This project grant to Verge Impact Partners will enable the Advancing Health Equity through Housing learning community to co-create and participate in one in-person convening, one virtual convening, and four thematic/regional gatherings.

This grant provides operating support for the Convergence Partnership, a collaboration of 11 national and regional foundations working to promote health equity and racial justice by building community power, changing harmful narratives, and influencing philanthropic practice. View Website

YR Media will provide youth training, technical assistance, stipends, and support to five Kresge-funded community-based organizations in Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans, Fresno, and the SF Bay Area as they develop a multi-community, co-branded, high-impact podcast series and media microsite to amplify their community safety and health work. View Website

Funding for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a multi-funder collaborative that addresses the health impacts of housing instability, particularly for people of color. FHO will provide financial support to nonprofit organizations for grantmaking priorities, learning, field building, and external engagement. View Website

This two-year grant continues Kresge’s support of in-depth, independent reporting focused on health equity, creative placemaking, and community development. View Website

This grant will provide operating support to Fair Food Network (FFN), one of the nation's leading food policy and program delivery organizations. FFN pioneered Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) incentives, which increase the buying power of SNAP recipients to purchase fresh produce, creating the dual benefits of improved health and stronger local food economies. This grant will support FFN's three major focus areas: nutrition incentive expansion; impact investing in food enterprises; and policy advocacy. View Website

This grant will enable the Miami Workers Center to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through its previous HEH grant, the Center was able engage the community in advocating for tenant protections and rights, primarily for low-income and BIPOC individuals within Miami-Dade County. View Website

This grant will support Fresno Building Healthy Communities (BHC) develop a strategic plan to implement a Community Justice Network, advocate for just transportation system funding, influence community preventative health investments, and expand its network of community-based organizations and residents advocating for investments in community wellness workers and neighborhood wellness teams This is another exploratory community safety and health grant being made in collaboration with the American Cities program. View Website

This grant will support Hawaiian Community Assets' participation in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through their previous HEH grant, the organizations and its partners established the Affordable Hawaii for All Fellows Program providing technical and financial assistance for affordable housing development to homeless and low-income Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and advocated for improved housing affordability in Maui County. View Website

This grant will enable Daughters Beyond Incarceration expand its policy program to reach more girls and young women in New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette Louisiana. It will enable them to establish new partnerships and expand the impact of its policy education and leadership development programs that educate daughters and caregivers with incarcerated parents about social justice and the importance of creating supportive policies. This exploratory community safety and health grant is a collaboration with the American Cities program. View Website

This grant will enable Right to the City to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through their previous HEH grant, the organization has worked to further develop their multi-sector collaborations and incorporate equity- and justice-based organizing frameworks into their work. View Website

This grant will support Piedmont Housing Alliance's participation in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through the previous HEH grant, Piedmont supported resident-led redevelopment efforts in Charlottesville, VA. View Website

This grant to the Amplify Fund will support primarily BIPOC-led organizations in seven states and Puerto Rico that are advocating for equitable community development outcomes.  Amplify operates differently than many other funder collaboratives in that major strategic and governance decisions are made primarily by the 55 field partners in the eight places and regions (rather than funders) to ensure that funding decisions authentically represent community priorities. Fiscal Sponsor: Neighborhood Funders Group View Website

This grant will support the RYSE Center's ongoing efforts to address chronic and complex trauma, pursue hospital-linked violence prevention, and promote resiliency, healing, and transformation, and strengthen models of providing community mental health. It will enable the Center to connect to the exploratory community safety and health grants being coordinated by the Health, American Cities, Arts & Culture, and Detroit programs View Website

This grant will support a bilingual graduate intern position with Duke University’s World Food Policy Center to work with our Equitable Food Policy Oriented Development grantee partner, El Departamento de la Comida (El Depa) to develop a case study documenting and evaluating the relief efforts in Puerto Rico after the 2018 hurricanes. The case study will assess how a U.S. territory can best achieve community-driven models of food sovereignty, including accessing USDA funding sources. View Website

This grant will support Community Services Unlimited (CSU) to serve as the Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) Collaborative’s fiscal sponsor. CSU has many years of experience as a fiscal sponsor and is itself an EFOD exemplar. Key roles will include re-granting, contracting, and technical assistance (TA). View Website

This grant will support Communities in Partnership to grow Innovation for Liberation, a BIPOC-led model for social change across all social determinants of health, which seeks to holistically serve communities who experience the worst outcomes of systemic racism. View Website

This grant to DAISA Enterprises will provide ongoing support for the Equitable Food Oriented (EFOD) Collaborative, which is comprised of Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latinx leaders from community-based organizations engaged in food enterprise in communities across the country. DAISA will continue to staff, facilitate, and provide strategic guidance through project management, communications, policy, and technical assistance. View Website

This grant will enable Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through the previous HEH grant, Stewards worked to create and support healthy, equitable, and opportunity-rich affordable housing that mitigates toxic stress and trauma while addressing the social determinants of health. View Website

This grant will enable Make the Road New York to participate in a learning community of 29 Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) grantee partners. Through the previous HEH grant, Make the Road leveraged their Community Health Worker program to support over 800 families in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island with bilingual culturally-competent health support. View Website