Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit+, now in its 10th year, has provided more than $13.7M to 184 transformative projects designed & created by small, neighborhood-based organizations. Applications for the next round of $1.3M KIP:D+ funding open on March 4.bit.ly/3UDKSLO

TODAY AT 2 PM ET: Join the #LocalInfrastructureHub to learn about U.S. Department of Transportation's Charging & Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) grant program to fund #ElectricVehicles charging & alternative-fueling infrastructure in communities across the country. Andy Schor Gabe Klein Keith Benjamin Mayor Lauren McLean

In 2019, Kresge Foundation added #equity to our organizational values alongside creativity, opportunity, respect, partnership & stewardship, making explicit what had previously been implied. As we kick of our centennial year, we are adding equity to our tagline. bit.ly/3UbIuLS

As we approach the #holidays , four great reasons 'Why Taking Time Off From Work Is Good for Your Productivity:
1. You'll learn the difference between being busy & being productive
2. You find clever solutions
3. You know how to delegate
4. You have a life
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The racial real estate ownership gap precedes the racial wealth gap, argue Lyneir Richardson, Tracy Hadden Loh 🌸 & Andre M. Perry. The Brookings Institution analysis shows only 3% of Black households own nonresidential commercial real estate, compared to 8% of white ones. brookings.edu/articles/intro…

Maria Popova (Maria Popova) writes a weekly newsletter entitled The Marginalian, which offers reflections on beauty, art, self-fulfillment & hope. It is invariably insightful and elegant. Here are 17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian.
themarginalian.org/2023/10/22/17/

Mark your calendar: 11/16 @ 12 pm EDT. Authors Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin & Timothy Nelson discuss their book The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America. Explore & examine the inequalities shaping people’s upward social mobility.
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Historic legislation ( #ARPA , IIJA, IRA) has provided transformational funding to cities to invest in a competitive, inclusive & sustainable future. Kresge & Brookings Metro brought leaders together to showcase innovative investments & replicable strategies.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8UNw…

7 insights from Memphis’ innovative investments in public space
Memphis River Parks Partnership Downtown Memphis Memphis Libraries City of Memphis Overton Park Heights CDC cxffeeblack Memphis Slim Collaboratory Crosstown Concourse The JPB Foundation Knight Foundation Kresge Foundation William Penn Foundation #publicspace
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In 2016, Kresge joined with WKKF to launch @HopeStartsHere: a community engagement process that led to Detroit’s first-ever early childhood development framework that reimagined a more cohesive, stronger, more sustainable #EarlyChildhood system. kresge.org/news-views/hop…

Rarely do philanthropic organizations collaborate together at the scale Community Investment Guarantee Pool has achieved so quickly. The recent $12M grant from MacKenzie Scott speaks to CIGPs positive impact on community development & its innovative model. guaranteepool.org/mackenzie-scot…

Great discussions at Brookings Metro Kresge Foundation with Asst Sec Castillo about the role EDA plays in workforce development in Miami-Dade County. Thx for funding #MiamiTechWorks with @fiu & Miami Dade College - giving residents the skills they need to access high paying tech jobs.

This week, @Intel’s Chief Strategy Officer, Saf Yeboah-Amankwah, participated in a fireside chat on testing the #CHIPSAct ’s promise for economic revitalization at Brookings Metro & Kresge Foundation’s joint summit. kresge.org/convening/help…

Valuable Brookings Metro & Kresge Foundation summit on equitable infrastructure investments, featuring a range of experts, tools & stories

Exactly what we need at this high potential time for our communities, convening federal, metro & local innovators for shared learning & inspiration

Brookings Metro and Kresge Foundation are proud to host at our joint summit local, regional, and state leaders to showcase innovative investments from historic federal funding.

As we reach the 1st anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act ( #IRA ), it's increasingly clear that we need vigilance in how each of the Act’s provisions is implemented if we’re to ensure that its benefits reach the people most at risk from #ClimateChange . bit.ly/3P09qev

.Hewlett Foundation's Larry Kramer is stepping down to take a position at the London School of Economics. The appointment is a fitting tribute to someone who has become one of the most thoughtful, insightful & courageous philanthropic leaders. Congratulations! bit.ly/3Qr9zc5

This week, we celebrated Cynthia Kresge’s decade of service on the Kresge Foundation Board. She brought so many of the qualities that have characterized the Kresge family’s stewardship of the institution: deep humility, disarmingly self-effacing humor, unshakable integrity, . . .

This week marked the 10th anniversary of the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy in #Detroit . At the time, there was a fear Detroit would never recover. But the city successfully exited bankruptcy in record time & is nearly unrecognizable from a decade ago. bit.ly/3Dmj8kT

TODAY: Join Next City at 1 pm ET for a discussion on long-standing, hardwired narratives that show up in the community development sector & keep us from doing the #RacialEquity work many of us are trying to do. Mordecai Cargill Lisa Yun Lee Lucas Grindley bit.ly/43nMzO2