“About 1 in 7 kids in Louisiana experience parental incarceration, nearly four times the national average,” says Dominque Jones-Johnson, MSHRE, founder of Daughters Beyond Incarceration. “DBI believes those closest to the problem can be the solution. Since May 2018, we’ve mentored more than 70 girls impacted by parental incarceration in New Orleans by turning pain into purpose through organizational programming and policy initiatives.” Learn more about their work:
The Kresge Foundation
Philanthropic Fundraising Services
Troy, Michigan 53,134 followers
Expanding opportunity in America's cities
About us
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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https://kresge.org/
External link for The Kresge Foundation
- Industry
- Philanthropic Fundraising Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Troy, Michigan
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1924
- Specialties
- Education, Detroit, Arts & Culture, Health, Human Services, Social Investing, Environment, American Cities, Opportunities, and Cities
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3215 W Big Beaver Rd
Troy, Michigan 48084, US
Employees at The Kresge Foundation
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Come join our team! The Kresge Foundation's Social Investment Practice is seeking a Director of Portfolio Management to oversee our ever-growing portfolio of impact-first, program-related investments. This director role reports to me and leads a team of two other professionals all focused on ensuring that our portfolio of existing investments continues to perform exceptionally well and delivers the impact we seek on behalf of our investees. We are first and foremost seeking a candidate with a deep and proven commitment to social impact and who desires to use their financial management skills to serve low-income people. We are looking for an experienced leader with a high attention to detail, and preferably someone with experience in community development finance or program-related investing inside a private foundation. This is largely an internally facing role but also critically important in ensuring the success of Kresge's long-term program goals. To be clear, this position has no role in managing our endowment nor is this a role that will lead to originating new transactions. It is an ideal role for someone who loves problem-solving, enjoys getting into the weeds of transactions, and is committed to supporting and developing their team. Relocation to metro-Detroit is required although Kresge operates a hybrid work schedule. Join us! https://lnkd.in/g78syUJx
Director of Portfolio Management | The Kresge Foundation
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Kresge’s Education Program recently announced a new suite of grants totaling $6.4 million dedicated to bolstering South Africa’s higher education institutions. This is the third iteration of funding for Siyaphumelela, an initiative dedicated to enhancing South African university student success. Growing from eight direct institutional grantees to 20 of South Africa’s 26 universities, including several Historically Disadvantaged Institutions, Siyaphumelela 3.0 also marks a significant expansion of the network’s impact and scale. To date Kresge has invested nearly $40 million to promote South African postsecondary access and success. Congratulations to the new Siyaphumelela institutions: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Central University of Technology, Free State, North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit, Rhodes University, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Sol Plaatje University, University of Venda for Science and Technology, University of Johannesburg, University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, Stellenbosch University, Vaal University of Technology (VUT), WSU - Walter Sisulu University. https://lnkd.in/exkUtwTu
Kresge awards more than $6M in grants to expand student success in South Africa - Kresge Foundation
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The U.S. Department of Transportation and Kresge recently co-hosted a two-day convening highlighting the importance of including community voice and vision in the implementation of President Biden’s Investing in America-funded projects. The Roundtable featured conversations at the intersection of infrastructure, health equity and environmental justice. The historic levels of federal infrastructure investment have created opportunities for place-based organizations to work alongside federal partners to convene and create spaces for authentic engagement and collective problem-solving, where community and government can join together in search of lasting solutions that ensure infrastructure can be a catalyst for positive change.
Roundtable explores community-centered implementation of infrastructure projects - Kresge Foundation
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In clinics, hospitals, nursing homes and schools, nurses see the health impacts of climate change firsthand. Nurses are well-positioned to provide reliable, evidence-based information on both in a world awash with misinformation about health and climate change. In this op-ed, Katie Huffling, executive director of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, highlights nurses' unique role in tackling the climate crisis and how funders can tap into their power. https://lnkd.in/eq_vtKqJ
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Congratulations to National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) CEO Tim Delaney on his retirement. His tenure at NCN stands as a testament to visionary leadership and unwavering commitment to the nonprofit sector. His relentless pursuit of equity and justice continues to resonate, inspiring future generations of nonprofit leaders to champion social change and community resilience.
Rapson: National Council of Nonprofits CEO Tim Delaney's legacy defined by bold vision, strategic advocacy - Kresge Foundation
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Students from University of Michigan will live and learn in Detroit this fall on the Marygrove Conservancy learning campus in northwest Detroit. It marks the final phase of the nearly decade of work to transform the more than century-old campus into an educational community serving Dettoiters from birth through postsecondary.
$28.5M Kresge guarantee supports build out of final phase of transformation on Marygrove campus - Kresge Foundation
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How are climate, food, culture, housing, self-determination, wellness and prosperity all connected? That's what a group of funders learned on a recent neighborhood-based learning tour by Coalition of Communities of Color in Portland, OR. Using a multi-pronged approach led by the stories and experiences of communities most impacted by climate change, CCC recently won a campaign to pass a��series of bills in Oregon that include reduced energy rates for low-income households, funding for home energy efficiency upgrades, and the 100% Clean Energy Standard, which requires utilities to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Learn more about this org and the learning from this tour in our latest feature story! #climatechange #climateequity #climateishealth
Coalition of Communities of Color cultivates justice in a changing climate - Kresge Foundation
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In recognition of the importance of supporting the financial health of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Kresge has made a $4.25 million investment to the Reinvestment Fund’s HBCU Brilliance Initiative. The Initiative is structured to resource HBCUs with knowledge, loan capital and credit enhancement, while building the capacity of HBCUs to attract and retain permanent assets that promote sustainable institutional prosperity. "Due to chronic underfunding, we need more CDFIs to step into investing in these critical community partners. The HBCU Brilliance Initiative is an excellent model for how other CDFIS can make reoccurring and ongoing investments in HBCUs.” - Kresge Social Investment Officer Erika Brice #HBCU #HBCUs
Kresge invests millions into Reinvestment Fund’s HBCU Brilliance Initiative - Kresge Foundation
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The inevitable but infuriating backlash against guaranteed income programs is gaining steam. The backlash is fueled by the same insidious canards to which we have become inured, but which have been unequivocally debunked: that cash payments are simply wasted on non-essential expenditures and encourage people not to work. Backlash against genuine, evidence-based policy change that promotes the economic mobility of people of color and people with low incomes. More than 100 guaranteed income pilot programs that give low-income residents monthly cash payments have been implemented across the U.S. Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI) report that independent research on pilot programs shows that when given unrestricted payments, recipients are able to rise above the barriers of poverty and create economic stability for themselves, their families and their communities. https://lnkd.in/deWmASeF The documentary “It’s Basic,” documenting the lives of families who have participated in the St. Paul, Minnesota, pilot program initiated by Mayor Melvin W. Carter III, details the innumerable ways it has helped set families on the path to economic stability – paying for child care, car repairs, clothing, and other items that provide that small, but essential, support for families to weather daily impediments to holding a job. https://lnkd.in/dRjtX9ij
States Push Back Against Guaranteed Income With New Bans
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