Through this grant, over the course of three years, the Urban Institute will work on comprehensive community development strategies with cross-sector teams in 3-5 chronically underinvested cities. The work will encompass reparative strategies and community benefits agreements; place-based community development finance ecosystems and cooperative business models; and equitable preparedness via Community Disaster Resilience Zones. View Website

This grant will support University of Venda For Science and Technology (UNIVEN) to join the Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”) initiative, which seeks to expand the national student success network from seven to 20 of South Africa’s 26 universities. Siyaphumelela 3.0 builds upon reform efforts pioneered in both the United States and South Africa and, by expanding to nearly 80% of the country’s universities, aims to nationalize evidence-based student success goals to increase South Africa’s overall postsecondary attainment rate and, ultimately, enhance individual social mobility and South Africa’s overall prosperity. View Website

This grant will support the University of Johannesburg (UJ) to join the Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”) initiative, which seeks to expand the national student success network from seven to 20 of South Africa’s 26 universities. Siyaphumelela 3.0 builds upon reform efforts pioneered in both the United States and South Africa and, by expanding to nearly 80% of the country’s universities, aims to nationalize evidence-based student success goals to increase South Africa’s overall postsecondary attainment rate and, ultimately, enhance individual social mobility and South Africa’s overall prosperity. View Website

This grant will support the Century Foundation (TCF) to highlight the need for equitable state funding and appropriations for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). TCF will develop a communications strategy using data, key messages, and information to push for systemic changes. View Website

This grant will support Soledad O’Brien Productions, with support from The Hechinger Report, to continue to investigate the effect of the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in college admissions on educational opportunities for racial and ethnic minorities. View Website

This general operating grant will support Southwest Fresno Development Corporation (SWFDC)’s community development efforts focused on homeownership education programs, affordable housing development, and community engagement in Southwest Fresno. View Website

This grant will support the third cohort of the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment’s (Rose) Grassroots Leadership Fund (GLF), a two-year regranting program that targets grassroots partners of grantees funded through Kresge’s Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS) Initiative. View Website

This grant will support Rhodes University to join the Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”) initiative, which seeks to expand the national student success network from seven to 20 of South Africa’s 26 universities. Siyaphumelela 3.0 builds upon reform efforts pioneered in both the United States and South Africa and, by expanding to nearly 80% of the country’s universities, aims to nationalize evidence-based student success goals to increase South Africa’s overall postsecondary attainment rate and, ultimately, enhance individual social mobility and South Africa’s overall prosperity. View Website

This grant will support the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to foster stronger connections and alignment between state legislators and college promise program leaders to build on the momentum from the CoPro2.0 initiative. View Website

This cross-team grant supports the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN), a collective of over 100 grassroots environmental justice (EJ) organizations. NBEJN will partner with the HBCU Climate Change Consortium to engage a network of place-based and national racial justice organizations to build the national infrastructure of the EJ movement. View Website

Meharry Medical College will synthesize emerging research about the persistent structural and institutional barriers to health equity and propose a framework that identifies strategies to remove those barriers and replace them with public health practices that ensure a more equitable distribution of opportunities and resources. View Website

This grant supports the American Indian College Fund’s efforts to assist 30 tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) to craft strategic enrollment management plans to boost Native student postsecondary enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. View Website

This grant will support the inaugural class of the Clean & Equitable Energy Development Certificate Program offered by the Yale Center for Environmental Justice and Yale Center for Business and the Environment. View Website

This grant will support first-time grantee Vaal University of Technology (VUT) to join the Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”) initiative, which seeks to expand the national student success network from seven to 20 of South Africa’s 26 universities. View Website

This grant will support the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), to continue as part of the next phase of the Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”) initiative, which seeks to expand the national student success network from seven to 20 of South Africa’s 26 universities. View Website

This grant will support T P Ricks LLC’s work in collaboration with the current grantee, Communications Across Barriers, to continue to provide poverty informed training and community engagement efforts throughout Louisiana’s human services sector. View Website

This grant will support Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) to develop a plan for possible full inclusion in the next phase of the Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”) initiative. View Website

This general operating grant renews support to the School of Arts and Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza and its mission to catalyze creativity and empower the East San Jose, California community. View Website

This cross-team grant supports Historic Clayborn Temple's operations and programs that use creativity and cultural strategies to cultivate a sense of belonging, safety, love, joy, and abundance in its South Memphis neighborhood, citywide and beyond. In addition, the grant will advance plans to develop a South Memphis Civil Rights Cultural District, comprised of 17 properties, in the neighborhood surrounding the Temple. View Website

This grant will support the work of the Clean & Equitable Buildings Collaborative, to support the buildout and scaleup of the technical-assistance ecosystem to generate market demand for building decarbonization projects, and direct technical assistance to states in planning the local market-building activity needed to land Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) resources in communities of color and communities with low wealth. View Website