The Kresge Foundation

10/08/2026

Cultural heritage isn't only what a community keeps from the past. It's how residents understand who they are and what they can build next. Sixteen nonprofits across Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park will share $1.3 million through the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus (KIP:D+) Cultural Heritage grant initiative. Over the next two years, they'll carry out projects shaped by community engagement to remember history, care for important local places and strengthen belonging across neighborhoods. Projects range from preserving Detroit’s Indigenous cultural traditions to documenting Black women’s health stories through photography and storytelling to an oral history archive strengthening intergenerational connection.

KIP:D+ is funded by Kresge and led in partnership with Co.act and Michigan Community Resources. Since 2015, the program has distributed more than $16 million.

Congratulations:
American Indian Health and Family Services
Art & Soul Gorden Memorial Community Garden
Baileyparkndc
The Black Bottom Archives
Brilliant Detroit
Canfield Consortium
Detroit Artists Market
Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings
The Eastside Community Network
Hamtramck Historical Museum
Highland Park Old Timers
Dabls MBAD African Bead Museum
Remembering Cherubs
Ruth Ellis Center
SASHA Center
Shrine of the Black Madonna

Sixteen Detroit-area nonprofits will share $1.3 million through the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus (KIP:D+) Cultural Heritage grant initiative for projects that range from preserving Detroit’s Indigenous cultural traditions to documenting Black women’s health stories through photograph...

10/08/2026

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10/07/2026

In this clip from the PathBreakers Podcast, Danielle Bergstrom, executive director of the nonprofit newsroom Fresnoland, discusses objectivity and acknowledges that everyone has their lived reality and experiences and you should own that instead of trying to hide that or say that it doesn’t affect you.

Watch the FULL PathBreakers episode with Fresnoland’s Danielle Bergstrom wherever you get your podcasts and here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx5Vw42UVvY&t=1786s

10/06/2026

Danielle Bergstrom spent a decade as a city planner before concluding that the most powerful thing she could give Fresno, California, was information. In 2020, she built Fresnoland, the local newsroom Fresno’s underserved communities never had. She built the nonprofit digital news service that now serves 1.5 million residents across Fresno and Madera County on a simple premise: communities can’t shape decisions they can’t see. Listen as she shares her story on the latest episode of PathBreakers, our award-winning podcast for urban changemakers. Find it wherever you get your podcasts!

10/06/2026

This commentary by Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson was originally published in Crain’s Detroit Business on the eve of the annual Detroit Homecoming, a three-day event created for Detroit expats — those who grew up, went to school, or built early careers in metro Detroit and now live elsewher...

10/05/2026

In this clip from the PathBreakers Podcast, Sarait Martínez, executive director of Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO), explains how the organization recently recovered more than $50,000 in stolen wages from farmworkers.

Watch the FULL PathBreakers episode with Sarait Martinez wherever you get our podcasts and here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECpJ7huMczY&t=300s

10/05/2026

Kresge has joined eight other foundations in committing a total of $25 million to the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance (NIA), a nonprofit insurance cooperative serving more than 25,000 organizations nationwide. Property and casualty insurance is a condition for holding a lease, operating vehicles, employing staff and accepting public contracts. Without it, organizations cannot deliver the services their communities rely on. As comprehensive, affordable options in the commercial market have narrowed, nonprofits have absorbed higher premiums, tighter terms and unexpected non-renewals. This support positions NIA to continue serving members through this period of significant market change and growth.

Thank you to our partners in this investment: RWJFoundation, MacArthur Foundation, The California Endowment, Surdna Foundation, Soros Economic Development Fund, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund & Pocantico Center.

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The collaboration recognizes NIA as essential nonprofit infrastructure at a time when property and casualty coverage is harder to secure and afford.   The Kresge Foundation has joined eight other foundations in committing a total of $25 million to support Nonprofits Insurance Alliance (NIA), a nonp...

09/30/2026

In this clip from the PathBreakers podcast, Hugo Morales discusses the impact that Radio Bilengüe, the largest Latino-owned public radio network of its kind in the U.S., has had on its listeners. He tells the story of how Radio Bilingüe helped a mother save her daughter’s life.

Watch the FULL PathBreakers episode with Hugo Morales wherever you get our podcasts and here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3LardVRMOE&t=145s

09/29/2026

In this clip from the PathBreakers Podcast, the co-founder of Radio Bilengüe, the largest Latino-owned public radio network of its kind in the United States with 30 public radio stations and 75 affiliate stations across five states, discusses the difficult nature of community organizing and emphasizes the need to center your health. Radio Bilingüe

Watch the FULL PathBreakers episode with Hugo Morales wherever you get our podcasts and here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3LardVRMOE&t=124s

09/28/2026

More than 200,000 immigrant farmworkers power Central California's agricultural industry, including over 60,000 people from many diverse and distinct Indigenous Mexican communities. For Fresno’s Indigenous farmworker communities, cultural preservation isn’t heritage work — it’s survival. On this week's latest Pathbreakers episode, Sarait Martínez, executive director of Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO), discusses how the organization built a language justice practice so that no one is shut out of a decision that shapes their life.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!