Eastside Arts Alliance This general operating grant supports the EastSide Arts Alliance and its mission to use art for community empowerment and cultural development. View Website Amount $300,000.00 Year 2021 Location Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis The purpose of this grant is to support the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis to strengthen and enhance their programmatic and policy efforts to advance closing the women’s wealth gap for women of color in Memphis. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2021 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program Human Services Focus Area
Project Row Houses This general operating grant will support Project Row Houses' (Project Row's) Creative Placemaking activities and ongoing participation in Kresge’s Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) learning community. View Website Amount $350,000.00 Year 2021 Location Houston Program Arts & Culture Focus Area
Nation Outside The grant will support the Human Services and Detroit Programs' partnership with Nation Outside (NO) to implement a civic engagement, social cohesion, and power-building effort primarily with fathers of color in Detroit. Safe and Just Michigan is the fiscal sponsor for NO. View Website Amount $100,000 Year 2021 Location Lansing, Michigan Program Detroit, Human Services Focus Area
Yakima Valley Conference of Governments This grant will support the Yakima Valley Council of Governments (Yakima) to to identify and mitigate unhealthy and unsafe homes in Toppenish, Washington. Yakima will work with community and City representatives to undertake a regional housing study and a housing action plan. View Website Amount $400,000.00 Year 2021 Location Yakima, Washington Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Opportunity Finance Network This grant provides funding to sponsor Opportunity Finance Network’s (OFN) 37th annual conference; the premier convening for the community development financial institutions (CDFI) industry. OFN is the leading national network of CDFIs, which are mission-driven lenders that align capital with social and economic justice View Website Amount $50,000.00 Year 2021 Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Program Focus Area
MQVN Community Development Consortium This grant provides general operating support for Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Consortium (MQVN CDC), the primary community development corporation undertaking physical redevelopment and serving the needs of low-income Vietnamese-American, African-American, Latinx and/or immigrant communities in the New Orleans East community of Village de l’Est. View Website Amount $400,000.00 Year 2021 Location New Orleans, LA Program American Cities Focus Area Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans
Marygrove Conservancy This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy for its ongoing stewardship and maintenance of the Marygrove campus. View Website Amount $1,015,000 Year 2021 Location Detroit, Mich. Program Detroit Focus Area Transformative Project/Marygrove
Marygrove Conservancy This grant provides general operating support to the Marygrove Conservancy for its ongoing stewardship and maintenance of the Marygrove campus. This grant is part of Kresge’s ongoing commitment to a bold vision for the revitalization of the Marygrove campus as a neighborhood hub for education, arts and culture, and economic mobility. View Website Amount $1,000,000.00 Year 2021 Location Detroit, Mich. Program Detroit Focus Area Transformative Project/Marygrove
M-1 RAIL This grant will provide general operating support for M-1 RAIL (M-1) to assist during the suspension of operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. View Website Amount $1,000,000 Year 2021 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area
Live6 Alliance This grant provides general operating support to the Live6 Alliance, a community development corporation serving commercial corridors and residential neighborhoods within the Livernois-McNichols geography of Northwest Detroit View Website Amount $950,000.00 Year 2021 Location Detroit, Michigan Program Detroit Focus Area
Hope Community, Inc. This grant would support Hope Community Inc., to implement and expand its Community Ownership Project (COP), and steward and support healthy, safe and resilient neighborhood spaces in the Phillips Community in Minnesota. This strategy grew out of a community-led process with residents that was initially supported by a planning grant from the Health Team’s Advancing Health Equity through Housing funding opportunity. View Website Amount $400,000.00 Year 2021 Location Minneapolis, Minnesota Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Swipe Out Hunger This grant will enable Swipe Out Hunger to hire the consultants needed to merge with the College and University Food Bank Alliance. One in three college students experience hunger, and challenges with meeting basic needs can be a major impediment to persistence and completion - an issue the pandemic has exacerbated. By merging, these two organizations will achieve greater scale and responsiveness to the needs of students and campuses post-pandemic. View Website Amount $100,000.00 Year 2021 Location Los Angeles, California Program Education Focus Area Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success
Detroit Parks Coalition This grant provides general operating support to the Detroit Parks Coalition (DPC) for its launch phase, during which it will hire full-time staff and advance its mission to deliver outstanding park experiences for Detroiters in all parts of the city. View Website Amount $180,000.00 Year 2021 Location Program Detroit Focus Area
DAISA Enterprises This grant will support the development of a Community of Practice and Action (CoPA), a practitioner-led network that will include members of Kresge’s Fresh, Local and Equitable initiative (FreshLo) network, other Equitable Food-Oriented Development practitioners, and members of ArtPlace’s Arts-Infused Food System community. View Website Amount $150,000.00 Year 2021 Location South Hadley, Massachusetts Program Arts & Culture, Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Connecticut Fair Housing Center This grant recommends support for two streams of work led by the Connecticut Fair Housing Center (the Center) that grew out of a community-wide process supported by an initial planning grant from the Health team's Advancing Health Equity through Housing (HEH) opportunity: 1) expanding tenant rights and advocacy efforts in census tracts with high degrees of housing instability; and 2) leveraging current research to work with municipalities to improve their response to housing code violations. View Website Amount $400,000.00 Year 2021 Location Hartford, Connecticut Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Community Services Unlimited This grant will support the development and deployment of a Technical Assistance network of BIPOC experts and allies in healthy food system strategy implementation by the Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) Collaborative. View Website Amount $210,000.00 Year 2021 Location Los Angeles, California Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Bread for the City Inc. This grant will provide support for a community organizing campaign with residents in six public housing properties to address improving living and health conditions. View Website Amount $400,000.00 Year 2021 Location Washington, D.C. Program Health Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
Black Food Sovereignty Coalition This grant will support Black Food Sovereignty Coalition’s development of its Black Food Economy Project and Community Co-Pack facility, by creating a local Black-owned network of food opportunities in Portland, OR, and the surrounding area. View Website Amount $50,000.00 Year 2021 Location Portland, Oregon Program Focus Area Community-Driven Solutions
The Collective (CLTV) This general operating grant will support The Collective’s Creative Placemaking activities and its participation in Kresge’s Creative Practice cohort. The Collective's mission is to elevate Black artists, empower Black communities and shift the culture of Memphis to be recognized as a cultural beacon of the South. View Website Amount $300,000.00 Year 2021 Location Memphis, Tennessee Program American Cities, Arts & Culture Focus Area Strengthen Cross-Sector Partnerships