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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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IFF – Detroit

This grant provides project support to IFF to support comprehensive community development strategies in key Detroit neighborhoods, anchored by high-quality early childhood facilities and programs. View Website

Amount

830000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.

This cross-team grant between the Detroit and Human Services programs provides project support to the ACLU to ensure continued equitable implementation of federally funded early care and education programming in communities like Detroit that depend heavily on federally funded programs. View Website

Amount

250000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit, Human Services

Focus Area

University of Pennsylvania

This project support grant is a co-investment by the Detroit and the American Cities Programs in The Center for Public Service and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania (CPSP), led by former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. View Website

Amount

400000

Year

2025

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

American Cities, Detroit

Focus Area

Partnership for Southern Equity

This grant will support Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions in Southwest Atlanta that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. View Website

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Citizens Research Council of Michigan

This grant provides three years of project support to Citizens Research Council of Michigan to sustain its staff conducting public policy research and analysis focused on the City of Detroit. Funding will support research on a range of issues, including taxation, the City's budget, economic development policy, and service delivery models. View Website

Amount

225000

Year

2025

Location

Livonia, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Detroit River Project

This operational grant will support youth programming including Kids History Ranger Program (component of DRP International Heritage Camp) and DPSCD transnational heritage curriculum adoption. View Website

Amount

50000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

This operational grant will support the coordination, capacity building, and data infrastructure necessary to strengthen Southeast Michigan’s small business ecosystem and expand access to sustainable, inclusive economic opportunity. View Website

Amount

500000

Year

2025

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

West Harlem Environmental Action Inc.

This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Wayne State University

This grant provides two years of continued support for Bloomberg terminal subscriptions that equip students at the Mike Ilitch School of Business with the real-world tools to learn about investment fund management. Grant funds will enable WSU to expand the number of terminals from 12 to 24, enabling the SMIF program to keep up with the significant growth in student interest since the program was launched. View Website

Amount

338,464

Year

2025

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

UPROSE Inc.

This grant will support UPROSE to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Brooklyn, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Summit

This grant supports The Summit Detroit 2025. View Website

Amount

25000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Stories of Us Inc

This grant supports Stories of Us to create storytelling spaces, exhibitions, and inclusive creative spaces in Detroit that explore the Declaration of Independence's core ideals of equity and solidarity, including: an exhibition of 50 sculptures, 11 by Detroit artists (including one permanently gifted to the city); performances promoting civic engagement; a storytelling program capturing Detroiters’ oral histories and sharing stories from other host cities View Website

Amount

125,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Arts and Culture Ecosystem

Race Forward

This grant provides continued general operating support for Race Forward, which works to build a multiracial democracy and a racially equitable society through interlocking strategies of narrative, power building, and institutional practice. The organization works nationally while grounding each of its initiatives in particular communities. View Website

Amount

1,425,000

Year

2025

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health, Human Services

Focus Area

Field Building

Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles

This grant will support Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA), as lead partner of the LEAP-LA coalition, to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. These efforts will help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. PSR-LA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

Amount

$675,000

Year

2025

Location

Los Angeles, California

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Partners for a Healthier Community

This grant will support the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts (PHIWM), which convenes the Live Well Springfield coalition to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Springfield, Massachusetts

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Paradise Valley Cultural and Entertainment Conservancy

This operating support grant will assist Paradise Valley Conservancy (PVC) with organization capacity building (hiring of permanent executive director) and activation of public spaces in the I375 project area. Develop Detroit provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

Amount

200,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

National Medical Association

The National Medical Association will partner with George Mason University Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, to train clinicians from underrepresented backgrounds to become leaders in climate and health advocacy, organizing, and education through the Climate and Health Equity Fellowship (CHEF). View Website

Amount

390,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.

This grant will support National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) experts to provide technical coaching and regional/topic area peer learning cohorts in a variety of subject matters including but not limited to emergency management, environmental health, data systems, policy advocacy, clinic resilience hubs, and heat-health monitoring. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Bethesda, Md.

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Marygrove Conservancy

This grant supports Marygrove Conservancy to engage an architect team to complete a campus framework plan. The campus framework plan will provide a foundational scope for future campus development that will inform the parameters for the design of Kresge's new HQ building and associated public spaces. View Website

Amount

197,000

Year

2025

Location

Detroit, Mich.

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Learning Policy Institute

This grant supports Learning Policy Institute (LPI) for the initial phase of technical assistance through the Alliance for Community Schools and Place-Based Partnerships, bringing together national community schools advocates and place-based partners to assist local communities to protect place-based education funding. View Website

Amount

30000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

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