Strong Local Economies Grants Descriptions
Rising Tide Capital
Jersey City, NJ | $250,000 (24 months)
To build and enhance Rising Tide Capital’s capacity to identify and grow its highest-potential entrepreneurs through intensive, targeted services focused on business growth and job creation.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Social Enterprise Alliance
Minnetonka, MN | $250,000 (24 months)
To ignite the growth and vitality of the Social Enterprise Alliance's local chapters, which drive social enterprises as a building block of strong local economies.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Social Enterprise Alliance
Minnetonka, MN | $15,000
To support the 2013 Social Enterprise Summit.
Category: Discretionary
Social Justice Infrastructure Funders
Washington, DC | $15,000
To support ' Social Justice Infrastructure Funders’ ongoing efforts to engage social-justice minded philanthropic professionals in addressing gaps in social justice infrastructure.
Category: Discretionary
Solar Richmond
Richmond, CA | $170,000 (24 months)
To support the continued development of Solar Richmond's worker-owned cooperative.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Sustainable Business Education Initiative, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA | $225,000 (36 months)
To expand the Sustainable Business Network’s work in green water infrastructure through its industry partnership, Business United for Conservation and through a first of its kind Community of Practice for green infrastructure companies. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL | $85,000
To provide planning assistance for an initiative aimed at using the University's purchasing power to build the capacity of locally-owned and operated small businesses and create new cooperatively-owned neighborhood businesses.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA | $15,000
To support the development of a model procurement policy that incorporates clean technology, job creation, job quality, and workforce development criteria into a best value transit procurement policy.
Category: Discretionary
Urban Habitat
Oakland, CA | $125,000
To support and expand Urban Habitat's Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute, which recruits, trains, and places leaders from low-income communities and communities of color on priority boards and commissions.
Category: Others
Urban Innovation21
Pittsburgh, PA | $250,000 (24 months)
To include underserved, communities of color in Pittsburgh's regional economic prosperity through business development and acceleration.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration