About The Detroit Program

The Detroit Program works with a range of partners, including resident leaders, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and state and city governments.

We believe centering people, racial equity and place is crucial to the broad, equitable development needed across neighborhoods of the iconic city that is our hometown. This is an evolution of Kresge’s Reimagining Detroit 2020 framework, now anchored by the framework’s neighborhood module. To that end, we work toward leadership and community development that supports and improves quality of life for all Detroiters, beginning with our next generation of young leaders and enriched through the power of the city’s arts and culture ecosystem. In this matrix of relationships, we place our highest priority on neighborhood-based organizations that reflect community. These organizations are best able to ensure that the history of structural racism and bias do not shape our city’s future. This leads the Detroit Program to a posture of listening to people and community; being humble, respectful and inclusive; challenging power narratives, our own included; and acting with intention.