Strong Local Economies Grants Descriptions
New York Community Trust
New York, NY | $75,000
To advance strategic transit investments and equitable development in transit corridors in the metro New York Tri-State region and nationally by supporting year six of the One Region Funders' Group. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Next City
Philadelphia, PA | $75,000
To build a sustained dialogue about equitable economic development strategies through a daily online column and three long-form investigative articles.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Nexus Community Partners
St. Paul, MN | $200,000 (24 months)
To identify, prepare and support people of color and low income people in leadership roles through the Twin Cities Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Partnership for Working Families
Washington, DC | $300,000 (36 months)
To support the Partnership for Working Families' efforts to grow and adapt the community benefits agreement model, while maintaining the original concept's integrity.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
People United for Sustainable Housing, Inc.
Buffalo, NY | $11,000
To support the Economic Democracy Summit, sponsored by PUSH and MIT CoLab to foster an open dialogue about the opportunities and challenges that community organizations and policy analysts encounter as they pursue economic democracy initiatives. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Discretionary
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates
Philadelphia, PA | $60,000 (24 months)
Support for Art Education for Teens; ARTrepreneurs; and the Restored Spaces Initiative, a partnership with city and community stakeholders to foster environmental infrastructure projects at schools and recreation centers. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Thriving Cultures Program.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Positive Futures Network (YES!)
Bainbridge Island, WA | $150,000 (24 months)
To enable YES! to expand its solution-based journalism and outreach to heighten public awareness of exemplary innovations, businesses, policies, and community organizing that build strong, inclusive, sustainable, local economies.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Public Health Solutions
New York, NY | $75,000
To develop a research plan measuring the economic and environmental impact of school food procurement changes generated by the Upper Midwest Regional Learning Lab. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund
San Francisco, CA | $25,000
To popularize 'American Dream 2.0 solutions'—collaborative, sharing, and other alternative business innovations that help people generate income and drive economic activity outside of the traditional corporate structure.
Category: Discretionary
Reconnecting America
Washington, DC | $7,500
To support the organization's development and strategy refinement effort. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Discretionary