News & Views Q&A: Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative chief on increasing housing security November 8, 2023 Veronica Reed is the executive director of Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, a New Orleans-based nonprofit and Kresge Foundation grantee with a mission to transform unjust housing policies, discriminatory practices and inequitable development. Founded in 2008, staff at Jane Place engage in strategies that increase housing security and expand access…
Resource Community Colleges & Human Services Nonprofits BOOSTing Family Economic Success Through Organizational Policy and Practice November 8, 2023 Forging connections between community colleges and human services providers makes it possible to build stronger pathways that include both learning opportunities and social supports. In a new brief, Jobs for the Future explores how community colleges and human services nonprofits can partner to advance multigenerational family economic success. The paper highlights…
News & Views 2023 Unity Summit urges philanthropy to use its power to advance racial justice November 2, 2023 Editor’s note: Nearly 20 Kresge staff members attended the CHANGE Philanthropy Unity Summit to build connections between funders and communities. In this commentary, Kresge Communications Officer and Equity Task Force Co-Chair Kaniqua Welch and Special Assistant to the President Chris LeFlore share key learnings from the conference that can be…
Resource Grantmakers in Health 2023 Survey Summary: Climate Change Strategies October 31, 2023 Our opportunity and ability to thrive — as individuals, families, communities and as a country — is in danger because of the increasing instability of our climate. This infographic summarizes the responses to a Grantmakers In Health funder survey, conducted in May and June 2023 with support from The Kresge…
Resource Just Solutions Podcast: Climate justice stories from BIPOC environmental justice leaders October 26, 2023 The Just Solutions Collective, a grantee of Kresge’s Environment Program, has launched a podcast focused on community-created solutions and climate policies that strengthen the health, economic security, and resiliency of frontline environmental justice communities. Through the Just Solutions Podcast, Executive Director Aiko Schaeffer interviews BIPOC leaders who are working to…
News & Views Strong Start to Finish adds four new educational systems to network October 26, 2023 This week, Strong Start to Finish (SSTF) announced four state higher education systems and associations — the Colorado Department of Higher Education, Louisiana Board of Regents, Michigan Center for Student Success, and Tennessee Board of Regents — it’s adding to its network to implement developmental education reforms. Collectively, these four…
News & Views Grants awarded to new cohort of public health, community leaders to advance health equity October 24, 2023 Fifteen teams of rising public health and community leaders from around the country have been selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Public Health Regenerative Leadership Synergy (PHEARLESS) initiative. Supported by an investment of more than $8.5 million from The Kresge Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and…
News & Views New monograph on the life and works of Kresge Eminent Artist Melba Joyce Boyd available now October 20, 2023 The words of Melba Joyce Boyd “roar in remembrance … to make you hear the lessons of injustice and the workaday heroes who in their resistance, their survival, keep culture moving,” says writer Nichole Christian in the newly released monograph on the life and art of the 2023 Kresge Eminent…
Resource Melba Joyce Boyd: 2023 Kresge Eminent Artist monograph, “The Book of Melba” October 20, 2023 “The Book of Melba” is a Kresge-produced monograph on the life and works of 2023 Kresge Eminent Artist Melba Joyce Boyd. An award-winning poet, essayist, biographer, editor, distinguished professor and filmmaker, Boyd is the 15th metro Detroit artist to receive the annual award in recognition of lifelong professional achievements in…
News & Views Rapson: 3 factors key in seeing historic public investments land equitably across America October 19, 2023 This commentary is an edited version of the opening remarks from the joint Brookings Institution and Kresge convening: Helping Communities Make the Most of Public Investment, held on Oct. 18, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Visit the convening webpage here. A video replay of the event will be posted when available.…