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
Live Again Fresno This grant from the Health and American Cities programs will support Live Again Fresno expand its trauma-informed education, mentorship, community outreach, community employment, and health promotion and community safety programs for Fresno children and families living along Parkway Drive and in the Jane Addams neighborhood of Fresno. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2024 Location Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
Jolt Initiative This cross-team grant, one of a suite of six aimed towards democracy and student voting, will support the Jolt Initiative to address the underrepresentation of young Texas Latinos in civic engagement. View Website Amount $125,000 Year 2024 Location Austin, Texas Program Arts & Culture, Education, Health Focus Area
Corbin Hill Food Project There are growing efforts to embed Produce Prescription programs (PRx) and Food as Medicine (FaM) models into state and federal health-funded programs which hold great promise to improve nutrition and health in low-wealth communities around the country. View Website Amount $800,000 Year 2024 Location Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
George Washington University This grant will provide support to the Funders Forum on Accountable Health, a group of philanthropic funders committed to collaborative national and state/local efforts to advance multi-sector, health-related partnerships centered in and accountable to communities with the aim of creating equity-focused, transformed systems that support health, well-being, and thriving communities. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2024 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Four Freedoms Fund This grant from the Health and Arts & Culture programs will support the Four Freedoms Fund to strengthen the national immigrant justice field, expand the organizational capacity, the leadership of immigrant justice organizations, and relationship building that serves nearly 150 immigrant justice groups in 45 states. View Website Amount $600,000 Year 2024 Location Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Meharry Medical College 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 Amount $150,000.00 Year 2024 Location Nashville, Tenn. Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
National Association of County and City Health Officials As the membership organization for city, county, and local health departments, NACCHO hosts an annual conference which draws thousands of local and federal health officials and other public health partners. This year’s conference will be held in Detroit. Rip will keynote the opening general session, and there will also be opportunities to highlight public health efforts across our four focus cities, including a panel session that will include Rip and Dr. Michelle Taylor, Public Health Director, Shelby County, Tennessee. View Website Amount $60,000.00 Year 2024 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism This grant will support a journalism fellowship program at the Association of Healthcare Journalists that gives scholarships to 10 journalists each year for two years, with a focus on Black, Indigenous and other journalists of color in Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans and Fresno. As part of their fellowship, selected journalists will receive one year of AHCJ membership and have the full cost of their attendance at the AHCJ yearly conference covered. View Website Amount $60,000 Year 2024 Location Columbia, Missouri Program Health Focus Area
Jolt Initiative This cross-team grant (Education, Health, and Arts & Culture), aimed towards democracy and student voting, will support the Jolt Initiative to address the underrepresentation of young Texas Latinos in civic engagement. Focused on cultivating youth leadership and community organizing, Jolt's unique approach is rooted in Latino arts and culture and empowers a Latino-led movement through civic participation and storytelling. View Website Amount $125,000 Year 2024 Location Austin, Texas Program Arts & Culture, Education, Health Focus Area
Ubuntu Village NOLA This grant from the Health and American Cities programs will support Ubuntu Village expand its trauma-informed education, training, community outreach, cultural programming, mentorship, and advocacy programs that support New Orleans residents impacted by violence, including those served through the University Medical Center hospital-based violence intervention program and Seeds of NOLA Trauma Recovery Center. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2024 Location 2021 South Dupre St, New Orleans LA 70125 Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
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
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp. This project grant supports the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America) to expand its cultural community development and health equity initiatives. Kresge funds will support training, convenings, expanding and merging its cultural community development and health equity initiatives – the Community Leadership Institute and Health Equity Lab, which will be available to its network of over 250 local community development partners. View Website Amount $725,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships
Local Initiatives Support Corporation – Memphis This grant will support LISC's efforts to create equitable, safe, and resilient communities of opportunity in Memphis. Kresge funds will help to staff LISC's Memphis office and fund two programs: the Greater Memphis Community Violence Intervention Program and the 901Help home repair program. View Website Amount $800.000 Year 2023 Location Memphis, TN Program American Cities, Health Focus Area Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans
Healthcare Anchor Network Inc. This grant will support the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) as it continues to push healthcare systems to dedicate a more significant share of their purchasing, hiring and investment power to build wealth and improve health equity in low-income communities of color. View Website Amount $950,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Community Investment for Health Equity
Verge Impact Partners, LLC This project grant to Verge Impact Partners will enable the Advancing Health Equity through Housing learning community to co-create and participate in one in-person convening, one virtual convening, and four thematic/regional gatherings. Amount $350,770 Year 2023 Location Columbus, OH Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Bold Futures NM This operating grant supports Bold Futures’ mission and work with mission-aligned artists and cultural workers to uplift resident voices, build community power, and shift harmful narratives on reproductive health, criminal justice reform, and youth development issues. View Website Amount $200,000 Year Location Albuquerque, NM Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Inclusive Capital Collective This grant will enable the growth of the Inclusive Capital Collective (ICC), a network of BIPOC-led community investment innovators (including current Kresge grantees), as they implement new models of development and ownership that repair historic patterns of racism in the financial system and build community wealth. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2023 Location Portland, OR Program Health, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Community Investment for Health Equity
American Public Health Association Inc. This grant will support the Center for Climate, Health, and Equity at the American Public Health Association in building the capacity of public health professionals to partner with community-based constituents to drive equitable climate action through strategic communications training, research, and non-partisan policy development. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2023 Location Washington, D.C. Program Education, Health Focus Area
PolicyLink This operating grant supports PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity, to work with federal, state and local partners to advance its Winning on Equity campaign and deliver results for the 100 million economically insecure people in the United States. View Website Amount $2,250,000 Year 2023 Location Oakland, California Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, Human Services, Social Investment Practice Focus Area Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships