This tie-off general operating grant to The Rebuild Foundation supports its continued use of arts, creative programming and place-based cultural and land stewardship as a primary tool for community development and coalition building in the Greater Grand Crossing, a predominantly Black neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. View Website

This grant renews operating support to the School of Arts & Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza, a community arts center, cultural convener, and creativity hub, to affirm identity, foster belonging and mobilize residents and businesses in the East San Jose community. View Website

This grant supports the continuation of the Culture & Community Power Fund, a funder collaborative and adaptive learning lab advancing the role of culture as a key driver of community change. Launched by Kresge and two other funders in 2021, it provides unrestricted awards to place-based organizations that use creative solutions to build community power and advance resident-driven priorities. The Fund facilitates learning across grantees, geographies and amongst philanthropic partners. This grant, which includes a new partnership with the American Cities Program, allows the Fund to expand by including cross-sector funders in different geographies that support immigrant and Indigenous communities in the Midwest, the West (Alaska and Hawaii), and the South. View Website

This grant renews operating support to La Mujer Obrera to strengthen social cohesion and leverage culture and creativity as integral strategies in advancing environmental health, education, housing and anti-displacement in the Chamizal neighborhood in El Paso, TX. View Website

This operating grant renews support to Communities United for Reparative Youth Justice to continue its community organizing and coalition building efforts through traditional and cultural practices, civic education and activism training with young people impacted by the criminal, immigration and foster care systems in Oakland, CA. Its healing and creative practices include culturally-rooted arts and healing programs, engaging young people to use art for direct actions and uplifting local artists in neighborhood development projects. View Website

The Fidelity Equity Dignity Collective is a national network working to transform Food as Medicine from a top-down, clinically driven model to one centered on community leadership, cultural relevance, and structural equity. The Collective will expand its Community of Practice & Power for peer learning and advocacy, lead a technology discovery process to support community capacity and data sovereignty, and adapt its Community Workbook with managed care organizations to embed community-centered practices in Medicaid and health systems. View Website

This cross-team grant renews support for the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development to mobilize and strengthen over 150 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community-based organizations in low‑income communities across the U.S through coalition-building and creative placemaking initiatives. View Website

This project grant provides lead sponsorship for the 2026 Grantmakers in the Arts national conference in Memphis, TN. Conference programming will showcase emergent place-based strategies, local and regional cultural sites, and practitioners from Memphis and the South to expose arts funders from across the country to the depth of creative practices in this region. View Website

This cross-team grant renews operating support to Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing to continue its grantmaking, capacity building, field convening, research and learning programs focused on advancing a strong, interconnected, and well-resourced youth and intergenerational organizing field, including those applying arts and cultural strategies. View Website

This operating grant supports Eastside Arts Alliance to continue to unite art with activism for community empowerment and development through cultural programming on its campus which includes a theater, studios, affordable housing, and nonprofit storefront spaces. View Website

This project grant supports Another World Exists to build on the cross-sector caucuses convened before the 2024 White House/National Endowment for the Arts Summit. Specifically, it covers project personnel and expenses related to organizing groups and networks working at the intersection of arts and health, climate, and community development for shared learning and collective action across geographies and sectors. View Website

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

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

This project grant supports the United States Conference of Mayors for the Just City Mayoral Fellowship program, a semester-long hybrid technical assistance and leadership development program which equips mayors and their teams with design and creative solutions to address injustices in the built environment, and creates a network of mayors and city staff committed to centering community vision and voice in decision-making. View Website

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

This operating grant supports Project South to advance racial, economic, and social justice while fostering collective decision-making and cultural resilience in Atlanta and across the US South. View Website

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

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

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

This cross-team grant will enable Funders For Justice to strengthen partnerships between community-based social justice organizations, organizers and funders through cultural and creative practices, strategic education, training, technical assistance and funder organizing activities that mobilize philanthropic resources for more just, healthy and safer communities that include our focus cities and support our community safety investments. Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc. provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website