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…
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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 Looking Back: Expanding Kresge’s financial toolbox through social investing May 21, 2024
Resource Kresge releases white paper “Rethinking Neighborhood Change and Tracking Progress” January 9, 2019 This advisory summarizes and links to The Kresge Foundation Arts & Culture Program’s Creative Placemaking white paper, “Rethinking Neighborhood Change and Tracking Progress.”
News & Views Kresge Foundation announces awardees of new grantmaking initiative in Memphis June 14, 2017 The Kresge Foundation announced today that 10 organizations will receive a total of $1.3 million in grant support to boost opportunity for residents of Memphis. “Today marks a significant acceleration of Kresge’s commitment to Memphis,” said Chantel Rush, program officer with the American Cities Practice, who helped oversee the grantee…
Resource Rethinking Neighborhood Change and Tracking Progress December 30, 2018 This paper discusses developments in the conception and assessment of Creative Placemaking initiatives and the assessment of comprehensive community development strategies. The observations and insights stem from a small but growing body of research on the roles of arts and culture in communities, as well as from well-established literature on…
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…