The Kresge, Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family, and Hudson-Webber foundations have announced a three-year collaborative initiative that will commit more than $12 million to 78 arts organizations in the Detroit metro area. 

The Detroit Arts Support (DAS) initiative will support general operations and enable grantees to have a one-on-one consulting session with TDC, a nonprofit finance firm that analyzed the financial statements of all applicants. Consultants can share insights about each organization’s financial status and planning opportunities and discuss sector trends. Grant recipients range from small to large organizations across the region, including Detroit Opera, Huron Valley Council for the Arts, and Sphinx Organization. 

The participating foundations shared a single application and review process before making independent decisions. The partnership streamlined the application process for nonprofit arts organizations while offering shared learning opportunities and improving systems for data collection and analysis necessary for the participating foundations to make funding decisions.

“Metro Detroit’s array of arts and cultural organizations is one of our greatest strengths, one of the keys to our resilience,” said managing director of the Kresge Foundation's Detroit Program Wendy Lewis Jackson. “We seek to support them for their unique roles in anchoring us to tradition and opening windows on our future possibilities.”

For a complete list of recipients, see the Kresge Foundation website. 

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