Strong Local Economies Grants Descriptions
Center for Family Life
Brooklyn, NY | $275,000 (36 months)
To support the New York City-wide expansion of Center for Family Life's Cooperative Development Project, including program evaluation and community of practice components.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Center for Labor and Community Research
Chicago, IL | $150,000
To support and expand the Center for Labor and Community Research’s Manufacturing Renaissance Council network, a national coalition of regional, public-private partnerships working to build strong and sustainable local economies.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
Center for Popular Democracy
Brooklyn, NY | $60,000
To support the growth of Local Progress, the national municipal policy network of local elected officials, in order to build movement infrastructure that helps improve the quality of low-wage jobs in cities and win progressive policy victories.
Category: Others
Center for Popular Democracy
Brooklyn, NY | $100,000
To support the Center for Popular Democracy's role in the expansion of Local Progress, a new network of municipal elected officials working together to pursue local policy solutions that promote equity and sustainability.
Category: Others
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
San Francisco, CA | $75,000
To support advocacy efforts to secure a First Source Hiring agreement that ensures permanent quality jobs created through economic development activity are accessible to local residents.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Common Counsel Foundation
Oakland, CA | $15,000
To support the webinar series 'Weathering the Storms: How to Protect Your Organization Against Political Attacks.'
Category: Discretionary
Community Law Center
Baltimore, MD | $10,000
To support the creation of an education initiative aimed at positioning community benefits agreements as positive for all Baltimore community stakeholders.
Category: Discretionary
Community LIFT
Memphis, TN | $15,000
To strengthen and formalize Community LIFT's coalition, and establish a framework for connecting resource-poor city neighborhoods to economic strategies designed to retain and/or attract businesses.
Category: Discretionary
Coro New York Leadership Center
New York, NY | $100,000
To support the scaling up of the Neighborhood Leadership program to increase the capacity of Business Improvement Districts serving low to moderate income communities.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Corporation for Enterprise Development
Washington, DC | $300,000 (36 months)
General support to the Corporation for Enterprise Development's (CFED) work to align, connect and integrate critical asset-building policies and strategies with efforts to improve job quality and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration