This general operating support grant enables Smart Growth America to help create healthy, prosperous, and resilient places to live for all people through research, advocacy, and direct support to community-based organizations, practitioners, and government at the intersection of transportation, climate, creativity, and housing issues. This cross-team investment reflects the importance of integrated approaches to tackling these issues and helping combat climate change, improve health outcomes, and connect residents to economic opportunity while uniquely applying arts and cultural methodologies for community engagement, research, and capacity-building. View Website

This grant renews support for the People’s Solar Energy Fund, which pairs non-extractive financing with technical assistance and community organizing to scale community-led and community-serving solar energy projects. View Website

This grant supports the Initiative for Energy Justice, which provides frontline advocates—including in Kresge’s focus cities—as well as city and state policymakers with energy law and policy analysis and tools grounded in equity. Their ability to navigate within and between the worlds of law, policy, regulation, advocacy, and organizing lends them an invaluable role in helping to bring about a more equitable, just, and sustainable energy system. View Website

This renewal grant supports ICLEI–Local Governments for Sustainability USA to advance its Communities Leading on Climate Mobility Initiative, strengthening local government capacity to plan for and respond to climate‑driven displacement in ways that advance resilience, equity, and shared prosperity. ICLEI will deepen and expand local pilot projects (including exploratory pilots in Detroit and New Orleans), broaden cohort‑based learning and peer exchange, and strengthen cross‑sector coordination. View Website

This grant will renew general operating support to Healthy Gulf to advance community-led climate resilience and coastal advocacy in New Orleans East and coastal Southeast Louisiana. Healthy Gulf will implement the New Orleans East Community Water Plan, strengthen resident leadership and coalition advocacy, and elevate community priorities in local and state infrastructure and coastal restoration decisions to help ensure climate investments advance racial and economic justice. View Website

This renewal grant supports Walker-Miller Energy Services, a nationally recognized Black-and woman-owned firm based in Detroit with deep expertise in energy efficiency, workforce development, and community engagement. Funding will support three climate justice initiatives: (1) sponsorship for RECESS 2025: Resilience and Equity in the Clean Energy Sector Summit, (2) advanced heat pump trainings, and (3) solar + storage site-assessment planning, to advance their vision of creating an Emerald Corner eco-district in New Center, in partnership with the NAACP. View Website

This grant supports the Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition (SWCBC) and partners in implementing place-based, community-driven climate and health interventions in the state’s industrial-transportation corridor. Building on longstanding partnerships in environmental health and justice, youth leadership, and policy advocacy, SWCBC aims to reduce climate and health risks, expand neighborhood resilience, and strengthen community capacity. View Website

This renewal grant expands Kresge’s support for two initiatives of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund preserves important sites of Black cultural heritage. RePurpose Capital provides lower-cost capital to adaptive-reuse projects in disinvested communities. View Website

This grant will support the Louisiana Green Corps (LAGC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local level that help communities in New Orleans better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. LAGC is one of 32 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website

This grant will support Fresno Building Healthy Communities (FBHC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local level that help communities in Fresno better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. FBHC is one of 32 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website

This grant will support Faith in the Valley (FIV) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local level that help communities in Fresno better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. FIV is one of 32 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website

This grant will support the Fairmount Indigo CDC (FICC), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state level that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners.

This grant will support the Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local level that help communities in Memphis better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

This grant will support the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII) in mobilizing health care and public health professionals to advance climate-related strategies, practice, and program implementation by supporting place-based community-driven solutions that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic effects of climate disruption. BARHII is one of 32 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website

This grant will support the 2026 CREWS Grant Partner Convening which will be held in New Orleans, LA, in March 2026. The grant will fund strategic facilitation, event-planning, and logistics support by the US Water Alliance (Alliance) and Catalyst Collaboratives LLC, as well as lodging, meals, transportation, site visits, honorariums, and vendors. This grant also funds a grantee networking event at the Alliance’s 2025 One Water Summit. View Website

This grant will support RE-volv, a solar + storage developer and current Kresge PRI loan and guarantee recipient, in its efforts to engage with community action agencies and the National Community Action Partnership. 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 grant will support the Community Foundation Climate Collaborative in its efforts to help community foundations across the country advance local climate action. Roughly half of this grant will support work in Kresge’s focus cities, and half will support the national membership network. View Website

This grant provides continued support for the Just Solutions Collective, a national organization working to enable equitable and effective climate action at the state and local level. Community Initiatives provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

This grant will provide general operating support to Inclusive Prosperity Capital (IPC), a current PRI investee, as it seeks to stabilize from recent claw backs of federal funding aimed at expanding access to solar energy for communities with low income. View Website