader retreats. View Website

The Funders’ Collaborative for Youth Organizing will continue to strengthen the national infrastructure of youth organizing, including fostering a talent pipeline for racial justice organizing and deepening their partnership with Detroit-based racial justice organizations. The Collaborative will also identify how arts and cultural practices can be incorporated into the work of youth organizing. View Website

The City of Detroit's Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship will develop projects in which arts and cultural programs contribute to improved physical and social conditions in neighborhoods, using grants, cross-sector partnerships, and connections to ongoing city programming to promote the integration of arts and culture into public and civic decision-making. View Website

This grant provides project support to IFF to manage the implementation of the Hope Starts Here framework. IFF has been acting as a fiscal sponsor for Hope Starts Here since 2019, but will strengthen its role moving forward to serve as a backbone organization to fully manage the framework’s implementation. View Website

Detroit Food Commons (DFC) is a community-based effort to increase equity in Detroit’s food systems. DFC is a collaboration between Develop Detroit (DDI), a nonprofit real estate development organization, and the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), a nonprofit organization that works to advance food justice. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy to maintain and operate the Marygrove campus in northwest Detroit. This support is part of Kresge’s ongoing support for the Marygrove Transformation Project, and supports the Marygrove Conservancy’s day-to-day operations focused on facility maintenance, staffing, security, utilities and other functions critical to the operations of the campus. View Website

This grant will support Kresge’s membership in the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, a national coalition of 30 foundations and corporate funders that are committed to supporting early childhood policy, practice, research and programming across the United States. View Website

This project grant will fund Green Living Science to support a city of Detroit Green Task Force research trip to Seattle, Washington, to build foundational knowledge across the multi-sector attendees to advance and implement renewable energy, recycling, composting, transportation, stormwater management, and climate resilience practices in Detroit. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to Michigan Community Resources, a key intermediary organization supporting the community development sector in Detroit. View Website

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan will manage the Oral Health Funders Collaborative that will invest in improving access to oral screening for Detroit children before they enter the early childhood development system. The collaborative will involve Head Start, the Detroit Public Schools, School Based Health Centers, Community-based clinics, and funders to ensure that providers have appropriate staffing, training, resources, and equipment to provide effective dental screening and services. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to Michigan Future Inc (MFI), a policy advocacy organization focused on statewide policy to improve economic well-being of Michiganders. This grant will enable MFI to expand its policy advocacy efforts for its Rising Income for All campaign, focused on expanding the social safety net and increasing wages for Michigan’s lowest-wage workers. View Website

This grant will support the greater Detroit chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP-GDC) to sponsor the 31st annual National Philanthropy Day program. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to Community Development Advocates of Detroit, a key intermediary organization supporting the community development sector in Detroit. View Website

Planet Detroit will implement the Detroit Energy & Environment Reporting Fellowship, which supports and develops a pipeline of Detroit-based, BIPOC journalists with deep community roots to cover environmental and climate related issues that disproportionately impact Black and Brown communities. View Website

This grant provides project support to Midtown Detroit Inc (MDI) to expand arts and cultural public space programming, public space activations, and small business growth efforts to support the ongoing growth of Detroit’s New Center and Milwaukee Junction neighborhoods. View Website

Michigan Community Resources will continue to act as the capacity- and cohort-building partner for the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus (KIP:D+) initiative. It will provide ongoing technical assistance, coaching, and cohort-based supports for past KIP:D grantees with active projects and will support the current round's applicants and grantees (Round 8, with twenty awards to be announced in the spring of 2023). View Website