News & Views The Kresge Foundation makes multi-year commitment to bolster higher education in South Africa April 17, 2012 The plan builds on efforts to promote access and success in higher education in the U.S. The Kresge Foundation today announced it is renewing its commitment to South African higher education and expects to invest at least $15 million in the effort through 2018. That includes a continuation of its…
Resource Supporting South African higher education through student access and success April 17, 2012 Thank you, Shelagh, for that very kind introduction, and good evening to all of you. As always, we at Kresge cannot thank enough Shelagh Gastrow and all of her team at Inyathelo for all of their hard work putting this event together this evening, and for the years of extraordinary work they…
Resource Kresge Special Initiative in South Africa 2006-2010: Bolstering private giving for higher education April 16, 2012 This is the first in a series highlighting a five-year effort to build the capacity of higher education in South Africa. In a partnership with Inyathelo, the South African Institute for Advancement, the Kresge Special Initiative in South Africa 2006-2010 helped institutions boost private giving threefold. Other narrated slideshows in…
Resource Climate Adaptation as an Evolutionary Process: A White Paper April 6, 2012 A synthesis of information and ideas exchanged at a February, 2012, Kresge workshop focusing on different approaches to problems as well as other lessons in the field of climate-change adaptation. By Ron Brunner and John Nordgren
Resource Community health centers: Leveraging the social determinants of health March 27, 2012 A first-ever examination of community health centers’ role in addressing the social, economic, and physical conditions that contribute to poor health among the patients they serve. The work included the development of a database of 176 initiatives launched by 52 community health centers as well as 10 case studies. By…
Resource 2010-2011 Kresge Annual Report March 1, 2012 By The Kresge Foundation, annual report on the foundation and its grantmaking.
Resource Primary care 2025: A scenario exploration February 7, 2012 A project developed by the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) with support from The Kresge Foundation to explore how Americans could select, pay for and receive primary care, and how patient-doctor relationships may change in the near future. The scenarios are meant to enable leaders in health care to make…
News & Views Detroit’s Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett named 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist January 27, 2012 ‘Godmother of African-American poetry’ credited with fostering young talent. Award-winning poet, editor, and educator Naomi Long Madgett – who nurtured aspiring Detroit poets through her teaching, annual poetry award, and publishing company – has been named the 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist. The award and $50,000 prize recognize Madgett’s decades of…
Resource Constancy in an Environment of Change: The Continuing Case for Detroit January 12, 2012 Address delivered at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
News & Views Kresge remains committed to light rail project on Detroit’s Woodward Avenue December 16, 2011 Light rail and bus rapid transit can work together to revitalize the urban core and improve regional transit. Rip Rapson, the president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, today issued a statement formally responding to this week’s announcement that a long-planned light rail project in Detroit would be abandoned in…