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The Kresge Foundation The Kresge Foundation 2009 Annual Report Can fresh food change the outcome of a Table of Contents Introduction Asking Questions whole neighborhood, Letters Board Chair 14 bite by bite? President 16 Values and Programs 20 Arts and Culture Community Development Detroit National Education Environment Health Human Services 2009 Grant and Program-related Investment Activity Overview 24 Arts and Culture 31 Community Development Detroit 45 National 60 Education 65 Environment 73 Health 85 Human Services 99 International 115 Nonprofit Sector Support 117 President’s Discretion 119 Trustee Recognition 121 Financial Report 124 Board of Trustees 128 Foundation Staff 129 Can art become a Can a hotter earth be battery that jump-starts solved by cooler heads? city renewal? Can vulnerable Can mass transit be organizations the light at the end adequately serve of blight? vulnerable populations? 7 www.kresge.org Can community colleges Life moves in cycles. Good places tend to create better be the key to a vastly more places that create better places. Or, as we see so clearly today, a run of rogue events could keep knocking the competitive country? pillars out from under all of us, one after another after another. These cycles that occur over years and some- times decades are what we work to understand at The Kresge Foundation. We’re particularly interested in encouraging new cycles and fostering ideas that disrupt a downward chain of events and bend it upward. These are ideas that begin with big questions. 8 The Kresge Foundation 2009 Annual Report 9 www.kresge.org What is at the heart of “here” The best places to live are hardly the most affluent. We For decades, our work has been to help nonprofits are talking about the places that contain a vibrancy larger succeed. We continue to do it in inventive ways for than their physical footprint with an energy that is real and one reason: to create communities that work and renowned. It happens that these sweet spots of life bloom keep working. We help begin upward cycles, where there are things like grocery stores, dentists and where well-imagined ideas have the a music scene—and are exceptional places to learn power to strengthen the fabric of our and raise a family. Kresge is investing in underserved entire country. communities for this reason. What if twenty-seven kids in a class of thirty go to college? What if an entire block has healthy houses that are not only well insulated but free from mold and lead? What if that vacant lot becomes a neighborhood park? What if we can answer these kinds of questions a thousand times over, across the country? We start to create more places where we all want to live. 10 The Kresge Foundation 2009 Annual Report 11 www.kresge.org the community colleges that support first-generation college students? What if we train artists to be more entrepreneurial? Can farm technologies help deflect the impact of a changing climate? We also are looking How is this time to teach and be taught, both with and by the nonprofits we serve and the foundations on this long journey with different us. We are seeking out the individuals and organizations With the longest and deepest recession since the Great who are exploring innovative ideas and need dependable Depression, the breadth and immediacy of the needs funding to get traction and build their capacity for success. compel us to play an active role in supporting front-line By doing these things, we hope to maximize the full capacity services. Food shelves now feed one in eight people, up of “now.” This limited resource of today has 46 percent from four years ago. But seeing our country’s never been as valuable as it is in this cupboards laid bare and having to prop up already difficult time. We know that using it well buckling human services with private and public money, will make a difference for generations. we renew our commitment: we will lay a long-term foundation today that positively, permanently changes the course of tomorrow. Part of how we do this is by building upon our deep knowledge of capital and helping nonprofits leverage new capital in creative ways—ways that help organizations live out their missions and reach their visions more effectively. How can we best bolster 12 The Kresge Foundation 2009 Annual Report 13 www.kresge.org absence can multiply hardship. Or look at a young child’s trajectory through life. A girl who is absent from school because of asthma may chart a difficult course through adulthood simply because the condition and age of her How do multiple lenses home fostered chronic breathing difficulties. Health and environment affect education and community in very create a singular focus direct ways over lifetimes. The truth is, the large issues we We approach our work in defined program areas: Arts and read about daily—the health of our nation, the steady rise Culture, Community Development, Education, Environment, of our planet’s temperature, budget cuts at schools—are Health, and Human Services. The criteria for our work is not solved by a single discipline but many. This overlap is that the nonprofits we fund are a fit with these fields of where we set our sights. It’s also in the overlap that the interest, align with our values, and are interested in the bigger questions have the best chance of knocking the kind of innovative capital Kresge provides. (Read more in negative cycles out of their worn grooves. Can cleaner the gatefold which begins on page 20.) But as varied as diesel help raise test scores at the school down the street? these fields look on paper, for practical purposes they are Can a theater that stays in a neighborhood help rewrite indivisible. They share a nucleus—to create exceptional the future narrative of the neighbors? Can Detroit become, communities, particularly for those on the margins. once again, a place where travelers go out of their way Consider poverty. This burden is not simply driven by lack to visit? The nonprofits in this book are proof of jobs, but often a lack of transportation, healthcare, positive that these questions—and powerful fresh food, education, and even art and culture. Access to new cycles that accompany them—are these things helps strengthen neighborhoods just as their being answered every day. 14 The Kresge Foundation 2009 Annual Report Grants 15 www.kresge.org Our primary response to the economic crisis was to bolster organizations with a proven track record of providing food, shelter and emergency assistance through grants and program-related investments. These safety-net organizations needed reinforcements if they were to serve the newly displaced while meeting the needs of their large, existing clientele—the chronically poor and disadvantaged, a segment of our society that is disproportionately children. Getting it right Throughout the past year, so many worthy organizations from the Board Chair met the uncharted demands of the Great Recession while doing their utmost to survive themselves. In many cases we were their first line of defense; it is I can’t help but think that our founder, Sebastian Kresge, would a role we knew was ours to fulfill. be proud of where we are right now. The trustees and staff of this 86-year-old The decision to simultaneously proceed with the strategic expansion of our programs was to institution are diligently interpreting his intent—to promote human progress—just as I believe us a given as well. The beauty of being a large, national foundation is that we can take the long he would have wanted, and understood was required, within the context of our present world. view and challenge ourselves to make a meaningful dent in society’s greatest ills. When the economic crisis finally subsides, you will find us already at work It could have been a different story. Here we were, a national foundation on the cusp of an addressing some of society’s most entrenched and confounding unprecedented evolution to fundamentally expand our grantmaking when the economy nearly problems. collapsed. It was a universal experience, and an especially personal one for the 14-million individuals who were out of work and suddenly in need of services they had never had to depend This is our role, our reason for being. We exist to help, to be impactful. We exist to do good. upon before. Everyone was called to respond. What differentiates us, individuals and organizations We exist to take one step at a time and to get it right, all within the context of our values. alike, is our ability and our will to do so. That is where Sebastian Kresge comes in. We wholeheartedly subscribe to our founder’s What we did and why we did it wishes to promote human progress. Yet as a board and staff it is our responsibility to interpret his maxim and to take the organization where it needs to go to be relevant in the 21st century. I believe a philanthropic organization of Kresge’s size and scope cannot shy away from taking You will see our relevancy play out again and again as you read descriptions of each of the bold action in a time of great national hardship. We did not. My fellow trustees, our CEO Rip 404 grants we made in 2009. That is why he would be proud. Rapson, and our staff agreed that we would respond with precise and immediate aid to those most urgently in need. And, we would do so while we completed the institutional transformation Sincerely, already underway at The Kresge Foundation.
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