This grant supports the Movement Media Alliance, a coalition of social justice journalism organizations building a vibrant movement media ecosystem through shared infrastructure and collaboration. Kresge funding will expand arts and community coverage among coalition members and strengthen reporting on culture-based organizing that advances broader movement-building efforts. This investment recognizes the critical role of independent media in amplifying community voices, documenting creative placemaking strategies, and supporting the cultural narratives that drive social change and equity in urban communities. View Website

Next City, Inc. received cross-team support to advance solutions-based journalism on urban issues. The grant sustains Next City's Detroit reporting hub, expands health-focused coverage, and highlights innovative approaches from place-based community development partners across Kresge's focus cities, amplifying stories of cross-sector collaboration that build just and equitable urban communities. View Website

Movement Strategy Center will partner with Kresge's Arts and Culture team to co-design a new initiative that includes regranting and peer learning opportunities for a cohort of grantees working to advance culture and creativity as catalysts for community transformation. This investment builds the capacity of arts and culture organizations to drive equitable community change by fostering collaboration, shared learning, and resource distribution among practitioners using creative placemaking strategies. View Website

Movement Strategy Center, a national intermediary supporting 40 fiscally sponsored partners and over 180 grantee collaborators, receives operating support to strengthen community-based initiatives working at the intersection of cultural strategy, racial justice, and movement building. This cross-team investment recognizes the organization's role in advancing equitable community change through creative approaches that center culture as a driver of social transformation. View Website

First Peoples Fund received general operating support to advance its mission of empowering Native artists and culture bearers to embrace their creativity, Indigenous identities, and values while driving positive social and economic change in their communities. The organization provides fellowships, grants, and professional development training for Indigenous artists nationwide, strengthening the arts ecology and supporting cultural leadership that builds community assets and pathways to opportunity. View Website

This cross-team grant provides seed funding to launch the first phase of Detroit Youth Organizing for Power (DYOP), a two-phase, four-year collaborative initiative aimed to strengthen the field of community organizing in the Detroit area. View Website

This three-year grant supports Movement Generation's work embedding artists and storytellers in place-based and national environmental justice initiatives. Founded in 2020, the organization integrates ecological justice, cultural strategy, and technical assistance to help communities build equitable economies and transform extractive systems by reconnecting people to land, culture, and one another, advancing both environmental and cultural equity in urban and rural communities. View Website

This project grant supports planning and program development for Iola's Lyceum to strengthen creative placemaking initiatives.

This general operating grant supports Voices for Racial Justice's mission to strengthen Minnesota's racial justice movement through cultural and healing strategies. View Website

This grant supports The League to continue the Culture Surge project, a cultural and civic strategy initiative. View Website

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

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

This project grant supports Become, Inc., a movement-building organization, to continue collaborating with the residents and artists in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood. View Website

This project grant renews support to the Center for Cultural Innovation for AmbitioUS, a ten-year national initiative designed to influence and develop more sustainable alternative economic systems and services by, for and with artists. View Website

This cross-team general operating grant supports Smart Growth America's mission to empower communities to revitalize and grow to promote healthier living and shared prosperity. View Website

This cross-team operating grant renews support for the NDN Collective's climate, cultural, economic, healing and racial justice efforts. View Website

This general operating grant will support Mixed Blood Theater's mission and use theater, spoken word, arts, and dialogue to promote belonging and celebrate the diverse voices of Minneapolis and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. View Website

This general operating grant supports Grantmakers in the Arts, which provides services to the arts and culture funder community and leadership to advance more responsive, sustainable and equitable practices that will lead to intersectional and economic justice for all. View Website

This general operating grant supports the Community Power Collective and its mission to build power with low-income tenants and workers in Boyle Heights, East LA and the greater Los Angeles area. View Website

This general operating grant supports Communities United for Reparative Youth Justice and its efforts unlock the leadership of young people to end youth criminalization and incarceration in the City of Oakland and the State of California. View Website