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Kresge’s grant database allows you to search for grants awarded since 2009. You can search and filter by program area, focus area, year and location.

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Biodiversity Funders Group

The Biodiversity Funders Group (BFG) is a philanthropy-serving organization focused on efforts to conserve and restore the biological diversity of our planet. View Website

Amount

$75,000

Year

2021

Location

San Francisco, California

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Catalyst Miami

This grant will support Catalyst Miami and their partners to implement a community-driven plan to achieve public policy and practice reforms that will build climate-resilience and health equity in Miami-Dade County's low-wealth communities and communities of color. View Website

Amount

$600,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Miami

Program

Environment, Health

Focus Area

New Jersey Future, Inc.

This renewal grant supports New Jersey Future’s Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers Campaign, an effort to influence the development and implementation of combined-sewer overflow (CSO) Long-Term Control Plans (LTCPs) in New Jersey. View Website

Amount

$150,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Trenton, New Jersey

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

Anthropocene Alliance

This grant provides general operating support to Anthropocene Alliance (A2), a national network of frontline communities that have survived flooding and seek solutions to climate-related flooding, public health, and integrated water-management issues. View Website

Amount

$195,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

Health Care Without Harm

This grant will enable Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) to expand its efforts to mobilize the health care sector to pursue policy change at the intersection of health and the climate crisis. View Website

Amount

$1,200,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

Environment, Health

Focus Area

West Harlem Environmental Action Inc.

This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WEACT) to implement a community-driven plan to address the health hazards of extreme heat for low-income, communities of color in northern Manhattan and throughout New York City. View Website

Amount

$600,000

Year

2021

Location

New York, New York

Program

Environment, Health

Focus Area

Urban Sustainability Directors Network

This grant will provide general operating support for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), the primary network through which local government sustainability practitioners access resources and collaborate to advance their work. View Website

Amount

$750,000

Year

2021

Location

Port Washington, Wisconsin

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Partnership for Southern Equity

This grant will enable Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) to build its work to advance energy equity and climate justice in metropolitan Atlanta and the American South. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2021

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

This grant supports the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Southeast Michigan Resilience Fund (Fund), a public-private partnership that awards competitive grants to improve community resilience in the face of climate change. View Website

Amount

$125,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Detroit, Environment

Focus Area

Strengthening the Evidence Base and Developing Tools

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

This grant will support the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (Leadership Counsel) as they advocate for more equitable climate and health policies and practices that will benefit low-wealth communities of color in the City of Fresno and Fresno County. View Website

Amount

$600,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Fresno, California

Program

Environment, Health

Focus Area

Green 2.0: Green Diversity Initiative

This grant provides general operating support to the Green Diversity Initiative, informally known as Green 2.0, to improve the recruitment, retention, and promotion of diverse professionals in environmental organizations and foundations, especially at the board and senior staff levels. View Website

Amount

$300,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Environmental Grantmakers Association

This grant will renew Kresge’s membership in the Environment Grantmakers Association (EGA), advance diversity, racial equity, and inclusion within environmental philanthropy, and provide organizational development support to ensure the successful transition of EGA’s executive director. View Website

Amount

$152,306.00

Year

2021

Location

New York, New York

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Climate Justice Alliance

This grant will renew general operating support to the Climate Justice Alliance, a national network of 74 community-based frontline organizations, to strengthen the leadership and elevate expertise of frontline communities to advance climate solutions with a justice and equity framework. View Website

Amount

$400,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Center for American Progress

This renewal grant supports the continued work of the Equitable & Just National Climate Forum (Forum), a venue through which twelve leading environmental justice groups and six national environmental organizations developed the Equitable & Just National Climate Platform and now work to align their federal climate policy priorities and advocacy strategies. View Website

Amount

$175,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

West Harlem Environmental Action Inc.

This grant will enable WE ACT for Environmental Justice to collaborate with PUSH Buffalo and others to complete the “Out of Gas, In with Justice” pilot project demonstrating the feasibility and benefits of electrifying affordable multifamily housing in New York City and Buffalo, New York. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2021

Location

New York, New York

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

US Green Building Council-West Michigan Chapter

This grant will enable the U.S. Green Building Council of West Michigan to lead a community-driven process to decarbonize the Grand Rapids building sector. View Website

Amount

$150,000

Year

2021

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

UPROSE Inc.

This grant will support UPROSE as they advocate for more equitable climate-resilience policies and investments to improve health and well-being for low-income, communities of color in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. View Website

Amount

$600,000

Year

2021

Location

Brooklyn, New York

Program

Environment, Health

Focus Area

Southeast Sustainability Directors Network

This grant will support the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network, an organization representing staff from more than 90 cities and counties across the Southeast. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2021

Location

Asheville, North Carolina

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles

This grant will support Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA) and their partners to advocate for community-prioritized policies that will 1) improve air quality; 2) reduce exposure to toxic air contaminants; 3) reduce the extraction, production, distribution and use of fossil fuels; and 4) promote climate solutions that provide safer alternatives for environmental justice communities. View Website

Amount

$600,000.00

Year

2021

Location

Los Angeles, California

Program

Environment, Health

Focus Area

Northeastern University

This grant supports the Institute for Energy Justice (IEJ), which provides frontline advocates as well as city and state policymakers with energy law and policy solutions grounded in equity View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2021

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Transforming Urban Systems

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