This grant will enable 20 college access and success organizations to join America’s Promise Alliance (APA), including some current and potential Kresge grantees. View Website

The Project on Predatory Student Lending will use this grant to expose the widespread deceitful practices of using third-party, for-profit Online Predatory Managers (OPMs). View Website

This grant will enable the Presidents’ Alliance for Higher Education and Immigration to improve opportunities and support for undocumented students. The Alliance will educate higher education leaders and key stakeholders about the challenges undocumented students face to access higher education. This grant will also help increase campus engagement among Texas higher education presidents and stakeholders to share better resources and strategies to support undocumented students. View Website

This grant will enable iMentor to design, implement, and refine a national strategy based on its successful New York City region model to institutionalize how it brings higher education partners into its postsecondary framework. This model will allow the organization to build new revenue-generating models with a placed-based focus by providing tech-forward tailored mentoring experiences for colleges to improve college-going and completion rates for first-generation and students of color. View Website

This grant will enable New America to undertake two research projects to combat pandemic-related declines in community college enrollment. The first will conduct case studies to profile three community colleges that have weathered enrollment declines better than the average college or have reversed their declines. The second will conduct a nationally representative survey of current community college students and stopped-out students to develop policy recommendations supporting students’ re-enrollment. View Website

This grant will enable Veterans Education Success (VES), a nonprofit and nonpartisan advocacy organization, to conduct policy-relevant research, convene policymakers and college leaders, and support military-affiliated students to engage their congressional representatives, federal agencies, and national media on how to better improve policies and supports for student veterans. View Website

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

This grant will enable Civic Nation to help ensure that millions of Americans in traditionally hard-to-reach communities learn about and take advantage of federal student debt relief programs. View Website

This grant will allow Detroit youth to access personalized youth-friendly, research-based, digital college access content via popular social media channels: text, TikTok, Kahoot!, YouTube, and a mobile-first website. Get Schooled will work with Detroit College Access Network (DCAN) and Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) to reach Detroit juniors and seniors with FAFSA support, scholarship and college essay support, and other college-going content to increase college enrollment among Detroit seniors. View Website

This grant will enable InsideTrack to launch California Reconnect to help California adults with some college but no degree to complete their credentials.  InsideTrack will partner with two Kresge grantees, the Institute for Higher Education Policy and California Competes, to conduct targeted outreach to 13,000 stopped-out students and provide advising and coaching to support their re-enrollment at 30 colleges and universities in the Inland Empire, South San Joaquin Valley (Fresno), and Sacramento. View Website

Listen4Good will support 12 direct service grantee organizations with one-to-one coaching, group learning and curated tools and resources to build their capacity to listen systematically and center student voices in decision-making. View Website

This grant supports Detroit Alumni Success Collective to pursue a strategic planning process to determine the highest impact strategies and goals over the next few years to improve the college graduation rate for students across Detroit.

This grant will allow the consulting firm Woods & Watts Effect (WWE) to facilitate a community engagement process to understand better what is needed to support students in Detroit to aspire to, apply to, persist in, and graduate from HBCUs and what might entice them to return to Detroit to begin their careers. WWE will support stakeholders in the Detroit HBCU pipeline to develop shared solutions to improve Detroit students’ success at HBCUs. View Website

This general operating grant will support LEAP Tampa Bay (fiscally sponsored by the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay) to implement the new FAFSA across two of the largest urban school districts in the country. View Website

This grant will allow John Burton Advocates for Youth to provide tools, resources, technical assistance, and a community of practice for California community colleges to implement new institutional Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) student requirements. SAP refers to the minimum academic standards, including GPA and percent of courses completed, that students must maintain to be eligible for federal, state, and institutional financial aid. View Website

Through the Center for Civic Engagement and the College of Education, Oakland University will host a two-day Teaching Race in America conference from August 8-9, 2023. View Website

This grant will enable Ithaka to expand its stranded credits “clearinghouse,” which it piloted successfully in the Akron, OH, region.   View Website

Kresge support will build on CVCF’s capacity to provide technical assistance, facilitation, data analysis, and more for the community-based organizations leading DRIVE(Developing the Region's Inclusive and Vibrant Economy) initiatives. View Website

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

This grant will support the Florida College Access Network (FCAN) in strengthening its advocacy and convening capacity to connect policymakers with stakeholders from different sectors to improve Florida’s postsecondary pathways. View Website