(FOA)-Creative
Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods; January 31,
2020
Agency
The
Kresge Foundation
Description
The
Kresge Foundation is accepting Letters of Inquiry
for creative placemaking activities designed to
increase Creative Capacity to Shape Healthier Neighborhoods. According to the
foundation, society must do more to address the harm done to people with low
incomes — including systemic racial injustice and normalized acts of exclusion
— and the disinvestment in the communities in which they live. Only then can it
recognize and deploy creative placemaking as a
necessary dimension of the strategies needed to create the conditions by which
people thrive and communities are supported.
To
that end, the foundation seeks to invest in pre-conditions for long-term change
such as resident empowerment and agency, social cohesion, narrative change, and
equitable capital improvements. The foundation will support arts and community
development organizations and projects with the potential to advance innovative
and creative approaches to community development and inclusionary practices and
policies.
Projects
receiving priority include those that position arts, culture, and
community-engaged design as a central element of community development and
planning; adopt an explicit equity lens that seeks to dismantle structural
inequities; empower residents with low incomes to advocate for and lead change
in their community; take an asset-based approach when working in historically
marginalized communities; promote models of distributed leadership and wealth;
reinforce collaborations and equal partnerships across multiple sectors;
advance just practices and principles in the creative placemaking field; and create career pathways and learning
opportunities for NextGen creative placemaking
leaders of color.
Closing
Date:
January
31, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://kresge.org/programs/arts-culture/increase-creative-capacity-shape-healthier-neighborhoods
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