News & Views Efforts to boost civic engagement by college students receives $1 million from Kresge March 30, 2022 Grants announced to five organizations in face of efforts to suppress student vote. The Kresge Foundation’s Education Program has announced a suite of grants totaling $1,025,000 to student-centered civic engagement initiatives. Young people are particularly concerned about policies relating to college affordability and student debt. These grant commitments affirm the…
Resource The Saving Power of Community Creativity July 15, 2021 As communities begin shifting from COVID-19 immediate response efforts to long-term recovery, now is the time to recognize the true value that arts, culture and Creative Placemaking organizations bring to community revitalization. In a report from the Center for Community Progress and Metris Arts Consulting titled The Saving Power of Community Creativity, community leaders who…
Resource ‘101 Ways to Save the Planet’ podcast featuring Stacey Barbas November 10, 2020 In an episode of the podcast “101 Ways to Save the Planet” Stacey Barbas, senior program officer for health at The Kresge Foundation, talks about the foundation’s Fresh, Local & Equitable initiative (FreshLo). FreshLo seeks to improve access to healthy food, ignite entrepreneurship, spur economic development and integrate arts, culture and community-engaged…
News & Views Kresge grants $2.6 million to organizations confronting COVID-19 in Detroit, New Orleans and Memphis April 16, 2020 Foundation also waives $1M in interest payments for 6 months on active PRIs The Kresge Foundation announced a combined $2.6 million in grants in Detroit, New Orleans and Memphis in a round of funding in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday. Among other uses, $1.55 million in Detroit grant…
News & Views Unique partnership seeks to create greener, cleaner, healthier West Atlanta February 26, 2020 In Atlanta, one inch of rainfall can generate as much as 640 million gallons of stormwater runoff. When rain falls in natural, undeveloped areas, water is absorbed and filtered by soil and plants. But when a city is covered by streets, sidewalks and parking lots, that water may not soak…
News & Views Food, culture, entrepreneurship on the menu at community-led Mercado Esperanza October 29, 2019 In Spanish, the word esperanza translates to “hope” in English. In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the residents of the Esperanza neighborhood aren’t just hoping for better housing, education and access to healthy food, they are stepping up as civic leaders, making their voices heard and creating changes in their community.…
News & Views Kresge Senior Fellow Carol Coletta to continue transformation of Memphis riverfront August 1, 2019 Senior Fellow Carol Coletta – who has been serving as a loaned executive from the Kresge Foundation to the Memphis River Parks Partnership as that organization’s CEO and president since March of 2018 – will be transitioning from Kresge to further advance the reimagination of Memphis’ riverfront. During her tenure…
News & Views Kresge awards record $2.4 million to 25 community projects across Detroit June 5, 2019 The Kresge Foundation today announced a record $2.4 million in grants to 25 nonprofit community organization across the foundation’s hometown through its Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative (KIP:D). “More and more nonprofits – large and small, longstanding and relatively new – are engaging with residents to propose projects that can…
News & Views Putting arts and culture at the center of community building: ArtPlace Summit offers inspiration, vision May 23, 2019 Putting arts and culture at the center of urban community development strategies was the topic of a discussion between Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson and Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba this week at the 7th annual ArtPlace Summit in Jackson. The Summit is the annual gathering of artists,…