This project grant will allow Doing Development Differently Detroit to provide technical assistance to three identified pilot Community Investment Trust (CIT) projects, as well as explore various CIT scenarios and develop a CIT playbook tailored to Detroit. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Accounting Aid Society (AAS) to expand tax preparation capacity in Detroit’s neighborhoods as part of the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition. Kresge funding will ensure that non-filers who typically do not file taxes but are eligible for public benefits through the tax system can fully benefit from public resources by supporting AAS to extend tax prep capacity beyond the traditional tax season and to expand into neighborhood sites to provide tax prep services in locations most proximate to residents. View Website

This grant provides project support to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to facilitate the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition, which coordinates tax preparation providers, community-based outreach partners and civic and corporate leaders to advance economic mobility for Detroiters by ensuring access to benefits available through federal and state tax filings. View Website

This grant aims to support the next phase of the partnership with the Economic Security Project (ESP), which is focused on activating and equipping the Guaranteed Income Community of Practice members to move from pilots to policy. This phase will likely include a national GBI summit in Detroit to catalyze existing efforts in Michigan. View Website

This grant supports the next phase of a partnership with Ideas42 focused on dismantling harmful Detroit narratives and adding more local partners, informed by behavioral science expertise, to develop campaign efforts, rigorously measure progress against damaging narratives, and disseminate findings for field building in other places. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Cradle to Kindergarten Initiative (C2K) at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy to partner with the State of Michigan to develop a Universal Pre-K implementation plan. C2K will partner with Policy Equity Group to support the State of Michigan to develop a budget and implementation plan for its new, signature Universal Pre-K initiative through data analysis, analysis of best practices from other states, and stakeholder engagement to inform a roadmap that the State of Michigan can implement. View Website

This grant will support History Making Productions in disseminating the Kresge-supported documentary film Gradually, Then Suddenly, a historical account of the bankruptcy and resurgence of Detroit under the fiscal sponsor of CultureSource. View Website

This grant provides project support to EarlyWorks to facilitate and provide shared marketing assistance to a network of organizations implementing child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. EarlyWorks will convene and facilitate shared learning across this network of six grantees and document learnings to identify lessons to inform the scalability of this initiative. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Live6 Alliance in partnership with the Ella Fitzgerald Park Conservancy as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child- and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. The Conservancy will coordinate and implement programming at Ella Fitzgerald Park that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families in Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood through implementing a monthly, thematic programming series of community-developed “Activity Days” that use food, music, movie nights, and fitness activities to bring people of different socioeconomic, racial and age groups together. View Website

This grant provides project support to Global Detroit as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Global Detroit will coordinate and implement community-designed programming at Lasky Recreation Center that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families in Detroit’s East Davison Village and Banglatown neighborhoods through implementing a community-led-programming development process that engages Black, Yemeni, and Bangladeshi residents and youth to co-create a large project and four-to-six supplemental activities to activate Lasky and bring families of all backgrounds together through their Social Cohesion initiative. View Website

This grant provides project support to Clark Park Coalition (CPC) as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. CPC will coordinate and implement programming in Southwest Detroit’s Clark Park that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families through sports and recreational programming and staffing to provide access to the park’s newly installed play features. View Website

This grant supports the Bailey Park Project as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Bailey Park Project will coordinate and implement programming at Bailey Park that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families in Detroit’s McDougall-Hunt community through implementing recreational opportunities focused on encouraging physical activity and combatting sedentary lifestyles, art and music programs aimed at increasing social interaction and community-building, and family play opportunities focused on whole family activities for children and their caregivers to spend time together. View Website

This grant supports Brilliant Detroit as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Brilliant Detroit will coordinate and implement programming in neighborhood spaces surrounding its Southwest Detroit center that advances creativity, health and wellness and social connectivity among children and families by offering daily programming focused on literacy, health, family basic needs and community-building. View Website

This grant provides project support to Living Arts as part of a pilot network of organizations supporting child and family-centered public space activation in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Living Arts will coordinate and implement programming outside the Michigan Welcome Center in Mexicantown that advances culture, creativity and social connectivity among children and families in Southwest Detroit through visual and performing arts workshops and performances focused on engaging children in culturally appropriate art forms. View Website

This grant will sponsor Shimmer on the River 2023, the annual fundraiser for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. View Website

This grant will enable the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) to expand and build its capacity as a local resource supporting community-based public health systems in Detroit. MPHI will work as the local program office, assisting in developing and coordinating activities required for implementing the Neighborhood Solutions for Health Equity (NSHE) grants program. View Website

This grant will support the Detroit Excellence in Youth Arts Initiative (DEYA) to launch a comprehensive citywide needs assessment of Detroit’s youth arts sector under the fiscal sponsor of City Connect Detroit. DEYA will work to strengthen the city’s youth arts ecosystem, deepen sustainable investment, and equitably expand access to arts programming to all Detroit youth. View Website

This general operating support grant will enable the Detroit Historical Society (DHS) to sustain operations and celebrate the organization’s 100th anniversary. Kresge support will provide the essential bridge funding needed to maintain the current exhibitions, community programming, and collections care and management activities until the organization can move forward with a millage bid planned for 2024 in partnership with the Charles H. Wright Museum for African-American History. Part of this grant will also sponsor Detroit Through the Decades 2023, an event to celebrate the Society’s 100th anniversary. View Website

The Live6 Alliance will implement a series of community-engaged placemaking activations, public art installations and programming, and engagements across several recent physical capital investments, including the McNichols Streetscape, the Fitzgerald and Martin Park neighborhood hubs, and commercial alleys. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Michigan Environmental Council for its Detroit-based staff as they work to grow and strengthen the city's coalition of environmental groups and elevate the priorities of Detroiters in the state-level policymaking process. MEC will specifically focus its Detroit work on issues residents and partners prioritize, including water and energy affordability, grid reliability, flooding, asthma and air quality, lead in homes, and green jobs training. View Website