This grant will launch strategies including fellowships, a train-the-trainer curriculum, and workshops that strengthen Detroit students’ pathways to and from HBCUs. Kresge-funded research shows that HBCUs are popular among Detroiters, but high school guidance counselors have limited knowledge of this postsecondary option. It will be piloted with youth-serving organizations on Marygrove’s campus. View Website

Working through Latinx media, the Detroit Voces project will create oral histories of Detroit immigrants and mixed-status families facing detention and deportation. View Website

The United Way for Southeastern Michigan and the Detroit Parks Coalition will install literacy learning activities in eight Detroit parks to complement literacy programming led by neighborhood partners. View Website

This grant will support the New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy to engage a Senior Fellow to assess opportunities to further deepen the integration of research within its Human Rights Economy framework with an initial focus on baby bonds, budget equity, color of wealth, color of achievement, and AI to inform public engagement and field building. This is a cross-team grant with the Detroit team. View Website

This general operating support grant enables Smart Growth America to help create healthy, prosperous, and resilient places to live for all people through research, advocacy, and direct support to community-based organizations, practitioners, and government at the intersection of transportation, climate, creativity, and housing issues. This cross-team investment reflects the importance of integrated approaches to tackling these issues and helping combat climate change, improve health outcomes, and connect residents to economic opportunity while uniquely applying arts and cultural methodologies for community engagement, research, and capacity-building. View Website

This grant supports the RTA’s transition from planning to execution of its newly adopted three-year strategic plan by strengthening leadership alignment, organizational structure, and performance management. Kresge funds will support an external consulting partner to guide change management, clarify roles and decision-making, align workflows to strategic priorities, and embed disciplined execution practices. View Website

This grant provides project support to Policy Equity Group (PEG) to support backbone functions to implement the Hope Starts Here framework. PEG will continue to facilitate coordination action among imperative leads, develop and implement a policy agenda, and strengthen and sustain Hope Starts Here’s systems change approach in the long-term. PEG will also provide a comprehensive, independent assessment of the Marygrove Early Education Center. View Website

Transforming Solidarity Collective is a collaboration of five nonprofit intermediaries that provide technical assistance to Detroit nonprofit organizations to navigate the changes in the federal policy environment. View Website

This grant to Michigan Community Resources (MCR) supports the continuation of the long‑standing partnership between MCR, Co.act, and The Kresge Foundation to co‑manage Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit (KIP:D) for Round 10. Funding enables MCR to provide technical assistance to KIP:D awardees, as well as tailored support to applicants and unfunded organizations. View Website

This grant provides funding for the Marygrove Conservancy Support Corporation (MCSC) to fund the fifth of seven annual payments into a sinking fund designated to repay the New Markets Tax Credit financing of the Marygrove Early Education Center. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Live6 Alliance to design, implement and manage initiatives that anchor Kresge’s investment strategy in the Livernois-McNichols district. This grant consolidates Kresge support for initiatives that will launch in 2026, including program costs and staffing capacity to implement the Resident Investment and Opportunity Fund, Neighborhood Association Operating Grants, land use pilots and planning, and commercial corridor sustainability and activation initiatives. View Website

This general operating support grant will sustain core operations, expand community-centered programming and engagement, and build organizational capacity for the Joe Louis Greenway Partnership as the Greenway is fully developed into an equitable, regional public space. View Website

This renewal grant supports ICLEI–Local Governments for Sustainability USA to advance its Communities Leading on Climate Mobility Initiative, strengthening local government capacity to plan for and respond to climate‑driven displacement in ways that advance resilience, equity, and shared prosperity. ICLEI will deepen and expand local pilot projects (including exploratory pilots in Detroit and New Orleans), broaden cohort‑based learning and peer exchange, and strengthen cross‑sector coordination. View Website

This grant provides funding for Live6 Alliance to join the Detroit Home Repair Fund (DHRF) as a Non-Profit Partner and to complete 15 homes in the Livernois- McNichols geography. There is a great need for home repair in Fitzgerald, but existing resources have been limited in scope. Home repair was elevated as a strategy for stabilization in every planning study over the last decade, including the Action Agenda Plan. Supporting Liv 6 Alliance's inclusion in DHRF will have allow for homeowners to receive more comprehensive repairs and address a longstanding issue identified by residents. View Website

This grant will sponsor Shimmer on the River 2026, the annual fundraiser for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. View Website

This grant provides project support to the Detroit Parks Coalition (DPC) to coordinate stewardship and activation of neighborhood parks and public spaces in Detroit, with a particular focus on public spaces in the Livernois-McNichols district and Southwest Detroit. Through this grant, DPC will: 1) Coordinate parks programming to ensure that neighborhood parks are activated and provide access to programs that improve quality of life and social cohesion within neighborhoods; 2) Coordinate between neighborhood parks stewards and the City of Detroit to ensure neighborhood parks programming and infrastructure improvements reflect community priorities; and 3) Operate a citywide summer regranting program to support community parks stewards that offer programming at neighborhood parks. View Website

This project supports the Fred and Barbara Erb Public Media Campus for Detroit PBS and 90.9 WRCJ. Detroit Public Television, the community-owned nonprofit media organization serving Southeast Michigan since 1955, is relocating its headquarters to Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood by adapting a historic warehouse building (at 234 Piquette Avenue) into a centralized hub for public media, journalism, arts, education, and community engagement. Kresge funding will support coordination and development activities to consolidate 90.9 WRCJ, the Detroit-based newsroom, and Detroit PBS headquarters into one centralized location, improving efficiency and collaboration across operations. View Website

This cross-team grant (Detroit and Education) supports the Detroit College Access Network, a longtime grantee co-founded by Kresge, and an essential intermediary that reduces fragmentation across the postsecondary pipeline by aligning K-12, higher education, community-based organizations and other partners around shared strategies and milestones promoting college access and success. View Website

This grant provides project support to Detroit Champions of Hope (DCH) to serve as an imperative lead focused on parent and family engagement and advocacy to implement the Hope Starts Here (HSH) framework. DCH will continue to equip and train parents as early childhood advocates and navigators, who in turn provide outreach and navigation supports for families and providers to access early childhood resources. Everybody Ready will be the fiscal organization for this grant. View Website

This grant supports the Kresge Education Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM), which will provide funding to pay for capital improvements made on the Marygrove campus between 2018-2024 to implement the Marygrove Transformation Project. View Website