This cross-team grant renews support for the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development to mobilize and strengthen over 150 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community-based organizations in low‑income communities across the U.S through coalition-building and creative placemaking initiatives. View Website

This project grant provides lead sponsorship for the 2026 Grantmakers in the Arts national conference in Memphis, TN. Conference programming will showcase emergent place-based strategies, local and regional cultural sites, and practitioners from Memphis and the South to expose arts funders from across the country to the depth of creative practices in this region. View Website

This cross-team grant renews operating support to Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing to continue its grantmaking, capacity building, field convening, research and learning programs focused on advancing a strong, interconnected, and well-resourced youth and intergenerational organizing field, including those applying arts and cultural strategies. View Website

This operating grant supports Eastside Arts Alliance to continue to unite art with activism for community empowerment and development through cultural programming on its campus which includes a theater, studios, affordable housing, and nonprofit storefront spaces. View Website

This project grant supports Another World Exists to build on the cross-sector caucuses convened before the 2024 White House/National Endowment for the Arts Summit. Specifically, it covers project personnel and expenses related to organizing groups and networks working at the intersection of arts and health, climate, and community development for shared learning and collective action across geographies and sectors. View Website

This project grant will support the Movement Strategy Center in partnering with the Arts & Culture Program to develop and administer Culture of Justice 2.0, a three-year initiative focused on cultural and community resilience. View Website

This cross-team renewal grant, between Arts and Culture and Health, will support Shelterforce as they continue in-depth, independent journalism highlighting health equity, creative placemaking, and community development approaches that interrupt systemic inequities in healthcare, education, housing instability, and economic opportunities throughout the country. View Website

This project grant supports the United States Conference of Mayors for the Just City Mayoral Fellowship program, a semester-long hybrid technical assistance and leadership development program which equips mayors and their teams with design and creative solutions to address injustices in the built environment, and creates a network of mayors and city staff committed to centering community vision and voice in decision-making. View Website

This cross-team grant from the Health and Arts & Culture programs will enable the RYSE Center to build its capacity as a national field building leader in creative, culturally affirming and community-centered healing strategies that support the collective, multi-modal learning and dissemination activities of Kresge-funded community safety and health partners in Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis and Fresno. View Website

This operating grant supports Project South to advance racial, economic, and social justice while fostering collective decision-making and cultural resilience in Atlanta and across the US South. 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 operating grant supports the National Public Housing Museum to continue programs that integrate creativity, housing justice, and economic empowerment such as cooperative entrepreneurship, workforce training, oral histories of public housing residents, and storytelling as tools for achieving social and civic outcomes, as well as support for artists, activists, and cultural workers in addressing inequities in housing and related issues. View Website

This grant renews operating support to Juxtaposition Arts, a youth-focused organization in North Minneapolis that works at the intersection of design, community development, and social enterprise and pairs young people with paid apprenticeships to foster their creative skills, community leadership, and professional readiness. View Website

This cross-team grant will enable Funders For Justice to strengthen partnerships between community-based social justice organizations, organizers and funders through cultural and creative practices, strategic education, training, technical assistance and funder organizing activities that mobilize philanthropic resources for more just, healthy and safer communities that include our focus cities and support our community safety investments. Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc. provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

This cross-team grant renewal with the Arts & Culture program provides continued general operating support to Community LIFT (LIFT), a community development intermediary advancing the revitalization of underinvested neighborhoods across Memphis. View Website

This cross-team operating grant supports Bold Futures' mission to build communities rooted in dignity, respect, and self-determination for women and people of color in New Mexico and expand its collaborations with artists and cultural workers to cultivate grassroots leadership, advance campaigns, and organize to improve maternal health, reform the criminal justice system, and advance youth development. View Website

This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels 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. View Website

This grant will support UPROSE to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels 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. View Website

This grant provides continued general operating support for Race Forward, which works to build a multiracial democracy and a racially equitable society through interlocking strategies of narrative, power building, and institutional practice. The organization works nationally while grounding each of its initiatives in particular communities. View Website

This project grant supports Prismid Sanctuary's community-led and designed evaluation process for an eco-cultural hub in Portland, OR. Funding will support community-based design, research, and storytelling projects related to Prismid's Indigenous land stewardship initiative. View Website