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The Foundation Presidents’ Roundtable Series: Rip Rapson, President and CEO of The Kresge Foundation

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Wed Dec 10, 2014
Washington, DC

Date

Wed Dec 10, 2014
7:00am – 8:30am EST

Location

Washington, DC, United States
Aspen Institute
One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 700

Contact

    [email protected]
    202.736.2299

Hosts

  1. Philanthropy and Social Innovation

Rip Rapson, attorney and expert in urban policy, is president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, a $3.7 billion national, private foundation based in Detroit. Rapson came to Kresge in 2006 and led the philanthropy in a multiyear transition to expand and recalibrate its grantmaking. Strategically focused programs emerged: arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and community development in Detroit. Each program seeks to expand opportunities in America’s cities so that vulnerable people can lead self-determined lives and access the economic mainstream.

Rapson has helped lead a partnership of private, public and philanthropic funders to revitalize the city of Detroit, including the construction of the first leg of a light rail line, M-1 Rail. He worked with other philanthropic leaders to create a $366 million fund — Foundation for Detroit’s Future — to blunt the impact of municipal bankruptcy on city of Detroit pensioners and safeguard city-owned holdings at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Moderator: Jane Wales, vice president, The Aspen Institute

Rip Rapson, attorney and expert in urban policy, is president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, a $3.7 billion national, private foundation based in Detroit.n/a