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…
Resource Grantee perceptions essential to the philosophical and programmatic expansion of our grantmaking March 3, 2008 To embark on an expansion of our grantmaking with a well-rounded understanding of where we stand within the grantmaking community, The Kresge Foundation commissioned the Center for Effective Philanthropy to survey recent grantees, along with applicants who have been declined, about their perceptions of the foundation. In speeches, President’s Corner…
Resource 2007 Kresge Annual Report January 1, 2008 By The Kresge Foundation, annual report on the foundation and its grantmaking.
Resource New directions, new tools: A study of change at The Kresge Foundation December 4, 2007 The seriousness of the challenges facing contemporary society and the dizzying pace of change embedded in those challenges demand that any institution with the capacity to do so – particularly large, privately endowed foundations such as The Kresge Foundation – deploy their resources in ways that promise the greatest possible…