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Public-private collaboration puts arts at center of community revitalization

September 16, 2011

Foundations work with National Endowment for the Arts to make $11.5 million investment in dozens of cities nationwide. DETROIT – Eleven private philanthropies have joined with the National Endowment for the Arts and a number of federal agencies to establish ArtPlace, a nationwide initiative to drive community revitalization with a…

2007 Perception Survey

July 28, 2011

A report by The Center for Effective Philanthropy commissioned by The Kresge Foundation, Summer 2007.

Measuring Collaboration: The Benefits and Impacts of Nonprofit Centers

July 15, 2011

A first-ever assessment of organizations sharing facilities in the U.S. and Canada by The Nonprofit Centers Network reports on the benefits of organizations co-locating and sharing resources. The Nonprofit Centers Network is a program of Tides. Kresge is one of the foundations that funded the study.

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What’s next: Philanthropy in an age of government retrenchment

June 29, 2011

Despite The Kresge Foundation’s efforts to provide emergency relief to community-based organizations caught in the grip of economic crisis, the realization that much of the rest of the philanthropic ecosystem is better suited to rise to that immediate challenge has led us to assess how we might identify philanthropic acupuncture…

Art X Detroit: Why art matters

April 11, 2011

Art X Detroit demonstrates why the arts are so powerful in this time and place; makes connections across the past, the present and the future; and views our community through a lens that substitutes for a tired and incomplete view of a city in decline a fresh, unexpected view of…

Kresge sponsors Art X Detroit: A new Detroit arts experience in Midtown, April 6-10, 2011

February 10, 2011

The event, located in the city’s cultural district, will showcase new works of Kresge’s Eminent Artists and Fellowship winners. TROY, Mich. – The Kresge Foundation will sponsor Art X Detroit, a free, five-day series of exhibitions, presentations, readings, discussions, concerts and dance performances for the Detroit community. Art X will…

Poet and playwright Bill Harris is named 2011 Kresge Eminent Artist

January 27, 2011

Detroit’s distinguished author, literary critic, and college educator receives $50,000 prize from The Kresge Foundation. TROY, Mich. – Renowned literary artist and educator Bill Harris – whose poetry, prose, and playwriting have won him acclaim from Detroit to New York City – has been named the 2011 Kresge Eminent Artist…