National Council of Urban Indian Health This grant renewal will support the ability of the National Council of Urban Indian Health's (NCUIH) to advocate on behalf of its 41 member organizations for parity in federal funding formulas and to increase awareness of the most pressing health concerns of urban Native communities. View Website Amount 300,000 Year 2025 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area
Live Again Fresno This two-year implementation grant from the Health and American Cities teams will enable Live Again Fresno to expand its trauma-informed education, community outreach and safety programs in the Jane Addams neighborhood as a member of the Fresno Building Healthy Communities collaborative that promotes health in economically disadvantaged Fresno communities with high exposure to violence and limited access to health promoting resources. View Website Amount 400,000 Year 2025 Location Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
ChangeLab Solutions This grant supports ChangeLab Solutions to host their Accelerating Policy Change series in communities interested in partnering with regions where health inequalities persist to help educate and use tools of law and policy to support health. View Website Amount 400,000 Year 2025 Location Oakland, California Program American Cities, Environment, Health Focus Area
Big Cities Health Coalition This grant will support The Big Cities Health Coalition’s goals to support the local public health ecosystem, be a resource to members, and foster leadership development amidst future public health challenges. View Website Amount 750,000 Year 2025 Location Bethesda, Maryland Program Health Focus Area
Ubuntu Village NOLA This grant will support Ubuntu Village to amplify its violence prevention work through expanded collaborations with the Office of Violence Prevention, University Medical Center, and the Seeds of NOLA Trauma Recovery Center to improve health outcomes in economically disadvantaged New Orleans neighborhoods. View Website Amount 400,000 Year 2025 Location New Orleans LA Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
Inclusive Action for the City This grant will strengthen efforts led by Inclusive Action for the City to develop community-centered health programs in urban neighborhoods. View Website Amount 300,000 Year 2025 Location Los Angeles, California Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
One Nation/One Project 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 Amount $1,000,000 Year 2024 Location Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Field Building
Live Again Fresno This grant from the Health and American Cities programs will support Live Again Fresno expand its trauma-informed education, mentorship, community outreach, community employment, and health promotion and community safety programs for Fresno children and families living along Parkway Drive and in the Jane Addams neighborhood of Fresno. View Website Amount $150,000 Year 2024 Location Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
Jolt Initiative 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 Amount $125,000 Year 2024 Location Austin, Texas Program Arts & Culture, Education, Health Focus Area
Corbin Hill Food Project There are growing efforts to embed Produce Prescription programs (PRx) and Food as Medicine (FaM) models into state and federal health-funded programs which hold great promise to improve nutrition and health in low-wealth communities around the country. View Website Amount $800,000 Year 2024 Location Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
George Washington University This grant will provide support to the Funders Forum on Accountable Health, a group of philanthropic funders committed to collaborative national and state/local efforts to advance multi-sector, health-related partnerships centered in and accountable to communities with the aim of creating equity-focused, transformed systems that support health, well-being, and thriving communities. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2024 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Four Freedoms Fund This grant from the Health and Arts & Culture programs will support the Four Freedoms Fund to strengthen the national immigrant justice field, expand the organizational capacity, the leadership of immigrant justice organizations, and relationship building that serves nearly 150 immigrant justice groups in 45 states. View Website Amount $600,000 Year 2024 Location Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Meharry Medical College Meharry Medical College will synthesize emerging research about the persistent structural and institutional barriers to health equity and propose a framework that identifies strategies to remove those barriers and replace them with public health practices that ensure a more equitable distribution of opportunities and resources. View Website Amount $150,000.00 Year 2024 Location Nashville, Tenn. Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
National Association of County and City Health Officials As the membership organization for city, county, and local health departments, NACCHO hosts an annual conference which draws thousands of local and federal health officials and other public health partners. This year’s conference will be held in Detroit. Rip will keynote the opening general session, and there will also be opportunities to highlight public health efforts across our four focus cities, including a panel session that will include Rip and Dr. Michelle Taylor, Public Health Director, Shelby County, Tennessee. View Website Amount $60,000.00 Year 2024 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area Community Health Ecosystems
Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism This grant will support a journalism fellowship program at the Association of Healthcare Journalists that gives scholarships to 10 journalists each year for two years, with a focus on Black, Indigenous and other journalists of color in Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans and Fresno. As part of their fellowship, selected journalists will receive one year of AHCJ membership and have the full cost of their attendance at the AHCJ yearly conference covered. View Website Amount $60,000 Year 2024 Location Columbia, Missouri Program Health 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
Ubuntu Village NOLA This grant from the Health and American Cities programs will support Ubuntu Village expand its trauma-informed education, training, community outreach, cultural programming, mentorship, and advocacy programs that support New Orleans residents impacted by violence, including those served through the University Medical Center hospital-based violence intervention program and Seeds of NOLA Trauma Recovery Center. View Website Amount $175,000 Year 2024 Location New Orleans LA Program American Cities, Health Focus Area
Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc. This grant will provide support to the Health Affairs journal (Health Affairs) in its efforts to be more intentional about the content it publishes on health equity and the multiple factors that impact it, such as discrimination, workforce diversity, health disparities, and the social determinants of health. View Website Amount $900,000 Year 2024 Location Millwood, Va. Program Environment, Health Focus Area
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
Local Initiatives Support Corporation – Memphis This grant will support LISC's efforts to create equitable, safe, and resilient communities of opportunity in Memphis. Kresge funds will help to staff LISC's Memphis office and fund two programs: the Greater Memphis Community Violence Intervention Program and the 901Help home repair program. View Website Amount $800.000 Year 2023 Location Memphis, TN Program American Cities, Health Focus Area Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans