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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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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

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

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

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

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

This grant will support Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA) 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. LCJA 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

Fresno, California

Program

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

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA

This grant will support ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability USA in implementing the Communities Leading on Climate Mobility Initiative, a national, multi-sector effort to address climate-driven migration. This initiative aims to build a climate mobility ecosystem by developing local infrastructure and policies that foster resilient, inclusive communities equipped to support those displaced by climate impacts. View Website

Amount

150,000

Year

2025

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

American Cities, Detroit, Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Homewood Children’s Village

This grant will support the Homewood Children's Village (HCV) 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.

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Program

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

Focus Area

Health Care Without Harm

This grant supports Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) in providing national and global leadership at the intersection of climate, health, and equity to transform its network to reduce its environmental footprint and become a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice. Through its Place Based Initiative (PBI) program, HCWH is partnering with health systems (1600 hospitals across 50 states), government, and communities to shift policies, markets, and climate and health equity work practices with a deep focus in Detroit, Miami, Boston, and the San Francisco Bay Area. View Website

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

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

Focus Area

Go! Austin/Vamos! Austin

This grant will support the Go Austin Vamos Austin (GAVA) 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

675000

Year

2025

Location

Austin, Texas

Program

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

Focus Area

George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication

This grant supports The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health (Consortium) that serves as a national convener that mobilizes health professionals to make health and equity central to climate solutions by bridging the gap between clinical expertise and community-led climate action through public messaging, media engagement, and policymaker outreach. George Mason University provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

Amount

660000

Year

2025

Location

Fairfax, VA

Program

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

Focus Area

Essential Hospitals Institute

This grant will support the Essential Hospitals Institute (EHI) mobilize health care and public health professionals, and advance policy, practice and program implementation by supporting place-based community-driven solutions that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

American Cities, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Environmental Health Coalition

This grant will support the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) 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. EHC 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

National City, Calif.

Program

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

Focus Area

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