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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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One Nation/One Project

This cross-team Arts & Culture and Health grant supports the One Nation/One Project, a two-year national arts and health initiative examining the role of arts and culture in repairing the social fabric and contributing to healthier outcomes. View Website

Amount

$1,000,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Field Building

Island Press – Center for Resource Economics

This grant supports Island Press’ efforts to inform the public and policymakers of climate challenges and solutions and to bolster urban practitioners’ abilities to incorporate climate mitigation and adaptation into their work. View Website

Amount

$700,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

GreenLatinos

With this grant GreenLatinos will strengthen the capacity of cross-sectoral, Latino/a/x leaders to advance climate-resilience policies and practices centered in equity and justice. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

WeSolar

This grant will enable WeSolar, the first Black-female-owned community-solar-power company in the United States, to strengthen its capacity to support grassroot groups, nonprofits, health organizations and churches seeking to implement solar projects. View Website

Amount

$50,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

People’s Climate Innovation Center

This grant will support the People’s Climate Innovation Center to deepen capacity, collaboration, and alignment in the climate-resilience field by managing and growing a national peer-learning network of community groups; cultivating the next generation of climate leaders of color through professional-development programs; and facilitating cross-sector collaboration to create more effective and equitable relationships between local government and community organizations. View Website

Amount

$800,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

People’s Solar Energy Fund

This renewal grant will enable the People’s Solar Energy Fund (PSEF) to support its network of community-based solar developers (CBSDs) in leveraging federal resources and expanding essential capacity building and technical assistance for community-led solar projects. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2024

Location

Albany, NY

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Multisolving Institute

The grant supports the Multisolving Institute in building out the Framework for Long-term Whole-system Equity-based Reflection (FLOWER), a facilitation app that assists leaders generate multisolving solutions that simultaneously address climate change, racial justice, health, and biodiversity. View Website

Amount

$46,500

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Environmental Leadership Program

This grant will provide tie-off support to the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), whose RAY Clean Energy Diversity Fellowship Program provides recent college graduates of color with fellowships at organizations committed to advancing climate action to equip them with substantive work experience, tools, and guidance to become climate leaders. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2024

Location

Greenbelt, Maryland

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Alliance For Affordable Energy

This grant renews general operating support for the Alliance for Affordable Energy (Alliance), an advocate for fair, affordable, and environmentally responsible energy policy in New Orleans and Louisiana. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment

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

Amount

$320,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

National Black Environmental Justice Network

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

Amount

$700,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

American Indian College Fund

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

Amount

$468,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Denver, Colorado

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Collectrify

This grant will support Collectrify, a fund that awards grants to frontline organizations working to shift buildings and communities from fossil fuels to clean electricity. View Website

Amount

$500,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Washington, DC

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Healthy Gulf

This grant will renew general operating support to Healthy Gulf, whose staff will support robust community engagement in New Orleans’ and Louisiana’s climate-resilience planning and decision-making, including consideration of economic, environmental, and social justice factors. View Website

Amount

$125,000.00

Year

2024

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Harness Community

This operating support grant supports Harness Community's mission to convene artists, activists, and movement leaders to educate, inspire, and activate a community of cultural organizers to use the power of storytelling to create a more equitable world. View Website

Amount

$300,000.00

Year

2024

Location

West Hollywood, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Field Building

Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc.

This grant will provide support to the Health Affairs journal (Health Affairs) in its efforts to be more intentional about the content it publishes on health equity and the multiple factors that impact it, such as discrimination, workforce diversity, health disparities, and the social determinants of health. View Website

Amount

$900,000

Year

2024

Location

Millwood, Va.

Program

Environment, Health

Focus Area

Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition

This grant will support the Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition, a membership organization that develops and implements equitable strategies to achieve zero carbon emissions from the Midwest building sector by 2050. The organization convenes stakeholders and allies to advance a coordinated, regional strategy that centers racial and economic equity. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2024

Location

2510 Telegraph Road Suite L, Unit 228, Bloomfield Township, MI 48302

Program

Environment

Focus Area

EcoAdapt

This grant supports the 2024 National Adaptation Forum, which is the premier conference for climate change adaptation knowledge exchange and field building. Kresge funds will support the hosting of the event and subsidize travel and registration costs for speakers and participants from underrepresented groups. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2024

Location

Bainbridge Island, Washington

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Inclusiv

This grant will enable Inclusiv and its Puerto Rican partner to organize, develop and submit a collective application for $6 million in Mitigation Community Development Block Grant funding to fund up to 30 resiliency centers and use learnings to inform a collective response to a request for information from the Department of Energy about how best to deploy $1 billion set aside for roof-top and microgrid solar in Puerto Rico. View Website

Amount

$70,000

Year

2023

Location

New York, New York

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Field Building

Greenprint Partners

This grant will enable Greenprint Partners to invest in staff development as it grows from 10 to 20 full-time employees in 2023. View Website

Amount

$51,000

Year

2023

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Field Building

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