National Public Housing Museum 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 Amount $280,000 Year 2025 Location Chicago, Illinois Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles This grant will support Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA), as lead partner of the LEAP-LA coalition, to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. These efforts will 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. PSR-LA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Los Angeles, California Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability This grant will support Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA) 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. LCJA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Fresno, California Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans
Environmental Health Coalition This grant will support the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) 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. EHC is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location National City, Calif. Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
Define American This operating grant supports Define American's mission and its work with artists, storytellers and culture bearers to promote authentic and nuanced storytelling about immigrant experiences through leveraging research, evidence-based resources and mutual support networks to strengthen cultural expressions that combat the polarization of immigrant stories across mediums and industries. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2025 Location Louisville, Kentucky Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
CatchLight This grant seeks to fortify representative local journalism. Catchlight will invest in community-based photojournalists and journalists to partner with local newsrooms and community organizations to tell the stories of community and community residents. View Website Amount $450,000 Year 2025 Location Berkeley, California Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Asian Pacific Environmental Network This grant will support the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) 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. APEN is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity Initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website Amount $675,000 Year 2025 Location Oakland, California Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health Focus Area
The Center for Cultural Power This general operating grant supports the Center for Cultural Power in building a thriving national network of artists, culture bearers and movement groups working to shift world views through cultural strategy. The Center will bolster its network organizing and cultural strategy trainings, tools and field learning that build power for migration, bodily autonomy, climate and racial justice. View Website Amount $1 million Year 2025 Location Oakland, CA Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Truthout This grant supports the Movement Media Alliance, a coalition of social justice journalism organizations building a vibrant movement media ecosystem through shared infrastructure and collaboration. Kresge funding will expand arts and community coverage among coalition members and strengthen reporting on culture-based organizing that advances broader movement-building efforts. This investment recognizes the critical role of independent media in amplifying community voices, documenting creative placemaking strategies, and supporting the cultural narratives that drive social change and equity in urban communities. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2025 Location Sacramento, CA Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Next City Next City, Inc. received cross-team support to advance solutions-based journalism on urban issues. The grant sustains Next City's Detroit reporting hub, expands health-focused coverage, and highlights innovative approaches from place-based community development partners across Kresge's focus cities, amplifying stories of cross-sector collaboration that build just and equitable urban communities. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2025 Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Program American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Health Focus Area
Movement Strategy Center Movement Strategy Center will partner with Kresge's Arts and Culture team to co-design a new initiative that includes regranting and peer learning opportunities for a cohort of grantees working to advance culture and creativity as catalysts for community transformation. This investment builds the capacity of arts and culture organizations to drive equitable community change by fostering collaboration, shared learning, and resource distribution among practitioners using creative placemaking strategies. View Website Amount $!50,000 Year 2025 Location Oakland, California Program Arts & Culture Focus Area Advance Creative Strategies in Place
Movement Strategy Center Movement Strategy Center, a national intermediary supporting 40 fiscally sponsored partners and over 180 grantee collaborators, receives operating support to strengthen community-based initiatives working at the intersection of cultural strategy, racial justice, and movement building. This cross-team investment recognizes the organization's role in advancing equitable community change through creative approaches that center culture as a driver of social transformation. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2025 Location Oakland, California Program Arts & Culture, Environment Focus Area
First Peoples Fund First Peoples Fund received general operating support to advance its mission of empowering Native artists and culture bearers to embrace their creativity, Indigenous identities, and values while driving positive social and economic change in their communities. The organization provides fellowships, grants, and professional development training for Indigenous artists nationwide, strengthening the arts ecology and supporting cultural leadership that builds community assets and pathways to opportunity. View Website Amount $450,000 Year 2025 Location Rapid City, S.D. Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Metro Solutions Inc. This cross-team grant provides seed funding to launch the first phase of Detroit Youth Organizing for Power (DYOP), a two-phase, four-year collaborative initiative aimed to strengthen the field of community organizing in the Detroit area. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2025 Location Southfield, MI Program Arts & Culture, Detroit Focus Area
Movement Generation This three-year grant supports Movement Generation's work embedding artists and storytellers in place-based and national environmental justice initiatives. Founded in 2020, the organization integrates ecological justice, cultural strategy, and technical assistance to help communities build equitable economies and transform extractive systems by reconnecting people to land, culture, and one another, advancing both environmental and cultural equity in urban and rural communities. View Website Amount $300,000 Year 2025 Location Berkeley, CA Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Iola’s Lyceum, Inc. This project grant supports planning and program development for Iola's Lyceum to strengthen creative placemaking initiatives. Amount 250000 Year 2025 Location Brooklyn, NY Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Voices for Racial Justice This general operating grant supports Voices for Racial Justice's mission to strengthen Minnesota's racial justice movement through cultural and healing strategies. View Website Amount $200,000 Year 2024 Location Minneapolis, MN Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
The League This grant supports The League to continue the Culture Surge project, a cultural and civic strategy initiative. View Website Amount $400,000 Year 2024 Location Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
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
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