The Kresge Foundation

06/05/2026

How do you keep on going when the pathway isn’t clear? In our latest PathBreakers episode, Simone Sagovac of the Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition (), offers advice in this clip on how to move forward and get results.

You can stream the full episode on all your favorite podcast platforms. Simone joins co-hosts Tracey Lynn Pearson () and Jamie Bennett () to discuss the decade-long fight to secure $48 million in community benefits to address the impact on environmental health, housing stability, job access and quality of life as a $6 billion international bridge is built in the neighborhood.

06/03/2026

When a $6 billion bridge comes to your neighborhood, who decides what the residents get in return? Southwest Detroit's Delray neighborhood has long borne the brunt of life next to the Ambassador Bridge – one of the busiest commercial truck crossings between the U.S. and Canada — with cracked foundations, sleepless nights, kids kept indoors.

On the latest PathBreakers podcast, Simone Sagovac shares how the Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition formed the moment a second international bridge was announced in 2008 — and used 17 years of organizing, resident-led data collection and relentless coalition-building to win protections for the neighborhood and secure $48 million in community benefits.

Sagovac joins co-hosts Tracey Lynn Pearson and Jamie Bennett as they explore how a neighborhood living at one of North America's busiest freight crossings is rewriting who gets to author its future. Stream on all your favorite podcast platforms.

06/02/2026

06/01/2026

“Building Tomorrow” is a special collaboration between Marketplace and This Old House Radio Hour that asks a simple but urgent question: How do we build homes that can last the next hundred years?

06/01/2026

The deadline to apply for Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus is today, June 1.

05/29/2026

“People are very honest with us, you know, they tell us when they don’t like certain things that we’re doing … we’ve heard it all over the years, the good, bad and ugly.

Listen to Live6 Alliance Executive Director Cailtin Murphy on the importance of listening and learning to pivot to earn and keep the trust of your neighborhood residents. Murphy joins co-hosts Tracey Pearson and Jamie Bennett in our latest PathBreakers podcast. Stream the entire episode on all your favorite podcast platforms.

https://kresge.org/pathbreakers-podcast/

05/27/2026

WATCH LIVE TODAY AT 1:00 P.M. ET: If Michigan is serious about becoming a top-10 education state, we have an extraordinary opportunity to learn from the place-based efforts already underway across the state that are reimagining education from cradle to career.

Join me and three state leaders at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference for our panel "From Cradle to Career: What It Takes to Make Michigan a Top-10 Education State":

• Jeff Donofrio, President and CEO, Business Leaders For Michigan
• Elizabeth Moje, Dean, University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education
• Nikolai Vitti, Superintendent, Detroit Public Schools Community District

Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_xkbDrtwRw

05/27/2026

WATCH LIVE AT 11:20 A.M. ET: Join former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference. He will be joined by Chamber President Sandy K. Baruah in a conversation focusing on the conference theme of "A Quest for Common Ground” and transportation issues.

Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_xkbDrtwRw

05/26/2026

“There’s been a fraught relationship between Black folks and the media ... the way this city works — and the way media needs to understand how the city works — is relational, not extraction.”

Outlier Media () Executive Director Orlando Bailey’s () joins co-hosts Tracey Pearson () and Jamie Bennett () to explore how a Detroit newsroom turned journalism into infrastructure for neighborhood power.

Watch or listen to the full PathBreakers podcast episode wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ajyr8OQY0Tc

05/22/2026

How would you describe the city of Detroit?

Listen to Outlier Media () Executive Director Orlando Bailey’s () poignant answer to that question.

Watch or listen to the full PathBreakers podcast episode where Bailey joins co-hosts Tracey Pearson () and Jamie Bennett () to explore how a Detroit newsroom turned journalism into infrastructure for neighborhood power.

https://kresge.org/pathbreakers-podcast/