News & Views Virtuoso jazz bassist and educator Marion Hayden named 2025 Kresge Eminent Artist January 30, 2025
Resource The Free College Handbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Promise Research January 19, 2023 Translating more than a decade of research into actionable strategies, the Free College Handbook: A Practitioners Guide to Promise Research is designed to help understand how reducing college costs can simultaneously help students and the places they live. Funded by a Kresge Education Program CoPro 2.0 grant, the resource is the…
News & Views Life after prison: Operation Restoration founder supports formerly incarcerated women facing barriers April 13, 2022 NOLA-based grassroots organization, led and staffed completely by formerly incarcerated women, restores the whole woman financially, educationally, socially and artistically Editor’s note: Read an article on Operation Restoration published by Inside Philanthropy August 26, 2022. In the world that Syrita Steib inhabits, her name is a near synonym for second…
News & Views Rapson: DeVore will bring his experience as ‘ardent champion’ of kids, region to CFSEM February 11, 2022 The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan brought a protracted search for a new president to an end today when they chose Ric DeVore to take the helm this spring. This is extraordinarily good news for the community foundation, for the region, and for Kresge. Ric has been executive vice president…
News & Views Olayami Dabls, a storyteller with a paintbrush and a street-corner vision, named 2022 Kresge Eminent Artist January 27, 2022 Visionary storyteller, creative place-maker and muralist Olayami Dabls has been named the 2022 Kresge Eminent Artist, an annual metro Detroit award celebrating lifetime achievement in art. The honor includes an unrestricted $50,000 prize. Dabls, who is 73, has been the subject of widespread acclaim for his transformation of two Detroit…
News & Views Kresge elevates new Investment Office leadership September 16, 2021 John A. Barker named Deputy CIO as Robert J. Manilla, current CIO, plans June 2022 retirement; Venus B. Phillips promoted to Managing Director The Kresge Foundation today announced important changes in its Investment Office leadership: Robert J. Manilla, vice president and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) will retire in June 2022.…
News & Views $8.4 million in new grants to combat climate change, improve health in low-income communities April 13, 2021 The Kresge Foundation has awarded $8.4 million in new grants to 14 community-based nonprofit organizations as part of its Climate Change, Health & Equity (CCHE) initiative. With this funding, each grantee partner will work to advance policy solutions aimed at helping cities combat and adapt to climate change, while equitably…
News & Views Deep commitment to historic preservation is fueling Detroit’s community development projects October 20, 2020 Kresge’s Detroit Program team has prioritized investing in the East Jefferson Development Corporation’s (EJDC) remarkable efforts to revitalize the Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood along the Detroit River by providing almost $2 million of operating support for EJDC. Kresge’s Social Investment Practice team recently bought a 30% interest in EJDC for $2 million, the…
Resource Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: Harvard Business School Faculty Weigh In | The Long View August 2, 2013 Originally written for the Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge website (and republished at Forbes.com), “The Long View” is one of three pieces asking what’s ahead for the city of Detroit in the wake of its July 18 filing for bankruptcy. Harvard Associate Professor Eric Werker and Kresge Foundation Senior Program…