News & Views Loyiso Nongxa October 14, 2017 Dr. Loyiso Nongxa, former vice chancellor at the University of the Witwatersand (Wits), learned a simple lesson through his work with Inyathelo and the Kresge Foundation: When it comes to fundraising, his face mattered. “One of the things I learned when we professionalized development was that the face of advancement…
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,…
Resource Detroit Arts Support 2019 Guidelines April 11, 2019 For over 10 years, the Detroit Arts Support (DAS) initiative has provided unrestricted operating funding to arts and cultural organizations in the metro Detroit region. The program aims to strengthen the sector broadly through consistent support for a large and diverse set of organizations that contribute to the quality of…
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 Neighborhood HomeBase opens new chapter for Detroit’s Livernois-McNichols area April 24, 2019 Clockwise from top left: Kresge’s Joi James, Jonathan Hui, Rip Rapson, W. Kim Heron, Wendy Lewis Jackson, Live6 Alliance Executive Director Cecily King, and Kresge’s Chantel Rush pose in front of the new Neighborhood HomeBase in Northwest Detroit. Government, civic and neighborhood leaders today announced the opening of Neighborhood HomeBase,…
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.”