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"Creating a state Child Tax Credit, making child care more affordable and accessible in Michigan, and ensuring all Michigan families can meet basic needs like housing, health care and food are all critical." - Monique Stanton. President & CEO, Michigan League for Public Policy.

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Family-friendly policies can help keep people in Michigan and create economic opportunity

May 15, 2025

Detroit

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Three historic buildings are highlighted in this overhead shot of a city street.

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Empowering communities to combat the affordable housing crisis with OppCo Housing Accelerator Fund

May 15, 2025

Health

A large group of students and fraternity members are gathered on a stage with a sign behind them that reads From Detroit 2 the Yard.

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Lee: College Decision Day provides a moment of validation for student achievement and aspiration

May 14, 2025

Education

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A group photo of people in white Detroit Horse Power T-shirts pose together in a stable with a horse.

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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

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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

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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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