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# 21 Community Organizations In Detroit Get Grants From The Kresge Foundation
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/21-community-organizations-detroit-get-grants-kresge-foundation/
- Published: 2017-09-14T11:44:24.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-27T19:50:01.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: Mack Avenue, #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #daily-detroit-staff

There are a lot of organizations in the city working to make their slice of the Motor City better, and the Kresge Foundation announced this week that they’ll be supporting their work with $1 million in grants.

The grants will be used to help the operating expenses of the community development organizations over a three year period.

“These three-year grants reinforce our top priority, which is spreading the energy of renewal to the city’s neighborhoods,” said Wendy Lewis Jackson, managing director of Kresge’s Detroit Program **[in a post on Kresge’s site](http://kresge.org/news/21-detroit-community-development-organizations-share-1-million-kresge?ref=dailydetroit.com)**. “Neighborhoods have been the backbone of the city through its hardest time, and these organizations have been the backbone of their neighborhoods. These groups are on the forefront of block-by-block strategies to make neighborhoods more vital and livable. And they all understand that there’s no substitute for engaging residents and championing Detroiters’ priorities.”

**Why this matters:** Often in Detroit’s past, philanthropy and corporate giving focuses on funding a specific project, but the projects need people and resources to keep them going. Many of these groups are very small, and so $30,000 or $60,000 is a huge difference in their operating budgets.

**The 21 organizations are: [Bridging Communities](http://www.bridgingcommunities.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Central Detroit Christian CDC](https://www.facebook.com/centraldetroitchristiancdc/), [Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance CDC](http://www.codyrouge.org/about?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Congress of Communities](http://cocswdetroit.com/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance](http://www.dcpasite.com/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation](http://www.dhdc1.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Eastside Community Network](http://ecn-detroit.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Focus: HOPE](http://www.focushope.edu/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [GenesisHOPE CDC](http://www.genesishope.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation](http://grandmontrosedale.com/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Joy-Southfield CDC](http://www.joysouthfield.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [LifeBUILDERS](http://www.lifebuildersdetroit.com/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Mack Avenue Community Church CDC](https://www.crowdrise.com/mackavenuecommunityc?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Osborn Neighborhood Alliance](https://www.facebook.com/OsbornONA), [Southwest Detroit Business Association Inc.](http://www.southwestdetroit.com/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Southwest Housing Solutions](http://www.swsol.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [The Brightmoor Alliance](http://www.brightmooralliance.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [The Villages of Detroit](http://www.thevillagesofdetroit.com/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [U SNAP BAC](http://www.usnapbac.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), [Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc](http://unidetroit.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com)., [Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation](https://www.woodbridgendc.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com#!).**