The community-based Southwest Detroit youth group promotes the holistic development of young people in urban settings through relationship building, community education and passion-driven projects. This grant provides project support to Young Nation to transform a vacant corner lot in Southwest Detroit into a community-designed park for informal gatherings, recreation and formal programming as part of Round 5 of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative. View Website

Young Invincibles (YI) is a national organization that focuses on empowering young Americans with information regarding health care, jobs, entrepreneurship and higher education.  This two-year grant supports YI's capacity to drive forward higher education campaigns that protect and improve policies serving students from low-income households on the federal and state level. View Website

Young Invincibles (YI) is a national organization that focuses on empowering young Americans with information regarding health care, jobs, entrepreneurship and higher education. This grant will support the Students Learn Students Vote sub-granting competition focused on catalyzing student voting at minority-serving institutions and community colleges. View Website

Young Invincibles (YI) is a national organization that focuses on empowering young Americans with information regarding health care, jobs, entrepreneurship and higher education. This grant suuports supports a sub-granting competition focused on catalyzing student voting at minority-serving institutions and community colleges.  View Website

The YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit has served southeast Michigan communities by recognizing social trends, anticipating community needs and responding with programs and facilities that address local concerns and improve the local quality of life. This grant provides general operating support to YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit - Y Arts as part of Round 6 of the Detroit Arts Support (DAS) initiative, which provides unrestricted support to arts and culture organizations of all disciplines and sizes across the metropolitan Detroit area. View Website

The Yakima Valley Conference of Governments' mission is to provide member jurisdictions a regional network for professional community planning, transportation, grant writing, GIS and facilitate coordinated efforts on matters of mutual concern. This grant will support Yakima Valley Conference of Governments  in its efforts to develop a resident-centered, systems-level regional housing plan that highlights opportunities to improve housing quality and affordability. View Website

The World Resources Institute (WRI) works to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth's environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. This grant supports the research, development and piloting in San Francisco of an innovative governance and financing mechanism called a Joint Benefits Authority (JBA), a mechanism to scale up green infrastructure in San Francisco and beyond. View Website

Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation has served the Woodbridge neighborhood since 2002 through community engagement, community programming, and the physical redevelopment of buildings and public spaces. This grant provides project support to Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation to reactivate an abandoned elementary school into a neighborhood hub and center for resident engagement as part of Round 5 of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative.    View Website

Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources. This grant will support the Wallace Center  help build a coordinated approach for more effective partnerships between communities and institutions by strengthening community partners’ ability to leverage and increase institutional investment towards equitable food systems development. View Website

Whole Child Strategies, Inc. empowers neighborhoods and communities disproportionately affected by poverty to self- determination in addressing barriers hindering children from graduating on-time, career and college-ready – providing funding, critical supports and coordinated efforts around collective accountability, public advocacy and community development. This grant provides project support for Whole Child Strategies, Inc.’s Neighborhood and Youth Council to undertake a series of projects identified by community members to improve educational attainment in the Klondike/Smokey City neighborhood as part of the pilot round of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Memphis (KIP:M) initiative. View Website

West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. is a Northern Manhattan community-based organization whose mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low-income participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. to develop a resident-driven health and housing policy agenda and build the capacity of residents to influence the New York City Housing Authority. View Website

West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT for Environmental Justice) is a Northern Manhattan community-based organization whose mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low-income participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. This grant will support WE ACT to develop a resident-driven health and housing policy agenda and build the capacity of residents to influence the New York City Housing Authority.  View Website

This planning grant will enable West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT) to develop a community-driven roadmap for equitable policies and resource allocation to reduce vulnerability to climate-change related extreme heat and the urban heat island effect in northern Manhattan. WE ACT is one of 15 organizations selected as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity (CCHE) initiative. View Website

This grant will support the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University to administer and provide technical support for the AmeriCorps Urban Safety program, a citywide crime prevention initiative in two Detroit neighborhoods. ComStat is a data-driven approach to crime prevention that maps problem areas, connects incidents and establishes a common problem-solving process between law enforcement and community stakeholders to discuss tactics and interventions.   View Website

As a nationally recognized urban public research university, Wayne State's mission is to create knowledge and prepare a diverse body of students to excel in an increasingly complex and global society. This grant provides general operating support to Wayne State University’s Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre & Dance as part of Round 6 of the Detroit Arts Support (DAS) initiative, which provides unrestricted support to arts and culture organizations of all disciplines and sizes across the metropolitan Detroit area. View Website

As a nationally recognized urban public research university, Wayne State's mission is to create knowledge and prepare a diverse body of students to excel in an increasingly complex and global society. This grant provides general operating support to the Department of Art & Art History at Wayne State University as part of Round 6 of the Detroit Arts Support (DAS) initiative, which provides unrestricted support to arts and culture organizations of all disciplines and sizes across the metropolitan Detroit area. View Website

As a nationally recognized urban public research university, Wayne State's mission is to create knowledge and prepare a diverse body of students to excel in an increasingly complex and global society. This grant provides general operating support to the Freer House at Wayne State University as part of Round 6 of the Detroit Arts Support (DAS) initiative, which provides unrestricted support to arts and culture organizations of all disciplines and sizes across the metropolitan Detroit area. View Website

As a nationally recognized urban public research university, Wayne State's mission is to create knowledge and prepare a diverse body of students to excel in an increasingly complex and global society. This grant provides general operating support to Wayne State University's Wayne State Press as part of Round 6 of the Detroit Arts Support (DAS) initiative, which provides unrestricted support to arts and culture organizations of all disciplines and sizes across the metropolitan Detroit area. View Website

As a nationally recognized urban public research university, Wayne State's mission is to create knowledge and prepare a diverse body of students to excel in an increasingly complex and global society. This grant provides general operating support to Wayne State University’s WDET Radio as part of Round 6 of the Detroit Arts Support (DAS) initiative, which provides unrestricted support to arts and culture organizations of all disciplines and sizes across the metropolitan Detroit area. View Website

The Vollintine Evergreen Community Association (VECA) is a group of residents working to improve the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood by working with each other, businesses, law enforcement, representatives of both city and county government, and nonprofit and institutional stakeholders and neighboring community organizations. This project grant provides support for the Vollintine Evergreen Community Association to redevelop an abandoned commercial building to serve as a community hub, and to complete associated streetscape improvements as part of the pilot round of the Kresge Innovative Projects: Memphis (KIP:M) initiative. View Website