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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

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

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