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Kresge Arts In Detroit is pleased to announce the 2024 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award recipients in Live Arts and Film & Music! Thirty-five metro Detroit artists will share $1 million in unrestricted awards as this year’s cohort of Artist Fellows and Gilda Awardees. The awards include 18 Artist Fellows in Film & Music and seven Artist Fellows in Live Arts, in addition to seven Gilda Award recipients in Film & Music and three in Live Arts. Since 2008, Kresge has invested nearly $9 million in unrestricted dollars in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb county artists. https://lnkd.in/eDberMJD Congratulations to the 16th cohort of award recipients: 2024 Film & Music Fellows Juanita Anderson, Beats Rhymes Everything Detroit (Alesyn McCall, Rich McCall), Steffanie Christi’an, Damien Crutcher, Maurice Draughn, Katy Dresner, Aisha Ellis, Ian Finkelstein, Tamara Finlay, Na Forest Lim, Gabriel Hall, HiTech (CHOPS, Melly, Milo), INK, ishKode, Razi Jafri, Weam Namou, Lara Sfire, Ursula Walker. 2024 Live Arts Fellows Imani Ma’at AmkhmenRa Amen Taylor, ava ansari, Flying Cardboard Theater (Jason Hicks, Lindsay McCaw), Jit Master Mike, Sowande Keita, Chaula Thacker, The TETRA – Digital Underground Railroad (Chace Morris, Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe) Gilda Awards in Film & Music  Stevie Ansara, Drummer B, Na Bonsai, Hannah Fahoome, Ms. Shirel, Maddie Shubeck, Skinny Trell Gilda Awards in Live Arts Galaxy, Miryam Johnson, Mack Thorsday #Detroit #artists #film #music #livearts

We are excited to announce the newest cohort of Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award winners! This is the program's largest cohort to date and the first group of fellows to each receive the increased $40,000 unrestricted award! Deep thanks to the panelists who put in many hours of review and deliberation to select the award recipients. 🎉Congratulations to these incredible metro Detroit artists! https://lnkd.in/gurSUMZ6

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) make up only 3% of U.S. colleges and universities but enroll 10% of all African American college students. HBCUs have educated 70% of the country’s Black doctors, 80% of its Black judges, 40% of the Black engineers and the current U.S. vice president. HBCUs play a vital role in narrowing the income and wealth gap by elevating families from lower-income backgrounds to higher incomes at nearly double the rate of predominantly white institutions. Kresge's support for these institutions dates back to the 1940s and includes more than 60 grants and $75 million. This article details those investments that continue today. https://lnkd.in/ex2P3nNF #HBCUs #highered

Reframe and lead with shared values. Together with partners like Surili Sutaria Patel at Metropolitan Group and Frances Acuña at Go Austin/Vamos Austin, our team at The Kresge Foundation learned ways to approach messaging that can help depolarize the #climatejustice issue and win fresh support from decision makers.

Corp! Magazine's 28th Annual Top Women in Leadership in Business event named The Kresge Foundation's General Counsel and Board Secretary Zenna Elhasan one of the five winners of the “Women In Leadership” award, which honors the contributions of women in Michigan who’ve shown outstanding leadership and helped advance the cause of women in business. The award recognizes, in the words of one recipient, that “women are the heartbeat of the community.” It’s not possible to imagine someone who fits that bill more effectively than Zenna. Congratulations! #philanthropy #leadership

The Detroit & The American City Symposium, held June 11, brought together several hundred people from around the country to grapple with the city’s historic and present challenges and inequities while also uplifting the city’s strength, ingenuity and promise, pointing to the opportunities that lie ahead. The day featured fireside chats, panel discussions and short talks that examined the regeneration, abundance and resilience of Detroit and how we look to the past to inform a reimagined future. You can catch the symposium on Detroit PBS at 12 p.m. EDT on June 25. Watch: https://lnkd.in/gJ8JCr-z

TONIGHT AT 8 PM: Join us to celebrate 100 years of Kresge's achievements and future opportunities! Filmed at the Detroit Institute of Arts, hear from a lineup of distinguished speakers including former President Barack Obama, City of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Kresge Chair Cecelia Muñoz and President and CEO Rip Rapson. Plus, enjoy an incredible lineup of Detroit’s eclectic and talented performers: Satori Shakoor, Thornetta Davis, the Detroit Youth Choir and the Gabriel Brass Band. Watch “Kresge at 100: Celebrating The Kresge Foundation’s Century of Impact and Future of Opportunity” Friday June 21 at 8 p.m EDT on Detroit PBS!

Be sure to not miss tonight's broadcast of Kresge's centennial celebration at 8 p.m. EDT on Detroit PBS.

It is impossible to overstate the influence that Board Trustees Jim Bildner and Maria Otero have had on The Kresge Foundation. Jim was the fountainhead for Kresge’s development of a social investments practice, and his early and direct involvement in shaping its purposes, approaches, and aspirations continue to serve as the bedrock for the practice today. His approach was a model of how to bridge between a trustee’s governance role and the fostering of a “product line.” I can’t count the times in which Maria’s pragmatism and knack for cutting to the essence of the matter helped move a Board conversation toward greater clarity. Pretty much every Board meeting I can remember during her tenure was made more productive by her ability to read a room, leaven a conversation with understated humor, inject an unexpected insight, or help crystallize ambiguity. Thank you both for your incredible service and contributions.

On June 11, Kresge hosted the Detroit & The American City Symposium that brought together several hundred people from around the country to grapple with the city’s historic and present challenges and inequities while also uplifting the city’s strength, ingenuity and promise, pointing to the opportunities that lie ahead. The day featured fireside chats, panel discussions and short talks that examined the regeneration, abundance and resilience of Detroit and how we look to the past to inform a reimagined future. Read a recap of the symposium: https://bit.ly/3VqJACo VIDEO: Hear snippets of the conversation from Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II, Rip Rapson, Anika Goss, Alycia Meriweather, Andre M. Perry, Angela Glover Blackwell, Danielle Atkinson and Academy-Award winning production designer Hannah Beachler from the Symposium. This five-minute video includes highlights from each session and an interview with Kresge's Wendy Lewis Jackson.