This grant to the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis (WFGM) will support its ongoing efforts to align people, resources, and systems to advance social and economic mobility for families in South Memphis and is a cross-team effort with the American Cities Program. Foundation funding will strengthen WFGM’s implementation of their person-centered approach, expanding coordinated investments to increase the collective impact of partners working to improve outcomes for children, and families. View Website

This grant to Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency will support the strengthening of their financial and operational capacity through a targeted restructuring including standardizing workflows, enhancing efficiency, and reducing costs to ensure long-term financial management effectiveness across diverse funding streams. This grant accompanies a loan from the Social Investment Practice. View Website

This grant to UTEC, a National NextGen Cohort 1 member, will provide a final year of funding to expand the impact of its youth-led policymaking and systems change initiative which employs best practices in community violence intervention, organizing, and emerging adult justice movement building to advance major policy reform at the local and state levels. View Website

This grant aims to advance family economic well-being in Tennessee by offering clear, Tennessee-focused information on budgets, policies, and how decisions are made affecting economic mobility, through community engagement sessions and at least one policy summit. It will update and expand dialogue with key health and human services programs, including researching the usage of state plans to best inform systems change . The project will also foster deeper engagement with policymakers, civic leaders, journalists, advocates, and communities during a pivotal election year and leadership transition. View Website

This grant will support the New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy to engage a Senior Fellow to assess opportunities to further deepen the integration of research within its Human Rights Economy framework with an initial focus on baby bonds, budget equity, color of wealth, color of achievement, and AI to inform public engagement and field building. This is a cross-team grant with the Detroit team. View Website

This grant to The Equity Alliance (TEA), the only statewide, Black-led policy and advocacy organization in Tennessee, will support civic power building in Black communities most impacted by economic and environmental inequities. View Website

This grant recommendation will support the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) as it embeds a Two-Generation (2Gen) framework into its new Mi Family Together family preservation model, recognizing the critical connection between child well-being and family economic stability. The investment will provide evidence, implementation support, and cross-sector partnerships to help operationalize an integrated service delivery approach that addresses the needs of both children and their caregivers. As MDHHS transitions toward institutionalizing these innovations through procurement, policy, and future state funding mechanisms, philanthropic support will serve as a strategic bridge that sustains momentum. View Website

The grant will support MDC’s “State of the Southern Family” initiative, a community-grounded research and policy effort designed to center families as experts across southern states, including Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi, to surface structural misalignments in the social safety net and translate lived experience into actionable reforms that improve outcomes and reduce administrative burden. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Live6 Alliance to design, implement and manage initiatives that anchor Kresge’s investment strategy in the Livernois-McNichols district. This grant consolidates Kresge support for initiatives that will launch in 2026, including program costs and staffing capacity to implement the Resident Investment and Opportunity Fund, Neighborhood Association Operating Grants, land use pilots and planning, and commercial corridor sustainability and activation initiatives. View Website

This grant will support Leadership for a Networked World as a national program office and learning partner for a two-year, cross-city and national cohort-based initiative to co-create a post-2028 repair and reimagine playbook for a family-centered human services ecosystem. Informed by leaders with lived experience, policy practitioners, and public and private human services experts, the initiative will build a shared vision, capture place-based proof points, provide guidance for the regulatory and policy environment and supports that need reinstating, and produce a practical roadmap and toolkit—including tools to activate an augmented Human Services Value Curve. View Website

This grant to Knowledge Quest will strengthen its role as a place-based leader, supporting a full continuum of services designed to advance social and economic mobility (SEM) for families in South Memphis. Knowledge Quest is a vital anchor in the Memphis human services and human development ecology, providing a spectrum of essential supports to families with low-incomes and serving as a leader in local efforts to promote economic mobility. View Website

This grant to Hispanic Unity of Florida (HUF) supports strengthening pathways to employment, entrepreneurship, and long-term financial stability for immigrants and families with low incomes across South Florida. This funding will also enable HUF to continue participating in the Human Services Self-Directed Latino Community of Practice, and as a current member of the Human Services Employment & Well-Being Program, HUF will further deepen its impact—building on its role as a former National NextGen and Frontline member and its longstanding leadership in the human services field. View Website

This grant provides project support to Detroit Champions of Hope (DCH) to serve as an imperative lead focused on parent and family engagement and advocacy to implement the Hope Starts Here (HSH) framework. DCH will continue to equip and train parents as early childhood advocates and navigators, who in turn provide outreach and navigation supports for families and providers to access early childhood resources. Everybody Ready will be the fiscal organization for this grant. View Website

This grant will enable the National Community Action Partnership to sustain its efforts to support more than 1,000 local Community Action Agencies, with a special focus on succession planning in response to unprecedented retirements; adapting to significant policy and funding disruptions; protecting Head Start; and ensuring continuity of essential well-being and economic services for families and communities. View Website

This grant will support the Coalition On Temporary Shelter (COTS) in further strengthening its role as a technical assistance and learning partner to public sector and direct service organizations in Detroit and other Kresge priority cities. Through its focus on family-centered coaching, 2Gen strategies to advance economic mobility, and trauma-informed support, COTS will help organizations strengthen approaches that better support families’ long-term stability and opportunity. The work will also continue elevating families’ voices to inform advocacy and policy efforts. In addition to COTS' general support for families and children throughout Detroit, our support will enable them, through Peggy's Place in the Fitzgerald neighborhood, to contribute in tangible ways to community health and stability in the Live6 neighborhood. View Website

This grant will provide support to the Asset Funders Network (AFN), a member-based philanthropic organization focused on wealth and asset building. This grant builds upon our existing membership and partnership with AFN and will support research, in-person and virtual convenings at the national and regional levels, and issue-based funder groups to help grant makers connect and discover best practices, promising interventions, and actionable roles for philanthropy. View Website

This Human Services and Detroit cross-team grant will support ACCESS, a Detroit NextGen Alumni partner, in launching its Level Up Initiative, focused on helping families accelerate career pathways and increase income which ties directly to the Live 6 vision for economic success. The grant will also support expanded after-school services and provide ongoing 2Gen technical assistance to Arab American human services organizations through the National Network of Arab American Communities (NNACC). View Website

This grant will provide sponsorship funds to enable the National Child Support Engagement Association (NCSEA) to launch a Lived Experience Advisory Council, ensuring that parents and caregivers in cities who participate in the child support system have a direct voice in shaping national child support policy and practice – leading to more equitable, effective, and family-centered outcomes. View Website

This grant will support the Minnesota Budget Project’s state policy efforts to advance a more equitable and sustainable tax system, their ability to provide rapid response to nonprofits in their state and nationally to other states, and their engagement in the Human Services Cash Innovate and Activate community of practice as a state policy lead. View Website

This cross-team grant between the Detroit and Human Services programs provides project support to the ACLU to ensure continued equitable implementation of federally funded early care and education programming in communities like Detroit that depend heavily on federally funded programs. View Website