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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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Movement Strategy Center

This project grant will support the Movement Strategy Center in partnering with the Arts & Culture Program to develop and administer Culture of Justice 2.0, a three-year initiative focused on cultural and community resilience. View Website

Amount

6000000

Year

2025

Location

Oakland, California

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

National Housing Institute/Shelterforce

This cross-team renewal grant, between Arts and Culture and Health, will support Shelterforce as they continue in-depth, independent journalism highlighting health equity, creative placemaking, and community development approaches that interrupt systemic inequities in healthcare, education, housing instability, and economic opportunities throughout the country. View Website

Amount

390000

Year

2025

Location

Montclair, N.J.

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Community Health Ecosystems

RYSE

This cross-team grant from the Health and Arts & Culture programs will enable the RYSE Center to build its capacity as a national field building leader in creative, culturally affirming and community-centered healing strategies that support the collective, multi-modal learning and dissemination activities of Kresge-funded community safety and health partners in Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis and Fresno. View Website

Amount

650000

Year

2025

Location

Richmond, CA

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Community Health Ecosystems

Partnership for Southern Equity

This grant will support Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions in Southwest Atlanta that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. View Website

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

National Public Housing Museum

This operating grant supports the National Public Housing Museum to continue programs that integrate creativity, housing justice, and economic empowerment such as cooperative entrepreneurship, workforce training, oral histories of public housing residents, and storytelling as tools for achieving social and civic outcomes, as well as support for artists, activists, and cultural workers in addressing inequities in housing and related issues. View Website

Amount

$280,000

Year

2025

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Juxtaposition Arts

This grant renews operating support to Juxtaposition Arts, a youth-focused organization in North Minneapolis that works at the intersection of design, community development, and social enterprise and pairs young people with paid apprenticeships to foster their creative skills, community leadership, and professional readiness. View Website

Amount

280000

Year

2025

Location

Minneapolis, Minn.

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Community LIFT Corp

This cross-team grant renewal with the Arts & Culture program provides continued general operating support to Community LIFT (LIFT), a community development intermediary advancing the revitalization of underinvested neighborhoods across Memphis. View Website

Amount

600000

Year

2025

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Bold Futures NM

This cross-team operating grant supports Bold Futures' mission to build communities rooted in dignity, respect, and self-determination for women and people of color in New Mexico and expand its collaborations with artists and cultural workers to cultivate grassroots leadership, advance campaigns, and organize to improve maternal health, reform the criminal justice system, and advance youth development. View Website

Amount

400000

Year

2025

Location

Albuquerque, NM

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

West Harlem Environmental Action Inc.

This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

UPROSE Inc.

This grant will support UPROSE to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Brooklyn, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Race Forward

This grant provides continued general operating support for Race Forward, which works to build a multiracial democracy and a racially equitable society through interlocking strategies of narrative, power building, and institutional practice. The organization works nationally while grounding each of its initiatives in particular communities. View Website

Amount

1,425,000

Year

2025

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health, Human Services

Focus Area

Field Building

Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles

This grant will support Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA), as lead partner of the LEAP-LA coalition, to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. These efforts will help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. PSR-LA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

Amount

$675,000

Year

2025

Location

Los Angeles, California

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Partners for a Healthier Community

This grant will support the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts (PHIWM), which convenes the Live Well Springfield coalition to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Springfield, Massachusetts

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.

This grant will support National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) experts to provide technical coaching and regional/topic area peer learning cohorts in a variety of subject matters including but not limited to emergency management, environmental health, data systems, policy advocacy, clinic resilience hubs, and heat-health monitoring. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Bethesda, Md.

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

This grant will support Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. LCJA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

Amount

$675,000

Year

2025

Location

Fresno, California

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Homewood Children’s Village

This grant will support the Homewood Children's Village (HCV) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners.

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Health Care Without Harm

This grant supports Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) in providing national and global leadership at the intersection of climate, health, and equity to transform its network to reduce its environmental footprint and become a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice. Through its Place Based Initiative (PBI) program, HCWH is partnering with health systems (1600 hospitals across 50 states), government, and communities to shift policies, markets, and climate and health equity work practices with a deep focus in Detroit, Miami, Boston, and the San Francisco Bay Area. View Website

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Go! Austin/Vamos! Austin

This grant will support the Go Austin Vamos Austin (GAVA) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Austin, Texas

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication

This grant supports The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health (Consortium) that serves as a national convener that mobilizes health professionals to make health and equity central to climate solutions by bridging the gap between clinical expertise and community-led climate action through public messaging, media engagement, and policymaker outreach. George Mason University provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

Amount

660000

Year

2025

Location

Fairfax, VA

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Environmental Health Coalition

This grant will support the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. EHC is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity  initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

Amount

$675,000

Year

2025

Location

National City, Calif.

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

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