News & Views Living Cities Funds Strategic and Innovative Approach to Foreclosure Crisis in Detroit July 17, 2008 Reprinted with permission from Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative. TROY, MICHIGAN – Foreclosures, like the subprime lending that precipitated them, have been heavily concentrated in vulnerable neighborhoods. The resulting vacant and abandoned properties threaten values of neighboring homeowners, invite crime, and discourage further investment. In response, Living Cities,…
News & Views MIT’s Chancellor, Phillip L. Clay, Joins The Kresge Foundation Board of Trustees July 3, 2008 Clay brings an extensive background in education, housing and urban development. Troy, Michigan – The Kresge Foundation is pleased to announce Phillip L. Clay, a prominent leader in higher education, a noted researcher and author, and an influential advisor on U.S. housing policy and community-based development, has joined its board of…
News & Views Kresge Announces Two New Grantmaking Programs – the Health Program and the Environment Program June 27, 2008 TROY, MICHIGAN – The Kresge Foundation’s long-standing interest in the fields of health and the environment has led to the formation, in June 2008, of two major, comprehensive programs: the Health Program and the Environment Program. Historically, the foundation has worked in six fields of interest: health, the environment, arts…
Resource The new values-centered grantmaking June 20, 2008 Kristina Moore, communications director for the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, interviews Rip Rapson about The Kresge Foundation’s new approach to grantmaking, the challenges it faced in implementing the changes and lessons learned.
News & Views Rip Rapson, Kresge President and CEO, Talks About New Values-Centered Grantmaking in Responsive Philanthropy June 20, 2008 Reprinted with permission from the National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy’s journal, Responsive Philanthropy, Spring 2008. TROY, MICHIGAN – For more than 83 years, the Detroit-based Kresge Foundation has helped build the country’s nonprofit infrastructure, from libraries and schools to food banks and community centers. This $3.9 billion private foundation recently…
Resource Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson discusses new values-centered grantmaking June 20, 2008 TROY, Mich. – For more than 83 years, the Detroit-based Kresge Foundation has helped build the country’s nonprofit infrastructure, from libraries and schools to food banks and community centers. This $3.9 billion private foundation recently unveiled a new values-centered approach to its grantmaking as its way of responding to the…
News & Views Kresge Achieves Highest-level LEED Platinum Certification for Design, Construction and Operation of its Headquarters June 5, 2008 The decision to build green underscores the foundation’s commitment to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and finding solutions to global climate change. TROY, MICHIGAN – The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded The Kresge Foundation headquarters Platinum certification, the highest attainable level in the LEED – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design…
Resource 2008 Kresge Eminent Charles McGee June 4, 2008 2008 Kresge Eminent Artist Charles McGee talks his visual art and working in Detroit. The Eminent Artist recognizes an exceptional artist for professional achievements and contributions to the cultural community. The award also encourages that individual’s pursuit of a chosen art form and an ongoing commitment to metropolitan Detroit. (Videographer:…
Resource The fifth sector: Philanthropy’s role in community change April 7, 2008 The private and public sectors, nonprofits and the academic world: structural limits hobble the ability of each to lead efforts for community change. So it falls to philanthropy to step forward. (Guest lecture, Mertie W. Buckman Fellowship for Leadership in Philanthropy at the University of Minnesota College of Design.)
Resource Philanthropy at a crossroads March 26, 2008 Philanthropy cannot substitute for the public sector. But we can, by deeply committing to a place over a long period of time, help identify an aspirational horizon line and invest selectively in those activities that keep a community’s collective vision and voice focused on that horizon. (Address to the Maine…