If you plan communications activities that involve prominent mention of Kresge, please let us know in advance. We’re happy to hear from you, and particularly interested in photos or a story of how your work is making a difference.
This includes publishing information on grants awarded since 2009 and social investment made since 2008. To adjust or shorten a bio, please contact media@kresge.org.
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Below you will find a list of communications resources that may be useful as you promote your Kresge grant. We may be able to help frame the foundation’s reasons for supporting your work and anticipate any related inquiries.
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We help cities implement comprehensive climate-resilience approaches grounded in equity.
We’re delighted that your organization is a Kresge grantee. We position culture and creativity as drivers of more just communities. 3215 W. Big Beaver Road, Troy, Mich. 48084 Sign up for Kresge news and updates. Today, Kresge fulfills that mission by building and strengthening pathways to opportunity for low-income people in America’s cities, seeking to dismantle structural and systemic barriers to equality and justice.
We work to expand opportunity, strengthen neighborhoods and improve quality of life in America’s cities by providing access to capital. You can contact our communications team at media@kresge.org, and please include this email in your distribution as well. For more information visit kresge.org.
Our programs seek to expand opportunity for low-income people so they can gain the tools and supports needed to lead self-determined lives and join the economic mainstream. Contact media@kresge.org.
We are a transparent organization and have achieved the Foundation Center’s Glass Pockets designation. Strategic Learning, Research and Evaluation, Brochures about Kresge's history, headquarters and Detroit office, Benjamin S. Kennedy, Vice President, Place-Based Practices, Robert J. Manilla, Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Amy B. Robinson, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Adminstrative Office, Elaine D. Rosen, Chair, Board of Trustees.
We may be able to help frame the foundation’s reasons for supporting your work and anticipate any related inquiries.
We focus on increasing postsecondary attainment while eliminating gaps for low-income students and students of color in the United States and South Africa. We encourage our partners to be equally forthcoming when questioned by media about Kresge partnerships and/or funding. If options provided do not fit your needs, please contact media@kresge.org.
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See our promise to partners during COVID-19. If you plan communications activities that involve prominent mention of Kresge, please let us know in advance. In 1924, with an initial gift of $1.6 million, Sebastian Kresge established The Kresge Foundation in Detroit. Please feel free to do so.
Our name is The Kresge Foundation. Kresge staff is working remotely, and our offices are closed until further notice. Our logo is available for your use to complement news and promotion of your work.
We are proud to have you as a partner and encourage you to promote the work Kresge supports. We deploy an array of grantmaking and social investing tools – usually in partnership with nonprofit, public, private and philanthropic organizations – to address society’s most intractable problems. Strategic Learning, Research and Evaluation, Enlisting Kresge to help spread your news.
These resources will be helpful to your communication efforts. The Opportunity Fund is a portfolio of investments that promote fairness and equity, justice and opportunity through efforts to protect and strengthen democratic institutions, advance civil rights, counteract hate and racism, support immigrant and refugee communities, and provide legal supports to underserved communities.
We deploy an array of grantmaking and social investing tools – usually in partnership with nonprofit, public, private and philanthropic organizations – to address society’s most intractable problems. The Kresge Foundation was founded in 1924 to promote human progress. Please provide caption information with the photo including name of organization, date, location and photo credit. Our programs seek to expand opportunity for low-income people so they can gain the tools and supports needed to lead self-determined lives and join the economic mainstream. Please subscribe to our weekly newsletter and follow us on our social media channels: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.
A searchable listing is available in the Grants & Social Investments section of this website. Available on our Communication Resources page: For more information, contact media@kresge.org or call 248-643-9630. If appropriate, we will use partner photos proudly on our website, through our social media channels and in our publications.
Using a full array of grant, loan, and other investment tools, Kresge invests more than $160 million annually to foster economic and social change. Many years later the enterprise became known as Kmart. Expanding opportunities in America’s cities.
There you will find the relevant information on the organization, the amount of our investment and the rationale for our support. Today, Kresge fulfills that mission by building and strengthening pathways to opportunity for low-income people in America’s cities, seeking to dismantle structural and systemic barriers to equality and justice. Biographies and photos of Kresge staff are available on the Staff page of our website. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up for Kresge news and updates. Twelve years earlier, he and partner John G. McCrory opened the first 5-and-10-cent store, and parlayed the concept and operations into a chain of stores that were incorporated as the S.S. Kresge Company.
Along with information about each of our programs, you can learn more about How We Fund, Who We Are and How We Operate.
We are an institution that is deeply committed to sharing the lessons that result from our work with grantees and partners through storytelling, research and convenings. Kresge staff is working remotely, and our offices are closed until further notice. You also may also refer Kresge-related media inquiries to media@kresge.org. Our primary communication vehicles are kresge.org and our News from Kresge newsletter, which is published at noon each Thursday. We seek to expand opportunity by promoting effective and inclusive community development practice in American cities. Your email will only be used by The Kresge Foundation. Feel free to share and link to Kresge content via social media.
Please send images and captions to media@kresge.org.
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We're particularly interested in stories and photos that demonstrate how your work is making a difference. For your convenience, bios for Kresge officers are provided below: Biographies and photos of our trustees are on the Board of Trustees page of our website; for your convenience, the bio for our board chair is listed below: We invite you to share high-quality photos with Kresge. Kresge or Kresge Foundation is fine on second reference.
Your email will only be used by The Kresge Foundation. We are an institution that is deeply committed to sharing the lessons that result from our work with grantees and partners through storytelling, research and convenings.