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Rip Rapson
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Leading @kresgefdn efforts to expand equity and opportunity for low-income people in cities across American through grantmaking and social investing.
Southeast Michigan
Joined November 2011
Joel Fleishman was one of the most extraordinary people to have graced #philanthropy over the last fifty years. The world has lost a transcendent talent and scholar, an incomparably warm and generous soul, and a dear friend. I will miss him greatly.
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RT @WendyLJack: By locating the MI CLIMATE INVESTMENT HUB @Newlab in #Detroit, the @kresgefdn is a partner in helping to ensure that the co…
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RT @mikemcafee06: I recently spoke at @kresgefdn's Our Urban Future symposium, and I want to emphasize that we are the liberators we’ve bee…
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A recent @crainsdetroit article on #innovation hubs describes the shared overarching aspiration to promote regional entrepreneurialism. Lying at the heart of all this is the aspiration to create a more interconnected ecology of entrepreneurial energies.
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RT @UrbanConsulate: “Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future?” Join us Oct 30 in #Detroit for an eve…
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RT @riffcitystrat: The @kresgefdn is investing $3M to support Detroit high school grads attending HBCUs through scholarships & career readi…
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We could not be more thrilled that the @cfsem has named Nicole Sherard-Freeman as its new president. She will be succeeding Ric Devore, who has served with deep distinction for nearly three years and who has decided to retire. Congratulations Nicole!
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RT @kresgefdn: The impact stories trace the foundation’s origins, the 80+ years of capital challenge grantmaking & the shift to today’s wor…
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