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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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School of Arts and Culture at MHP

This general operating grant renews support to the School of Arts and Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza and its mission to catalyze creativity and empower the East San Jose, California community. View Website

Amount

$305,000.00

Year

2024

Location

San Jose, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Historic Clayborn Temple

This cross-team grant supports Historic Clayborn Temple's operations and programs that use creativity and cultural strategies to cultivate a sense of belonging, safety, love, joy, and abundance in its South Memphis neighborhood, citywide and beyond. In addition, the grant will advance plans to develop a South Memphis Civil Rights Cultural District, comprised of 17 properties, in the neighborhood surrounding the Temple. View Website

Amount

$1,000,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Harness Community

This operating support grant supports Harness Community's mission to convene artists, activists, and movement leaders to educate, inspire, and activate a community of cultural organizers to use the power of storytelling to create a more equitable world. View Website

Amount

$300,000.00

Year

2024

Location

West Hollywood, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Field Building

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon

This general operating grant supports the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon’s place-keeping strategies to build connection, resist displacement and cultivate a strong social fabric in and around East Portland’s Jade District. It works with artists and community residents to create socially engaged activations that contribute to the neighborhood’s resilience. View Website

Amount

$300,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Portland, OR

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Jolt Initiative

This cross-team grant (Education, Health, and Arts & Culture), aimed towards democracy and student voting, will support the Jolt Initiative to address the underrepresentation of young Texas Latinos in civic engagement. Focused on cultivating youth leadership and community organizing, Jolt's unique approach is rooted in Latino arts and culture and empowers a Latino-led movement through civic participation and storytelling. View Website

Amount

$125,000

Year

2024

Location

Austin, Texas

Program

Arts & Culture, Education, Health

Focus Area

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

This grant supports Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in expanding the capacity of community development organizations nationwide and promoting social and economic mobility and opportunities through arts and culture. View Website

Amount

$900,000

Year

2023

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Human Services

Focus Area

Knowledge Exchange

CatchLight

This general operating grant will support CatchLight’s mission to combine the practices of art, journalism and social justice to nurture and grow a thriving visual ecosystem. CatchLight will expand and strengthen collaborations between artists, community-based organizations and newsrooms nationwide, focusing on lifting authentic resident narratives about economic inequality. Kresge funds will specifically support staffing, direct funding of visual artists and resources for community outreach. View Website

Amount

$250,000

Year

2023

Location

Berkeley, California

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.

This project grant supports the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America) to expand its cultural community development and health equity initiatives. Kresge funds will support training, convenings, expanding and merging its cultural community development and health equity initiatives – the Community Leadership Institute and Health Equity Lab, which will be available to its network of over 250 local community development partners. View Website

Amount

$725,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

The Center for Cultural Power

This project grant supports the Constellations Culture Change Fund & Initiative, a $13M effort to connect and resource a network of diverse artists, culture bearers, grassroots cultural strategy organizations and philanthropic partners working at the intersections of art, culture and social justice. View Website

Amount

$1,000,000

Year

2023

Location

Oakland, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

Bold Futures NM

This operating grant supports Bold Futures’ mission and work with mission-aligned artists and cultural workers to uplift resident voices, build community power, and shift harmful narratives on reproductive health, criminal justice reform, and youth development issues. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

Location

Albuquerque, NM

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Next City

This operating grant to Next City supports the power of journalism to uplift stories of solutions that intersect culture, creativity and social justice in cities across the country, including potential new partnerships with newsrooms in Detroit. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

Define American

This general operating grant supports Define American's mission. It enables it to increase immigrant artists' visibility, thus contributing to a more just and equitable arts and culture sector. Its fellowship program resources immigrant artists working to dismantle harmful stereotypes by bringing attention to the intersections of immigration, race, gender and acceptance. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2023

Location

Louisville, Kentucky

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

The Center for Cultural Power

This operating grant supports the Center for Cultural Power to leverage the power of culture to create a more equitable and healthy future. Through its artist leadership, intersectional storytelling and field-building programs, the Center is resourcing the creation of community-rooted stories that lead to collective action focusing on racial, gender, health and climate justice. View Website

Amount

$500,000

Year

2023

Location

Oakland, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

PolicyLink

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

Amount

$2,250,000

Year

2023

Location

Oakland, California

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, Human Services, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

Groundswell Fund Inc.

This grant supports the Black Trans Fund (BTF) to strengthen the national infrastructure of trans-led organizing and the role of trans leadership in the modern Racial Justice movement. This grant will support a cohort of anchoring organizations, provide capacity-building opportunities to place-based organizations, and seed a fellowship program for black trans-cultural organizers. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

San Francisco, CA

Program

Arts & Culture, Detroit

Focus Area

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation

This general operating grant supports the Wing Luke Memorial Foundation (the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience) to center the history, cultural expression, and arts of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities and to frame their stories and shape community-driven approaches to equitable development and advance racial and social equity. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

Seattle, Washington

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Richmond Land

This general operating grant renews support to Richmond Community-Owned Development Enterprise (Richmond Land) in Richmond, CA, to leverage cultural strategies and expand resident leadership through canvassing and storytelling campaigns around housing access and displacement mitigation, such as its Building Power Fellowship — an eight-month participatory action research and creative initiative.

Amount

$160,000

Year

2023

Location

Richmond, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Native American Community Development Institute

This general operating grant supports the Native American Community Development Institute's mission and the integration of civic engagement, community organizing, community development and indigenous arts and culture in Minneapolis, MN, through supporting Native artists, authors and culture bearers at its All My Relations Art gallery, Four Sisters Farmers Market and Urban Farm and Making Voting a Tradition, a civic engagement and voter registration program. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2023

Location

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center

This general operating grant supports the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center's mission to build connections between people and cultures through inclusive programs that continue living traditions and nurture the next generation of artists, culture-bearers and thinkers, such as the Sustainable Little Tokyo Initiative — a collaborative neighborhood-generated framework dedicated to environmental, economic and cultural sustainability. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

Los Angeles, California

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Deep Center

This general operating grant supports the Deep Center's mission and its youth and community development model that empowers young people in Savannah, GA, through creative writing, storytelling and literacy programs, participatory action research projects and community-informed policy briefs to thrive as learners, community leaders and agents of change. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2023

Location

Savannah, GA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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