Reports The future of urban climate action: Shaping systems for equitable, long-term change September 16, 2025 Environment
Speeches Remarks for Kresge Arts in Detroit award celebration: Three Bass-ic Lessons from Marion Hayden July 21, 2025 Detroit
Presentations and Drawings Climate Resilience and Urban Opportunity Initiative learning event Kresge’s Environment Program hosts a peer-learning event in Berkeley, Calif. with grantees from its Climate Resilience and Urban Opportunity Initiative Jan. 26-28. Participants include representatives from 17 nonprofit organizations awarded… Presentations and Drawings January 22, 2015 Environment
Reports Arts and Culture in Detroit: Central to Our Past and Our Future Kresge Foundation President and CEO Rip Rapson wrote this article on the role of arts and culture in Detroit’s revitalization for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s journal Community… Reports January 8, 2015 Arts & Culture, Detroit
Reports What Can Foundations Do to Foster Community Investment? 10 Roles for Philanthropy The Kresge Foundation and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation are sponsoring a project designed to improve the ability of cities to attract and deploy socially motivated investment capital… Reports December 11, 2014 Social Investment Practice
Commentary Newsletters What Detroit can teach us all Retired public employees and artwork: two civic assets rarely thought of in the same breath. But in Detroit – and, indeed, in countless cities across the country – the duo… Commentary Newsletters December 11, 2014
Speeches Cross-sector collaboration is vital to economic development Community and economic development presents a constellation of challenges so intertwined and complex that it will be the increasingly rare circumstance in which these challenges can be resolved through neat… Speeches November 13, 2014