United Way for Southeastern Michigan received support to lead Hope Starts Here's Imperative #5, focusing on data and systems integration for early childhood services. The grant enables implementation of the Connect4Care Community Information Exchange, creating a unified access point for early childhood enrollment, healthcare, and basic needs services, with a pilot program launching in Southwest Detroit through partnerships with community organizations. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Southwest Detroit Business Association (SDBA) to strengthen the economic and cultural vitality of Southwest Detroit's Vernor corridor through a community placemaking initiative and build out of a retail accelerator to support local, resident-owned small businesses. The work advances economic opportunity and community wealth-building in one of Detroit's vibrant neighborhoods by centering resident entrepreneurs and cultural assets. View Website

This grant provides project support to Policy Equity Group (PEG) to serve backbone functions for implementing the Hope Starts Here framework in Detroit. PEG will facilitate coordinated action among initiative leads, develop and implement a policy agenda, and strengthen Hope Starts Here's long-term systems change approach. This investment supports the infrastructure needed to advance collective impact work that addresses systemic barriers facing Detroit families and children, ensuring that multiple stakeholders can work together effectively to create lasting change and expand opportunity in the city. View Website

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

Early Childhood Investment Corporation, in partnership with Centers for Family Development, received support to co-lead Hope Starts Here's Imperative #3, focusing on enhancing early childhood program quality in Detroit. The initiative invests in strengthening the early childhood workforce and improving kindergarten transitions and readiness, building pathways to opportunity for Detroit's youngest residents and the professionals who serve them. View Website

This grant provides support for the 2025 Detroit Homecoming, an annual event launched in 2014 by Crain's Detroit Business to re-engage former Detroiters and encourage investment in the city's redevelopment and economic growth. View Website

This grant provides support to Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) to provide a full complement of staffing at The School at Marygrove to facilitate arts, music, advanced placement, and student culture-focused programming. The investment strengthens educational pathways and enrichment opportunities for Detroit students by ensuring comprehensive programming that supports academic achievement and cultural development. View Website

This grant provides operating support to Non-Profit Enterprise at Work (NEW), one of five intermediaries that form a collaborative committed to strengthening nonprofit sector capacity in Detroit. View Website

This project grant will fund Green Living Science to support a city of Detroit Green Task Force research trip to Philadelphia, PA to build foundational knowledge across the multi-sector attendees to advance and implement renewable energy, recycling, composting, transportation, stormwater management, and climate resilience practices in Detroit. View Website

This grant supports the 2025 Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) program, which provides awards and professional development resources to individual artists across metro Detroit. The grant funds will sustain the program's three signature awards: the Kresge Eminent Artist Award (EA), Kresge Artist Fellowships (KAF), and Gilda Awards (GA). It will also support supplemental activities, such as communication efforts, public celebration events, and professional development resources. View Website

This grant provides general operating support to the Detroit bureau of Chalkbeat. Kresge’s funding for Chalkbeat supports its efforts to highlight community voices and impacts on early childhood, education equity, and educational outcomes for children in Detroit. View Website

This grant in partnership with the Detroit Health Department and the Michigan Department of Health will provide support and expand overall clinical and general operations, as well as contracted optometry professionals in providing eye exams and glasses for all children within the 66 Head Start programs in Detroit. View Website

This general operating grant will support Outlier Media, a nonprofit news organization focused on information needs in Detroit communities. View Website

This grant supports the 2025 Just Economy Conference, an annual convening of leaders from community, business, foundation, policy and government that are involved in economic justice. View Website

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

This grant supports the Institute to convene representatives from local environmental justice organizations and media outlets in Detroit to establish relationships between the two sectors and to prioritize key stories for climate action and impact. View Website

This grant provides funding to Enterprise Community Partners (ECP) for the Key Corridor Fund, which will provide operating and resource support to community development organizations stewarding key commercial corridors in Detroit, including Jefferson East, Inc., Vanguard CDC, Live6 Alliance and Midtown Detroit, Inc. View Website

This grant will support Kresge’s membership in the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC), a national coalition of foundations committed to supporting early childhood priorities across the United States. View Website

The grant will strengthen the legal infrastructure in Michigan to protect civil rights and support community organizing efforts. View Website

This grant will provide project support for the Urban Consulate to promote community dialogue and urban development initiatives in Detroit. View Website