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Rip Rapson

  • President, The Kresge Foundation
Michigan
As seen in: CNN, Fast Company, The Hill, Brookings Institution, Detroit Free Press, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News, San Francisco Chronicle, Stanford Social Innovation Review, NewsBreak and
Leading @kresgefdn efforts to expand equity and opportunity for low-income people in cities across American through grantmaking and social investing.
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When Federal Policy Retreats, Local Action Must Lead Rip Rapson President and CEO, The Kresge Foundation Shamar Bibbins Managing Director, Environment Program, The Kresge Foundation

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By Rip Rapson, Shamar Bibbins, Lauren Chan
| Center for Effective Philantropy
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this year that it was reversing the Endangerment Finding — the long-standing federal policy establishing that greenhouse gases pose a clear and present danger to public health — climate deniers declared it a “total victory.” The reality is, however, just the opposite: it was both a clarification of the enormous cost of the constricting impulses of scientific skepticism and a crystallization of the imperative of enhancing...
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A Conversation With Valerie Jarrett

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By Anjelica Miller, Valerie Jarrett, Rip Rapson, Suzanne Shank
| Detroit Regional Chamber
From the beginning of her career as a working mother in local Chicago politics up to being a critical part of former President Barack Obama’s administration and now being the Chief Executive Officer of his Foundation, Jarrett has had many successes working with and among all different business and community sectors.
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Opinion: Three key strategies for localities to maximize a surge of federal investment

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By Rip Rapson, Alan Berube
| NewsBreak
As we enter another presidential election year, policymakers, media and the public will increasingly focus on what the campaign and associated partisan jockeying in Washington indicate for the future of our economy and society. Importantly, Washington isn’t making most of the decisions about how exactly these dollars will be spent.
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