Held at Detroit’s scenic Marygrove Conservancy, the 2024 Summit on Strengthening Whole Child Communities brought together public and private leaders earlier this month to champion education as a pathway to opportunity for children from low-income backgrounds. Organized by the U.S. Department of Education, Ballmer Group, Raikes Foundation, Stuart Foundation and Kresge, the summit showcased Marygrove’s P-20 educational campus — a vibrant example of how whole-child, community-focused approaches can transform education. From early learning to post-secondary offerings, Marygrove serves as a hub of innovative, project-based education and vital community support services. Read a recap of the summit: https://lnkd.in/ev6Ndung Thank you to Detroit Youth Choir and all the speakers that made this event such a success: Roberto Rodriguez, Neera Tanden, Rip Rapson, Alycia Meriweather, Elizabeth Moje, Celina Byrd, Wendy Lewis Jackson, Jeff Edmondson, Kenji Treanor, Shital C. Shah, Casey Trupin, Jonathan Hui, Abe Fernández, Russell Booker, Lauren Markham, Swati A., Catherine McConnell, Monique Miles, Shantinette Lowe, Evamelo Oleita, Cristal Salcido, Brooke Solomon, Cindy Marten, Elson Nash, Eddie L. Koen, JD, MPA, Kayla Roney Smith #earlychildhoodeducation #Marygrove
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Expanding opportunity in America's cities
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The Kresge Foundation was founded in 1924 to promote human progress. Today, Kresge fulfills that mission by building and strengthening pathways to equity and opportunity for low-income people in America’s cities, seeking to dismantle structural and systemic barriers to equality and justice. Using a full array of grant, loan, and other investment tools, Kresge invests more than $160 million annually to foster economic and social change. For more information visit Kresge.org.
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- Education, Detroit, Arts & Culture, Health, Human Services, Social Investing, Environment, American Cities, Opportunities, and Cities
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Congratulations to IFF (CDFI) and Matrix Human Services for the opening of the $8.75 million, state-of-the-art early childhood facility that provide quality education to over 90 children. “For the last 10 years, we’ve worked closely with IFF to increase access to quality early childhood education for all of Detroit’s children, to make Detroit a city that truly puts its youth children first. With this center – whose design and planned programming reflect community priorities identified in the Hope Starts Here framework – we have passed a milestone in reaching that goal.” - Kresge Detroit Program Managing Director Wendy Lewis Jackson
This year marks IFF’s 10th anniversary in Michigan, and we’ll be celebrating the milestone with something new on social media each of the next 10 weeks! To kick things off, we’re excited to share highlights from the ribbon cutting ceremony held earlier this week for the McClellan Early Childhood Center! Located on the East Side of #Detroit in the Gratiot Woods neighborhood, the 15,000-square-foot facility developed by IFF features eight classrooms with the capacity to provide up to 96 of Detroit’s youngest learners with quality early childhood education. McClellan, which will be operated by Matrix Human Services, is helping to close a 521-seat early childhood education seat gap in the surrounding neighborhoods and is representative of leading practices for the design, operation, and financing of early childhood facilities. The $8.75 million project was funded and financed by JPMorganChase, Cinnaire, The Kresge Foundation, the City of Detroit, PNC, and IFF, and is a testament to what’s possible when public and private partners work together to strengthen communities. Learn more about the project and ribbon cutting ceremony here: https://iff.org/mcclellan/
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In its ninth year, Kresge’s summer internship program welcomed the 2024 cohort of eight interns this June and July. These students have been embedded within departments for approximately 10 weeks and have worked closely with foundation staff to gain a fuller picture of what it is like to work in philanthropy as a grantmaker or an operational team member. As the interns, who range from high school to graduate students, wrap up their time at Kresge, they share more about their motivations, what they’ve learned and where they hope to go. Thank you to (clockwise, from top left): • Billy Daal, Investments • Joseph Pino, Investments • Nate Fisher, American Cities Program • Clara Graucob, Environment Program • Dina Younes, Investments • Shavaughn Armstead, Detroit Program • Aya M. Waller-Bey, MPhil, Education Program • Julia Plawker, Health Program https://lnkd.in/enZ4gHHQ
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IFF (CDFI) and Matrix Human Services this week celebrated the opening of the McClellan Early Childhood Center in the Gratiot Woods neighborhood on the East Side of Detroit. McClellan is the second facility after the Marygrove Early Education Center whose physical design and programming reflect the priorities identified in the Hope Starts Here Detroit framework for a coordinated, high-quality early childhood system. Like Marygrove, the design encourages play and learning while providing ample opportunity for interaction with the natural landscape surrounding the facility. https://lnkd.in/esuwQxcR
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Solar combined with energy storage (solar+storage) can provide cost savings and keep essential services powered during grid outages. With funding support from Kresge’s Environment Program, Clean Energy Group (CEG) has released a series of resources for individuals and organizations who are considering implementing solar+storage projects. In a new guide titled Understanding Solar+Storage, CEG addresses 12 common questions related to solar+storage benefits. CEG also published a Project Checklist with seven steps to begin the process. Both resources are offered in English and Spanish. Download the guide: https://lnkd.in/dW6qwyEx
