News & Views 34 artists named 2024 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award winners, awarded $1 million June 27, 2024 Largest fellowship cohort in history of program will receive $40,000 each Thirty-four metro Detroit artists will share an unrestricted $1 million through the 2024 Kresge Artist Fellowships and Gilda Snowden Emerging Artist Awards. The artists awarded the no strings attached prize were announced today by the Kresge Arts in Detroit…
News & Views Kresge invests millions into Reinvestment Fund’s HBCU Brilliance Initiative June 27, 2024 Reinvestment Fund’s HBCU Brilliance Initiative received an investment of $4.25 million from The Kresge Foundation that will support critical investments in the facilities, financial health and the overall growth of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the country. The HBCU Brilliance Initiative was created and designed in recognition of…
News & Views Daughters Beyond Incarceration champion support for youth impacted by parental incarceration June 26, 2024
News & Views Op-ed: In a warming world, nurses heal people and the planet June 25, 2024 Nurses have the experience, motivation and public support to make an important contribution in tackling the climate crises. During the COVID pandemic, the world cheered as we nurses stepped up. Everyone knows we are essential workers, but our essential role in coping with the climate crisis is much less cheered…
News & Views Detroit & the American City Symposium looked to past and future of city and foundation June 20, 2024
News & Views LeFlore: We need remedies that purposefully correct injustice in community development June 19, 2024 Study highlights role for minority depository institutions From the beginning of our country’s history, Black communities have been disinvested in — often intentionally. For much of the 20th century redlining and other exclusionary policies forbade lending in Black communities, segregating our cities. While laws such as the Fair Housing Act…
Resource The Social Impact of MDI Mortgage Lending June 19, 2024 The Social Impact of MDI Mortgage Lending, a new Kresge-supported paper from the National Bankers Association, BankBlack and the Hip Hop Caucus, explores lending by minority depository institutions (MDIs) from 2019 to 2022, highlighting the social impact of MDI mortgage lending, particularly as compared to lending from other types of…