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A blue brick background with the text: The Kresge Foundation PathBreakers 2024 Annual Report, and an illustration of a diverse group of twelve community leaders.

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Introducing: 2024 Annual Report, ‘PathBreakers’, and Kresge podcast

June 17, 2025

General Foundation News

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Bridging innovation: New Orleans BioDistrict leaders learn alongside Memphis Medical District

June 23, 2025

American Cities

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25 artists named 2025 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award winners

June 26, 2025

Detroit

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9 nonprofits to share $1.3M for neighborhood projects in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park

August 27, 2024

Detroit

A graphic with the cover of the book Embracing a City: The Kresge Foundation in Detroit 1993-2023, and text: The balance of attention between Detroit's downtown and neighborhoods had become grimly askew.

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Excerpt: Focusing on neighborhoods beyond the city’s core became an imperative

April 22, 2024

Centennial, Detroit

A graphic with the text: Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit +, and a map of Detroit, Highland Park and Hamtramck

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$1.3M in grants available for community organizations through Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus

March 5, 2024

Detroit

Two people, eleven24 Executive Director Tonjie Reese with a purple shirt that reads “Respect & Trust & Honesty & Support & Freedom & Boundaries” and Program Coordinator Erica Mickens with a white shirt that reads “Communications & Autonomuy & Support & Fairness & Gratitude & Love”, are standing in a field in front of the “Spirit” mural of a woman in a bandana with the word Detroit on it holding a shining orb.

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2023 KIP:D+ grantees awarded $1.5M for Detroit-area place-based community projects

July 27, 2023

Detroit

Four leaders of the Detroit Sound Conservancy stand in front of the Blue Bird Inn

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$1.3 million in grants fund 28 community-based projects in Detroit, Highland Park and Hamtramck through KIP:D+

June 23, 2022

Detroit

Collage of photos of early Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit efforts, including men with shovels working near a cement mixer, lawn mowers set out for a community cleanup, a woman cutting a ribbon for park exercise equipment, picture of teen at piano at a boxing gym, etc.

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Evaluation is moment to look back and ahead for Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit

June 1, 2021

Detroit

A quote card with the photo, name and title of Kresge President & CEO Rip Rapson, and the quote: "Nothing in the vicissitudes of the emergent political environment changes our commitment to (our) values. We will work as we have, understanding full well that we may need to … meet the particulars of a new reality and provide our community partners with support different in kind or magnitude from what we’ve provided before now."

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Anchored in shared values: How we all move forward together

November 4, 2024

From the President

Adults and schoolchildren on a vacant lot that the Eastside Community Network will turn into a rain garden

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Evaluation finds Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit fosters quality of life, community cohesion

April 28, 2021

Detroit

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Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit grants engage neighborhoods across city

August 6, 2020

Detroit

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Kresge grants $1.9 million for 28 new projects and planning efforts to transform Detroit neighborhoods

August 6, 2020

Detroit

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