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Seed and Bloom: Detroit, a three-year initiative of United States Artists, supports a 10-member cohort of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) artists leading arts organizations in neighborhoods across the city. Kresge has joined the Gilbert Family Foundation in the effort, increasing to $180,000 the amount the participants will receive over the duration of the program. Seed and Bloom also provides technical assistance to promote organizational sustainability and success. Congratulations: jes allie (Jessica Allie), BULK Space Juanita Anderson, Indija Productions Halima Afi Cassells, The Free Market of Detroit Amelia E. Duran, Garage Cultural Asia Hamilton, Norwest Gallery of Art / Norwest Community Collaborative Danielle E. Lyle, Neighborhood Bodega Michael Manson, House of Jit Tiff Massey, Tiff Massey Studios Ryan Myers-Johnson, Sidewalk Detroit Yvette Rock, Live Coal Gallery
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TONIGHT: Join Detroit PBS at 7 p.m. EDT for a virtual recording of the Strengthening Whole Child Communities: Raising the Bar from Cradle to Career Summit, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, Ballmer Group, Stuart Foundation, Raikes Foundation and Kresge. The summit, which took place at the Marygrove Conservancy campus in Detroit, highlights the importance of public education as a driver of opportunity and socioeconomic mobility for children from low-income backgrounds, their families and their communities. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gR3eSCT8 In his remarks at the summit, Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson said that “the educational programming and related activities at Marygrove have cast in bright relief just how central a cradle-to-career campus can be in stabilizing neighborhood residential patterns, driving localized economic opportunity and fortifying community social capital.”
Save the date Friday August 16th at 7pm for a special virtual event, The Marygrove Model: Lesson in Education from Detroit. You'll hear from The Kresge Foundation CEO Rip Rapson, catch a bit of the Pioneers of Marygrove documentary, then hear a lively panel discussion on sharing lessons and bright spots from the cradle-to-career campus at Marygrove. https://lnkd.in/gR3eSCT8
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We are thrilled to announce that Anna Blanding and Linda Hill have been appointed to The Kresge Foundation Board of Trustees. Kresge Board Chair Cecilia Muñoz highlights the unique experience and skills our new Trustees bring to the foundation: “Anna’s career trajectory – from nonprofit endowment management to impact investing to economic and community development to philanthropy – is an impressive one. Her deep experience across these disciplines will be invaluable to the board as we continue to grow our philanthropic impact, endowment and community development investments. She has shown throughout her career a commitment to creating equitable communities and innovating the financial and impact investing sectors. Anna will be a critical voice as we think through how to invest and use financial tools for social good.” “Linda is a foremost expert on leadership, organizational management and innovation, and she uses her research and deep expertise in these areas to inform economic development and how to improve the lives of those who live in disinvested communities. For most of her career, Linda has focused on business and societal challenges that require systemic approaches and solutions, which is exactly the sort of perspective Kresge’s Board of Trustees seeks as we have always been a philanthropy focused on large-scale systems change. I very much look forward to Linda helping Kresge navigate how to become an even more effective organization.” https://lnkd.in/gK3M9kbK
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The Inflation Reduction Act has ushered in a new era of clean energy. This new guide offers a model for leveraging direct pay to advance solar and renewable energy finance. It highlights how provisions like Direct Pay can democratize clean energy projects, making them financially viable for low-to-moderate income households. Community Development Financial Institutions, Minority Depository Institutions, and mission-driven lenders play a crucial role, especially in marginalized communities. Rochdale Capital, the National Bankers Association and WeSolar Inc. created this guide to help mission-driven lenders engage in climate finance.
A Turnkey Model for Leveraging Direct Pay to Advance Solar and Renewable Energy Finance - Kresge Foundation
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It is hard to have a conversation about the continued fraying – and decline – of social cohesion in this country without referencing Robert Putnam, who cascaded into public consciousness with his seminal article, and then book, "Bowling Alone." Putnam pointed to scores of indicators demonstrating the weakening in the U.S. of the informal networks of mutual support that build community cohesion – social capital. The brilliant shorthand was that more and more Americans were “bowling alone.” His most recent book, "The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again," which The Kresge Foundation provided grant support for, explores the idea that during the course of the 20th century, America had moved from an “I” – or self-referential, self-centered – culture in the early 1900’s to a “We” – or more community-engaged and communitarian – culture and then back again. The book, which was published in 2020 during COVID, was somewhat neglected. That is changing, and the work is now having a moment. Why My Nonprofit Relies on the Ideas of an 83-Year-Old Scholar: https://lnkd.in/gxmf5vf5 Cures for Our Civic Malaise: Look to young people and local leaders, 'Bowling Alone' author Robert Putnam says tell philanthropy https://lnkd.in/gNncsPvN
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