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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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Raheem

This grant provides general operating support to Raheem, an independent online service for reporting police violence in the United States, to create an alternative rapid response dispatching system, rooted in community care and join the Racial Justice United network as part of the foundation’s Racial Justice Response Plan. View Website

Amount

$150,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Dream of Detroit

This grant provides general operating support to Dream of Detroit (DoD) to increase their community organizing capacity, deepen their leadership with the Coalition for Property Tax Justice, and join the Racial Justice United network as part of the foundation’s Racial Justice Response Plan. View Website

Amount

$100,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

18 Million Rising

One of the suite of five grants this quarter to support Asian Asian organizers in the wake of the spike in anti-Asian violence, this grant provides one-time operating support to 18 Million Rising to create deeper solidarity organizing with Black, Indigenous, and immigrant-led efforts. View Website

Amount

$100,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Detroit, MI

Program

Focus Area

Detroit Narrative Agency

This grant provides general operating support to Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA) to bolster narrative change in Detroit through the storytelling of native Detroiters of color and join the Racial Justice United network as part of the foundation’s Racial Justice Response Plan.

Amount

$100,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Detroit Action Education Fund

This general operating grant provides support to Detroit Action to expand their grassroots, member-led coalition of Black and Brown, low and no-income, homeless and housing insecure Detroiters; joining the Racial Justice United network as part of the foundation’s Racial Justice Response Plan. View Website

Amount

$100,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries

This grant provides general operating support to Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM) to deliver direct services and community building for refugee populations in Fresno as part of the Foundation’s Racial Justice Response Plan.   View Website

Amount

$200,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Fresno, CA

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

South Asian Americans Leading Together, Inc.

This grant provides a one-time general operating grant to South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), a membership organization of fifty place-based South Asian-led organizations, to complete the adoption of an intersectional, racial justice framework. View Website

Amount

$100,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Takoma Park, MD

Program

Focus Area

Detroit Urban League

This grant provides general operating support to the Detroit Urban League (DUL) to increase their ability to operate as an anchoring racial justice institution in Detroit and join the Racial Justice United network as part of the foundation’s Racial Justice Response Plan. View Website

Amount

$70,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta

One of the suite of five grants this quarter to support Asian American organizers in the wake of the spike in anti-Asian violence, this grant provides one-time operating support to Asian Americans Advancing Justice –Atlanta, the first and only organization in the southeastern United States dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of Asian and Pacific Islanders. View Website

Amount

$100,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Norcross, Georgia

Program

Focus Area

BlackSpace

This general operating grant provides support to BlackSpace as they advance community-based strategies of urban planning, centered on racial justice, in Detroit and 15 other American cities; joining the Racial Justice United network as part of the foundation’s Racial Justice Response Plan. View Website

Amount

$150,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Brooklyn, NY

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Wayne State University

Geography Served: Detroit

Project:

This grant will support the launch of the Detroit Equity Report, a collaboration between Wayne State University and key Detroit faith community leaders to catalyze the Detroit business community to better address issues of racial equity their impact in Detroit. View Website

Amount

$165,000

Year

2020

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Vietnamese in Economic Training

Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training

This grant provides general operating support for providing direct services to the undeserved and to limited English proficiency communities in New Orleans. View Website

Amount

$225,000

Year

2020

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

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Vayla New Orleans

This grant provides general operating support for advocacy, organizing and civic engagement for the AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) and BIPOC community in New Orleans. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2020

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

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Urban League Of Louisiana

This grant provides general operating support to provide racial equity training for organizations and to build generational wealth for Black and Latinx families in New Orleans. View Website

Amount

$375,000

Year

2020

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Tides Foundation

Geography Served: Detroit

Project:

This grant provides general operating support to the Detroit Branch NAACP's mission of ensuring political, educational, social and economic equality through programming, initiatives and collaboration. View Website

Amount

$225,000

Year

2020

Location

San Francisco, California

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Theaster Gates Studio

Geography Served: Detroit

Project:

This grant provides project support for Theaster Gates Studio to serve as an advisory consultant for the Marygrove campus master planning process as the Marygrove Conservancy works to redevelop the Marygrove campus as p-20 educational campus with community-based arts and cultural programming, View Website

Amount

$225,000

Year

2020

Location

Chicago, IL

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Arts and Culture Ecosystem

The Power Coalition

This grant provides general operating support to strengthen civic engagement and community organizing work in New Orleans. View Website

Amount

$375,000

Year

2020

Location

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

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The Data Center

This grant provides project support for racial justice reporting, data analysis and research in the New Orleans region. View Website

Amount

$375,000

Year

2020

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center

This grant will support SEARAC’s responsive advocacy and programs related to COVID-19 legislation in California and nationwide; community engagement and collaboration with partners on digital organizing campaigns and investments in organizational sustainability. View Website

Amount

$375,000

Year

2020

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Focus Area

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River City Capital

This grant supports the Road to Recovery initiative that seeks to address the capital needs to re-open for small neighborhood businesses in low to moderate income communities of color after a citywide quarantine due to COVID-19. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2020

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

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