Resource Bill Harris: 2011 Kresge Eminent Artist September 16, 2011 By The Kresge Foundation, a monograph on the life and work of this literary artist and 2011 recipient of the Kresge Eminent Artist Award. (2011). The Kresge Foundation. ALSO SEE: Announcement of Harris’s selection Harris talk about writing and teaching “the Detroit way” in a video
News & Views 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…
Resource 2007 Perception Survey July 28, 2011 A report by The Center for Effective Philanthropy commissioned by The Kresge Foundation, Summer 2007.
Resource 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.
Resource 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…
Resource Farmworkers at the border: A bilingual initiative for occupational health and safety June 28, 2011 By Soledad Vela Acosta, M., Sechrest, L., & Chen, M-K. (2009). Public Health Reports, 124 (Supplement 1), 143–151.
Resource Re-Imagining Land-Use in Detroit: Is it Really Possible? April 18, 2011 Address to the American Assembly in Detroit, Michigan.
Resource 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…
Resource A decade of change: Where does it leave the smart-growth movement? Where does it leave Detroit? March 21, 2011 Fundamental shifts in our social, political and economic systems carry momentous implications for philanthropy's role in promoting the institutions, values and practices of smart growth and livable communities. (Address to the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.)
News & Views 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…